Word: pinelli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talked like bickering schoolboys, the Dodgers played like pros from the first game. Even as they finally lost one last week, they were so hot that the Giants who beat them (5-4) needed a couple of Willie Mays's classiest catches and a couple of Umpire Babe Pinelli's doubtful decisions to cool them...
...fourth inning, with the Dodgers coasting along on a 2-0 lead, Left Fielder Sandy Amoros raced home from second on a blooping single. Monte Irvin's peg beat him to the plate. Umpire Pinelli spread his arms, palms down. Safe? Leo Durocher, the Giants' manager, boiled from the bench. Unaccountably astonished because Durocher and 27,297 fans had misunderstood him, Pinelli jerked his thumb over his shoulder and allowed that Amoros was out. Durocher simmered down. Dodger Manager Alston kicked up a brief fuss just for the record...
...third-one out. At the plate, Jackie Robinson laid down a neat bunt to squeeze Runner Don Zimmer home. But Zimmer hesitated on the base path, playing it safe. Steaming across the infield, First Baseman Whitey Lockman scooped up the ball and whipped it home. "Yer out!" screamed Pinelli. "Yer crazy!" yowled Alston. And with half his team's help, he played some colorful variations on the same theme. "You too," said Pinelli, and Alston departed for the evening...
People Unadulterated. In discussing the faiths they live by, barely half of the contributors to This I Believe found it necessary to mention "God" and only ten owned up to having any formal religious belief. Among them: Poet Robert Hillyer, Educator Elizabeth Gray Vining, National League Umpire Ralph ("Babe") Pinelli. (Said Umpire Pinelli: "I believe in my God, my family, my country and baseball...