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Basemen & Bailing Wire. In the National League, there was such a shortage of outstanding individual talent that no less than six clubs had a fighting chance for the pennant. The Brooklyn Dodgers were sifting and resifting young farmhands in a frantic search for a first-baseman who could hit. The...
Italy, by far the cheapest for travel (a good meal costs only a dollar), was also anxious to please. Though the prim government forbade Italians to wear two-piece bathing suits or abbreviated trunks on the public beaches, Americans were free to wear what they wanted at such international resorts...
"A circus, ain't it?" grinned Umpire Jocko Conlan as he looked over the Brooklyn Dodgers' training camp at Vero Beach, Fla. Some observers disagreed: it reminded them more of Willow Run or an Army basic training center. Whatever the word for Vero Beach, Dodger Boss Branch Rickey...
Why Bring Players? For more advanced batting practice, Dodgertown had three mechanical pitching machines, supposed to throw the ball at just the desired speed and-over & over again-at just the right spot. The Dodgers called one "The Bazooka," another "Iron Mike," the third "Overhand Joe." Last week Rickey introduced...
Over the whole regiment scene last week sat Branch Rickey himself. He and his coaches were prepared to hear some scoffing. In fact, Rickeyman Fresco Thompson, onetime Dodger infielder and now assistant director of the Dodgers minor league operations, himself made the crack that traditionalists had been groping for. "Next...