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Even the most loyal of Ebbets Field fans has a hard time forgiving the Brooklyn Dodgers' worst habit: just about this time of year, when they seem to be heading for the pennant, they have a tendency to run out of steam. Last year, as in 1942, it was...
In such a midseason series last year, the Cards started their pennant march. This year, playing before the biggest St. Louis crowds of the season, the Dodgers were almost as hot as the 100° weather. In the second game the Dodgers went into the ninth inning with a 10...
To Dodger fans that game looked like the season's Gettysburg, complete with Pickett's charge, valiant but in vain. The Dodgers swept the series, and ran their winning streak to 13 games before losing three straight to the Cubs. At week's end they were still...
Youth & Heckling. In the unpredictable and uproarious National League, the Dodgers were by no means as sure a thing as the Yankees (13½ games ahead) were in the American League. But for a team that had seemed inexperienced and inept in spring training, they were playing heads-up ball...
But the ball struck a railing in the center-field boxes and bounced back-clearly not an automatic home run. Northey was thrown out at home, retiring the side. Running at full speed, he obviously could have made it. Cardinal Manager Eddie Dyer protested Beans's bum steer, but...