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Baseball managers like Paul Richards of Baltimore, Casey Stengel of the Yanks and Bob Bragan of Pittsburgh could forget more about baseball than "Bird-lips" Tebbetts will ever know...
...chess and bird watching. Last year the team showed some improvement, but the old man had had enough. He resigned, became an offstage adviser, and new men came in to finish the job. Joe L. Brown, 37, son of Comedian Joe E. Brown, became general manager, and brash Bobby Bragan, 37, came from Hollywood to manage the team on the field. Both were Rickey's selections...
Bushes to Bigger. By this spring, after a couple of smart trades, the Pirates were no longer a band of courteous sea scouts. Bobby Bragan had been a flamboyant manager-clown back in the Pacific Coast League, once sent out a bat boy to coach third base. But up with the Pirates, Busher Bragan went big league, soon had his kids scrapping like old pros. When Slugger Dale Long hurt his leg trying to take an extra base, Bragan was delighted. "You know how he pulled that muscle?" he demanded happily. "He got it sliding hard into third, that...
...Pirates three times-once as a left-handed catcher-and finally caught on last year. Not all fans and sportswriters give Rickey credit for building this year's team, and they cite his rubber-ball bouncing of Long's career as evidence. Late-Bloomer Long gives Manager Bragan a big share of the credit for his sudden development: "I play good for this guy because I like to play...
...Beginning early in an effort to rejuvenate a last-place ball club, the Pittsburgh Pirates named ex-Dodger Bobby Bragan, 37, to replace Manager Fred Haney, fired at the end of this year's disastrous season. An infielder who switched to catching while playing with the Phillies in 1942, Bragan moved to the Dodgers in 1943 and hung on until 1948. Since then, he has been a minor-league manager in Fort Worth and Hollywood...