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Last week the Brooklyn Dodgers faced the Cards again, and this time the pennant -and the Dodgers' none-too-healthy 4½-game lead-was at stake. The Cards, somewhat housebroken descendants of the rough-&-tumble Gashouse Gang, were lighting back, late and hard. In the second inning, Jackie...
Turnstile Sociology. Jackie's daring on the baselines has been matched by shrewd Branch Rickey's daring on the color line. Rickey gave Robinson his chance. As boss of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Rickey is a mixture of Phineas T. Barnum and Billy Sunday, who is prone to talk...
Wherever the Dodgers have played, Negroes have turned out in force to see their hero. In Chicago, where Negro fans sported Jackie Robinson buttons, Jackie's fans came early and brought their lunch. In Jim Crowish St. Louis, where Negroes must sit in the right-field pavilion, the Robinson...
Draft Dodgers. In the diamond hierarchy, the P.C.L. has an unusual status. The 16 major-league clubs own or control 70% of the nation's 326 clubs in organized baseball. But the AAA coast league is 87½% independent (the one exception is Phil Wrigley's Los Angeles...
Seals' fancy, 32,000-seat park could easily be double-decked if the crowds should warrant it. Polling scores of fans, Sports Editor Curley Grieve of Hearst's Examiner found them all for big-league ball. Preferably, they would like to see the Seals competing with the Yankees...