Word: dodger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Federal District Court, French was formally served a warrant issued by his Oregon draft board, charing him with being a draft dodger...
...Dodger team which will enter the Series shows a surprising lack of balance for a pennant-winner. Their probable first-game starter was a relief pitcher almost the whole season, which points out the weakness of the pitching staff. The infield which until the last two weeks was destined to set a new major league fielding mark leaked openly in the stretch. And the powerful batting order is loaded with right-handers, just the meat for Yankee right-handers Raschi and Reynolds...
...hitter are very slim; of some 50,000 major league games, only 86 have been no-hitters. The "perfect game"-i.e., a no-hitter with no batter reaching base on a walk or error-has not been achieved in the major leagues since 1922.* Last week Brooklyn Dodger Pitcher Carl Erskine missed the perfect game by the scant margin of a base on balls to-of all people-Pitcher Willie Ramsdell, weakest hitter of the Chicago Cubs...
...relief as it went foul. Cavarretta went out on an easy fly to centerfield. The final batter worked Erskine to a full 3-ball, 2-strike count before meekly grounding out. First-Base Umpire Bill Stewart had hardly made his dramatic thumb-up "out" gesture before the whole Dodger team poured out from diamond and dugout to crowd around grinning Carl Erskine and cheer the most sparkling pitching performance Ebbets Field had ever seen...
...major European race. The showing, in part, was attributed to Cunningham's drastic weight reduction (from 3,800 lbs. to 2,800) in his three specials, powered by Chrysler engines. With a year's time for more tinkering and tuning, Cunningham & Co. are now using the Brooklyn Dodger slogan: "Wait 'til next year...