Word: campanella
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...race was beginning to look like a walkaway. The Brooklyn Dodgers, who have led the league since the middle of May, were still far out in front. Backed by three members of the 1951 All-Star team-First Baseman Gil Hodges, Second Baseman Jackie Robinson and Catcher Roy Campanella-the Dodgers have not been less than 4½ games ahead of the second-place Giants for a fortnight. Even when the Dodgers are in a slump (they won only two of seven games last week), the rest of the league has obligingly protected the Brooklyn lead by knocking each other...
...veteran who salts his peppery chatter with baseball's four-letter Anglo-Saxon, has some sound reasons for his optimism. He has an infield which matches or betters any in either league, both in fielding and hitting, a stable of booming hitters (see box) and, in Roy Campanella, the best catcher in baseball. Though his pitching staff is a little short of reliable starters, it is long on reliefers, especially when handled by Dressen's particular brand of managerial magic-a shrewd combination of coaxing and coercion...
...first game the Cards outhit the Dodgers, 9 to 6, but Dressen juggled three pitchers astutely enough to get a 3-2 victory on Roy Campanella's double in the ninth. The Cards outhit the Dodgers in the second game too, but Dressen helped to ease Pitcher Ralph Branca through the bad spots, and Campanella's home run again won for the Dodgers, 3 to 2. In the final game the Cardinals belted unbeaten Preacher Roe for nine hits while the Dodgers were getting five, but Brooklyn again won, 2 t01, on a ninthinning, bases-loaded single...
Charlie Dressen broke the Dodgers on top with top hitting. Jackie Robinson has just dropped below .400 for the first time. Gil Hodges has hit is homers, Peewee Roose, Duke Snider, and Roy Campanella have hit hard and often. Even Cal Abrams was hitting...
...Second Baseman Robinson, who is currently smacking the ball at a .415 cleanup clip (and last week drew a sharp rebuke from League President Ford Frick for "popping off" to umpires); Fire-bailer Don Newcombe, ace of the Dodger pitching staff, who won 19 games last year; Catcher Roy Campanella, best in the National League (he caught all 14 innings of 1950's All-Star game); Pitcher Dan Bankhead...