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Pitcher: Simmons, Philadelphia (5-1) Batter: Wyrostek,Philadelphia (.406) Runs Batted In: Campanella, Brooklyn (38) Home Runs: Campanella...
...National League: Brooklyn 8, Pittsburgh 5, with homers for Brooklyn by Campanella and Snider; Chicago 3, Cincinnati 2, homers for Cincinnati by Marshall and Kluszewski; Milwaukee 3, St. Louis 2, a homer for Milwaukee by Bruton; New York 4, Philadelphia 1, a New York homer by Thomson...
Statistically, the Dodgers looked less formidable this year than last. Campanella, Hodges, Furillo, Reese and Cox all finished with lower batting averages than in 1951. Home-run production dropped from 184 to 153, and ace Pitcher Don Newcombe was drafted. But the Dodgers had an exceedingly valuable newcomer: Relief Pitcher Joe Black (15-4), Negro recruit to organized baseball who propped up a shaky pitching staff, was voted "National League Rookie of the Year" (TIME, Sept...
...Brooklyn Dodger Catcher Roy Campanella, the Baseball Writers' annual poll as Most Valuable Player in the National League. In second place: Stan ("The Man") Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals, who has won the award three times before. Third: the Giants' Monte Irvin, who led the league in runs batted...
...reproduction was excellent, striking and only faintly phony. The Dodgers and Boston Braves all came out as spectacularly beauteous critters, except for [Dodger Catcher] Roy Campanella, who had neglected to shave. The athletes looked only a wee bit too athletic, being endowed with magnificently bronzed complexions glowing with not quite believable health." Noting Sportcaster Red Barber's comment on First Baseman Hodges' rippling muscles, Critic Smith added: "You could see 'em, too, although they were encased in a pelt of somewhat lovelier tone-about the shade of roast beef medium-than Gil wears in real life...