Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came to Brooklyn the following afternoon. Playing like champions for once, the inspired Bums manhandled the Boston Braves. For a few happy hours, they were ahead. But that night the Cards' Harry ("The Cat") Brecheen beat the Cubs for the second time in a week. It was all tied up again, with a single game apiece to play...
...clubs opposing Brooklyn and St. Louis on the final day-Boston and Chicago-had a score of their own to settle: separated by only one game, they were fighting for third-place money...
...eyes moved back & forth like those of spectators at a tennis match. Afternoons, they focused on Brooklyn's Ebbets Field; evenings, on St. Louis' Sportsman's Park. Home and office radios blared play-by-play descriptions; earnest discussions went on at every street corner and water cooler. The Dodgers and the Cards were going down to the wire in the closest of all National League pennant races...
Pain & Joy. In Brooklyn, it was an agonizing week. On the steps of Borough Hall, the Rev. Benney S. C. Benson knelt and intoned: "Oh Lord, their chances don't look so good right now, but everyone is praying for the Bums to win. We ask you not to give . . . St. Louis any better break than you give us. . . ." That afternoon Leo ("The Lip") Durocher used eight Dodger pitchers-a league record-in an unsuccessful attempt to beat the Phillies. Next day, star Outfielder Pete Reiser broke a leg sliding into base, while 32,000 Flatbush faithfuls groaned...
Boston's Mort Cooper, onetime St. Louis standby, shut out the Dodgers, 4-0. Just before that Brooklyn agony was over, an incongruous cheer went up. The Ebbets Field fans, many of them armed with portable radios to keep track of enemy operations, had heard that the Cubs had scored five runs and gone ahead of the Cards. An hour later it was over: the Cards and Dodgers stood even, each with 96 won, 58 lost. This week they would start all over again, in the first two-out-of-three playoff in big-league history...