Word: dodger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the green grass of Yankee Stadium, a tourist in Rome succumbed to an old Yankee habit: psychoanalyzing the Brooklyn Dodgers. Said Joseph Paul Di-Maggio about a possible Dodger-Yankee World Series: "It has gotten so bad with them in Brooklyn that they can't even say the word 'Yankees.' It's always 'those blankety-blank lucky Yankees'-to put it politely. I guess the only thing that can cure them is a brainwashing...
...Dodger fans are a surly lot, riddled by secret fears and inferiority complexes...
...games. For nearly six years he survived a man-killing, year-round schedule-Negro leagues in the summer, tropical ball in the winter. In rickety buses he rattled across the Midwest and the Central American mountains, playing for peanuts, but always playing well. During seven seasons as a Dodger regular he has cheerfully suffered an extraordinary collection of broken bones, beanballs and assorted bruises. He has learned his trade so well that today oldtimers rank him with the best ever, with Bill Dickey and "Gabby" Hartnett, "Mickey" Cochrane and Roger Bresnahan...
...Tragedy? Somewhere in their vast farm system, the Dodgers feel sure, they have a replacement for their tiring third baseman, Jackie Robinson, for their spry but elderly (36) captain and shortstop, Pee Wee Reese. When the time comes, they may even be able to turn up another outfielder almost as good as Duke Snider. But a substitute for Campy is a dream. To Dodger rooters. 1955 is the year of destiny, and destiny has the bulky shape of Roy Campanella...
...beaming man from Nicetown, life has become a lot nicer than it used to be in the old "bus-league" days. With his $45,000-a-year Dodger salary, plus $10,000 or so more from his Harlem liquor store and some extra folding money from cigarette endorsements, Campy can afford steak every day instead of bologna...