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Last week, as the 1941 baseball season was about to begin, baseball experts were perversely all agog about its far-off end. Some of the best dope available came from an exciting dress rehearsal at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field. There 48,000 jabbering fans turned out to watch the...
The Dodgers are generally rated as having an excellent chance to win the National League pennant. In four previous exhibition games this year the Yankees had been licked by the Dodgers. "The Yanks may be the best team in the American League," chorused Brooklynites last week, "but if they played...
Rival fans, accustomed to Brooklyn's bragging, usually laugh it off. But this year there is no laughing off the Dodgers. Even Bill Terry, manager of the Brooklyn-hating New York Giants, admitted last week that the Dodgers are the team to beat in the National League. Bolstered by...
Since last fall the Dodgers have acquired: 1) Fireball Pitcher Kirby Higbe, who won 14 games for the tail-end Phillies' last year; 2) onetime Cardinal Mickey Owen, a Grade A catcher; 3) onetime Pirate Paul Waner, seasoned outfielder; 3) Second Baseman Alex Kampouris, who led the International League...
Rizzuto's rise to baseball's top crust has been almost as spectacular as his playing. Son of a $20-a-week Manhattan dock worker, he captained his high-school team, was picked up by Yankee Scout Paul Krichell four years ago-after the Dodgers had turned him...