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...Brooklyn Dodgers gave 27-year-old Negro Pitcher Dan Bankhead a brief trial last year, sent him back to a Dodger farm...
...Last Antony and Cleopatra, in 1937, ran for five performances, was greeted by Critic John Mason Brown: "Tallulah Bankhead barged down the Nile last night as Cleopatra-and sank...
...swelled to more than 20 million. The mailbag bulged to 10,000 letters a day. The March of Dimes (a donation with a letter is suggested as the price of admission to the contest) collected something like $125,000. Listeners brightly guessed Elsa Maxwell, Maude Adams, Sister Kenny, Tallulah Bankhead, Mary Pickford, Mary Garden. But still nobody guessed right. Last week Miss Hush tried to spill the beans...
Last week, in his Brooklyn debut, big (6 ft. 3 in.) Dan Bankhead, fifth Negro player to reach the majors, winged Pirate Outfielder Wally Westlake with a fast ball. A few breaths were tight-held-this might be the "incident" that many baseball men had feared. But Westlake trotted casually down to first. It was clear that, within the space of a single season, fans and players alike were beginning to take Negro players for granted...
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't ever do much worse than that, and he looked as though he could do quite a lot better. His batting, on the other hand, could not be improved on: his first time at bat, Bankhead fouled off several pitches, then banged a home run into the left field...