Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brooklyn 5, Chicago...
Chicago 3, Brooklyn...
Chicago 6, Brooklyn...
...Brooklyn, rough-tough Johnny Torrio, ex-Chicago bootleg king and Al Capone's sometime mentor, who quit the rackets after he was shot up in 1925, heaved a big sigh of relief. At his solicitation, the FBI had finally rounded up two men accused of sending him a threatening letter last September...
...surprises, as usual, popped out of Branch Rickey's Brooklyn surprise box. First, a last-minute switch nudged aging Arky Vaughan off third base, and gave the job to scrawny John ("Spider") Jorgensen; the rookie from Montreal batted in six runs in one game. Then Rickey announced that soft-spoken Burt Shotton, 62, would succeed exile Leo ("The Lip") Durocher as manager of the Dodgers...