Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CHARLES GERSTEN Brooklyn...
...cool of night had descended on Ebbets Field; it was only 94° in the dusk. In a box on the 50-yard line sat old Branch Rickey, in his shirtsleeves, peering disconsolately at the half-empty house (16,411). His baseball Brooklyn Dodgers were packing in the fans; this was Rickey's first game as owner of a pro football team -also known as the Brooklyn Dodgers. All afternoon, ticket cancellations had poured in. Even three of Rickey's own guests begged off. Snorted Branch disgustedly: "Who ever heard of canceling a football game because...
...Brooklyn Dodgers walked victorious off the field one night, because everybody on both sides had forgotten an old baseball rule. In the ninth inning, with two out and the tying Pittsburgh Pirate runs on base, Brooklyn's Manager Burt Shotton put in a relief pitcher, then yanked him with the count only three-and-one. At the time, nobody objected. But in the clubhouse after the game, an ex-sportwriter advised Pittsburgh's Manager Billy Meyer to protest: the Dodgers had violated Rule 17 (a relief pitcher must handle at least one batter). Confessed Manager Meyer: "I pulled...
...Russell. "When you go back to Prague," he rasped, "tell your employers that the next time we have an international congress of philosophy we'd prefer that they send someone not so crude." Looking like an indignant owl, New York University's Sidney Hook turned his brisk Brooklyn accent against Kolman: "You talk about economic democracy [in Russia]. You mean economic equality. But there is an equality in freedom and equality in slavery...
Rags to Riches. In the National League, the race was just as tight, the scrambling just as fierce. Back in July, the first-place Boston Braves had a comfortable six-game margin. The embarrassed Brooklyn Dodgers, last year's champions, grumbled in last place. Fourteen days later the Dodgers, already on the way back, switched from loud Manager Leo Durocher to patient Burt Shotton, and kept going. Last week, in an Ebbets Field doubleheader that had some of the tenseness and all the excitement of a World Series, the rags-to-riches Bums beat the Braves in the opener...