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This year, Rickey's Dodgers, winners of the 1949 National League pennant, were picked by the experts to run away with the pennant once more. Instead, in second place last week, they were taking the dust of the pennant-bound Phillies. Last week, also, a secret was out. Rickey...
Philadclphia's Whiz Kids won the National League pennant yesterday by turning back the Brooklyn Dodgers, 4 to 1, in a 10-inning thriller at Ebbetts Field. Outfielder Dick Sisler broke up the contest with a three-run homer in the top of the tenth.
*Which for 16 years (1929-45) helped run the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, as one of the executors of the estate of the late baseball magnate Charles H. Ebbets. After the hapless Dodgers had wallowed in the second division for five years straight, the bank hired Larry MacPhail as general...
Bunched back of the Phillies were the Brooklyn Dodgers, who started off like runaways and then, with mediocre pitching, became the season's biggest disappointment; the fast-moving Boston Braves, supported by outstanding pitching from Warren Spahn, Johnny Sain and Vern Bickford; the St. Louis Cardinals, held down by...
*Said Dodger Manager Burt Shotton: "Well, I guess that disposes of the Giants. I don't think we'll hear much more about them passing us this year." Retorted Giant Manager Leo Durocher, when he heard about it: "So the Dodgers have disposed of the Giants? Nuts to...