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Dan Bankhead had a fine old Southern name, a good fast ball and a fair curve. For the Memphis Red Sox in the Negro American League, he had won ten games against five losses. Branch Rickey personally scouted him and decided he could help the Dodgers.
Whether or not Bankhead would bolster the Dodgers' sagging pitching staff might take some time to tell. In his 3⅓inning relief stint against the Pirates-on a day when Kiner & Co. really had their hitting shoes on-he gave up 10 hits and 8 runs. He couldn...
Bat met ball with a crack that sent 32,000 Brooklyn fans into an uproar. It was the league-leading Dodgers' first home game in three weeks, they led 1 to 0 and First Baseman Jackie Robinson had lined a drive to left center that looked like a sure...
Besides nine men on the field, Dodger opponents have to reckon with a snarling, hooting, heckling row of benchwarmers. Said Manager Burt Shotton: "I'll tell you how we won the St. Louis series. The bench won it." What the exuberant Dodgers seemed to need is not so much...
Age & Respect. Shotton, a kind of Flatbush Cincinnatus, was called from his Florida farm last spring by Boss Branch Rickey to take charge of the Dodgers, after Manager Leo Durocher was suspended for a year (TIME, April 21). Shotton, semi-retired after a long career as outfielder, coach, manager and...