Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...essential part of the act is to rile the umpire, and in doing so to rile the other team. This is not considered out-of-the-way in Brooklyn, where it was a custom to chant Three Blind Mice as the umpires walked on field...
...land beyond the Brooklyn Bridge, where 2,800,000 real human beings live among baby carriages, delicatessens, and streets of all-alike houses, spring was beginning to stir. Robins and forsythia blossoms appeared in Prospect Park. From Red Hook to Canarsie the sound of baseball bats flung to the pavement and the scuffing of feet skedaddling after fly balls could be heard in nearly every block. At Ebbets Field, the infield shone emerald-green for next week's opening game. Everything was in order but the Dodgers-and because of them there was little joy in Brooklyn...
First, or Sixth? This week, rednecked from Cuban sun, the question-mark Brooklyn Dodgers rolled north by ship and Pullman. They looked neither bad nor good, only perplexed. One of their deepest perplexities was the conduct of their manager, Leo Durocher. A bridegroom for the third time, he was acting as if he had never been on a honeymoon before. Some days he hadn't even showed up for practice. Other days, chewing gum thoughtfully, he spent most of the time gazing up at his screen-actress bride, Laraine Day, sitting in a box and chewing...
What was to become of the Brooklyn Dodgers? Sports-page experts hazarded guesses of anywhere from first to sixth place. Those St. Louis Cardinals had everybody wide-eyed. And the Braves would be hard to stop. As opening day drew near, the Brooklyn Dodgers had become the mystery team of the National League. And most of the mystery involved the rough-&-tough Leo Durocher, highest-paid manager in baseball, natty and noisy friend of the notorious, and great field general of America's national game...
Saul Mariaschin, shortstop for the team, backed up the Lip. "As a native of Brooklyn," he asserted, "I naturally formed an attachment for the Dodgers, but Chandler's action certainly didn't help the game of baseball. Leo's a great manager anywhere...