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...paper, the Dodgers seemed the team to do it. They had outhit the Yankees (.285 to .273) in the regular season. Their sluggers led by Roy Campanella, Gil Hodges, Duke Snider and Carl Furillo, had rolled up 208 homers to the Yankees' 139. True, the Yankee pitching staff was rich in veterans with the habit of winning in the World Series, but in Carl Erskine (20-6), Preacher Roe (11-3) and Billy Loes (14-8) Charley Dressen's Brooklyns had a certified crew of winners, too. Growled old National Leaguer Rogers Hornsby: "If the Dodgers...
Third Game. Two games down and burning to 'win in their home park, the Dodgers gave Pitcher Erskine a second chance. Erskine brought Brooklyn back into the Series, struck out 14 Yankees (Mickey Mantle four times) to set a Series record. Catcher Campanella, bothered by a swollen hand that had been hit by a first-game pitch, suddenly recovered. His eighth-inning homer beat the Yanks...
...standards with his See It Now and special documentaries. From his studio armchair Murrow gazes at a large "window," which seems to lead into an adjoining living room (a remote picture is superimposed on the studio scene). On his first show, he gabbed with Brooklyn Dodgers Catcher Roy Campanella (just home from busting up the third World Series game) about his six kids, his baseball trophies and the good life in Queens, N.Y. That done, Murrow switched to Conductor Leopold Stokowski and his wife, Gloria Vanderbilt, who strolled about their Manhattan apartment explaining Gloria's paintings, flipping through...
Team: Brooklyn (by 13 games) Pitcher: Spahn, Milwaukee (23-7) Batter: Furillo, Bklyn. (.344) Runs Batted In: Campanella...
...Reynolds for three runs, on a four-bagger by first-baseman Gil Hodges, a single by Billy Cox, and Shuba's pinch homer. Sain came on to relieve Reynolds, but soon found himself in trouble as the Dodgers put together the game-tying run on successive singles by Roy Campanella, Hodges, and Carl Furillo...