Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even. In Kankakee, Ill., Doris Keller dramatically tried to get even with her husband for blackening her eye, succeeded only in getting sick when her solid base of beers neutralized the poison she swallowed...
...ball field-Brooklyn expects to hold its own. The great moments in Brooklyn's rowdy baseball tradition have usually been accidental: the time Hack Wilson was hit on the head with a fly ball while sassing the bleachers; the time three Dodgers slid into the same base at the same time; the day Babe Herman almost started a fire because he forgot to douse his cigar before putting it in his pocket. Under Durocher, such rowdyism is a deliberate way of life...
...progress. One voice said: "Dixie Walker ain't hittin', huh?" A dime bounced on the bar and a voice replied: "He'll hit ... but whaddya get from Durocher? He ain't lookin' over the rookies. Who's gonna be on first? Third base's wide open. Only three positions sewed down. The jerk! Gimme a libation, Eddie...
...players can do in any situation. He yanks pitchers quicker than any other manager, and the results usually bear out his judgment. Pete Reiser stole home so often on Durocher's orders (seven times in 1946) that rival pitchers got the jitters every time he reached third base. Brooklyn scored more runs last season on squeeze bunts than any other club. Says Leo: "I play hunches . . . maybe other managers are afraid to take chances...
...University moguls kept their thoughts to themselves, undergraduates registered mixed emotions. Tom Connally, manager of the Crimson nine, after expressing doubt that Leo would accept the job, came up with the newest interpretation. "If we get Leo on the first base coaching box and maybe Laraine Day at third, we better give our own coaches ironclad contracts or they'll get squeezed out of their position...