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. . . My nomination is Mr. Burt Shotton, manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers. In demonstrating that the vulgar crudities . . . are not, essentially, an integral part of a winning baseball team, Mr. Shotton has given a renewed respect, a freshened impulse, to our National Pastime.
As a vaudeville performer, Jackie Robinson thought, he would make a good first baseman. Explained Jackie: "I can't sing or dance." But at Harlem's Apollo Theater and Washington's Howard, Robbie picked up more money in two weeks than the $5,000 Branch Rickey paid...
Branch Rickey (above left), owner and president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, confers with Varsity football coach Dick Harlow after both men addressed the Varsity Club dinner yesterday evening.
2. Brooklyn Dodgers.
The end of the series also left the Dodgers with a managerial problem. Rowdy Leo ("The Lip") Durocher, whose suspension for a year from baseball was partly brought on by Larry MacPhail (TIME. April 21), had served his sentence. Boss Rickey had to choose between him and 62-year-old...