Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...held in higher esteem by his team mates than strong-arm Ralph Branca, the Dodgers' only 20-game winner. And of course there is Dixie Walker, the "Pee-pul's Cherce," who at 36 still hits when it will do the most good-with men on base. In a locker-room gabfest a few weeks ago, the Dodgers agreed among themselves that Jackie Robinson was the team's third most valuable player-behind Edwards and Reese...
...Help at First. Branch Rickey's do's & don'ts strangely enough, did not include any instructions on how to play baseball. Although Jackie had played second base or shortstop all his life, he was handed a first-baseman's mitt and sent out to sink or swim at a new position -first base. Being right-handed was no help: first base is a left-hander's position. It is easier for a left-hander to throw from first to any other base, and easier to pick a man off the bag. Only...
...Jackie's R.B.I, and grumble that Jackie can't hit in a tight spot. But as the club's No. 2 hitter in the lineup, Jackie's job is either to push along the lead-off man by a sacrifice, or to get on base himself. Jackie's R.B.I, total (44) is higher than most No. 2 hitters'-including Philadelphia's Harry Walker, who is baseball's current batting king with an average...
Timing & Tricks. By now, Robbie has carefully catalogued pitchers' weaknesses. He has, for example, discovered that when Boston's Si Johnson crooks his neck in a certain way, Si has stopped worrying about the base-runner and is about to pitch. This discovery gives Jackie a split-second head start on his way to second...
...similar mixture of timing and careful study enabled him to steal home last month against the New York Giants. (It was the second time this year he had pulled off the most spectacular base-running trick of them all.) Standing on third, Jackie carefully watched Pitcher Joe Beggs' windup. Robinson ran in with the pitch as far as he dared, then slammed on the brakes and began to count: "One-two-three-four. . . ." He ticked off how long it took Beggs to get the ball across the plate. Satisfied that he could have made it in that time, Jackie...