Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aspiring to follow in the footsteps of Brooklyn-born Matador Sidney Franklin, young Julian Faria, also of Brooklyn, made his debut as a bullfighter in Reynosa, Mexico. As his first bull charged, a horn caught in the buttons of his pink, skintight pants, ripped them open. The crowd laughed. Commented an aficionado: "Ay! Esos tipos de Brooklyn...
Last week the Brooklyn Dodgers faced the Cards again, and this time the pennant -and the Dodgers' none-too-healthy 4½-game lead-was at stake. The Cards, somewhat housebroken descendants of the rough-&-tumble Gashouse Gang, were lighting back, late and hard. In the second inning, Jackie Robinson was spiked again -this time by trigger-tempered Catcher Joe Garagiola...
Turnstile Sociology. Jackie's daring on the baselines has been matched by shrewd Branch Rickey's daring on the color line. Rickey gave Robinson his chance. As boss of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Rickey is a mixture of Phineas T. Barnum and Billy Sunday, who is prone to talk piously of the larger and higher implications of what he is doing. There were large implications, of course, in signing Jackie Robinson, but the influence on the box office was a lot easier to figure. Jackie Robinson has pulled about $150,000 in extra admissions this season...
...Montreal had been won over, but that cut no ice in Flatbush. Branch Rickey, who knows his fellow citizens, set out to soften them up. He organized a group of Brooklyn's leading Negro citizens, including one judge, into a formal "how-to-handle-Robinson committee." In every other city in the National League, Rickey set up similar committees. The Brooklyn committee drew up a list of do's and don'ts a yard long; Jackie's deportment in public & private was to be supervised as thoroughly as Princess Elizabeth...
Jackie lives a long way from Harlem's high life, in a five-room, second-floor flat on Brooklyn's McDonough Street, in a Negro neighborhood. His name is not on the door, and he knows few of his neighbors. How he feels about them shows through the guarded brevity of his speech, which sometimes carries a suggestion of dryness. Says he: "I don't want to bother with too many people who want to be my relatives...