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For 21 long years, Brooklynites had waited for this moment. Their beloved Dodgers ("Our Bums") had just clinched the National League pennant in Boston. Many another baseball town has gone wild over a pennant victory. But Brooklyn's faithful fans-victims of an inferiority complex provoked by the pompous...
Brooklyn's faithful paid them no never mind. Four days later, after the last game of the regular baseball season, they turned out, not 10,000 but 1,000,000 strong, to march down Flatbush Avenue behind their heroes in a gigantic Victory Parade. They were even sure the...
Them Bums. The Brooklyns are comforted by the memory of how Cincinnati's Pitchers Bucky Walters and Paul Derringer defeated the power-hitting Detroit Tigers in last year's World Series. This year the Dodgers have the best pitching pair in the major leagues: calm 33-year-old...
Besides Camilli, Brooklyn has Rookie Pete Reiser, its fabulous $100 find, who has outhit (.343) every batter in the National League; scrappy Joe Medwick (.318), a good man to have when the chips are down; and dead-eye Dixie Walker, a consistent .300 hitter who has broken up many a...
Still Brooklyn's front office remembering what happened in 1930 when the Dodgers tumbled from first to fourth place in the season's last twelve days, refused to print World Series tickets. Equally skeptical was Baseball Tsar Judge Landis. Calling a meeting, he set a date for a...