Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frankie Frisch, 51, baseball's old "Fordham Flash," is an ingenious man and a highly vocal competitor. Once, while managing Pittsburgh, he tried to get himself thrown out of a hopelessly lost ball game in Brooklyn so that he could hustle up to New Rochelle, N.Y. and tend his flower garden. "No you don't, Frisch," said the umpire he was sassing. "Get back on the bench and go home with the rest of us." When Frisch was running the celebrated Gashouse Gang in St. Louis, Dizzy Dean used to needle him "just to hear that Dutchman roar...
...naked quality, Lord, 47-year-old veteran radio producer (Seth Parker; Gang Busters; Mr. District Attorney; We, the People), combs New York City for likely-looking characters. His scouts prowl the Bowery and Broadway, hang around fight arenas and ballparks, wander Brooklyn and Harlem slums. The people they find-including rum-soaked derelicts, strapping longshoremen, street-corner evangelists, wispy old ladies-become the actors in The Black Robe (Wed. 8:30 p.m. E.D.T., NBC-TV), highstrung Phillips Lord's first TV venture...
...Brooklyn, his big bat thumped out two home runs to knock the Dodgers out of first place (6-3). Next night, Musial's 14th-inning triple with two men on base upset the Dodgers again (7-4). In Boston, he connected for home run No. 9 to help beat the Braves, 8-1. Musial's batting average jumped 39 points in one week-to a healthy .297-and the Cardinals were within striking distance of the National League lead...
Kaye, born in Brooklyn 36 years ago, is mobbed by adoring throngs. So many fans phone him at his Savoy suite that a special office had to be set up to handle some 52 calls an hour. His London appearance last year brought 70,000 fan letters in seven weeks; this year the total ran over 100,000. For those who cannot see the real Kaye, there is a wax model in Madame Tussaud's gallery of the great...
...Brooklyn (Minner) 20, Cincinnati...