Word: dodger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pitcher Paul Pettit ($100,000), now laboring for his fourth minor-league club, the Hollywood (class AAA) Stars, and Cleveland's Pitcher Billy Joe Davidson (more than $100,000), who has yet to show much of anything in the Class B Tri-State League. In Brooklyn last week, Dodger fans were happily pointing to a less expensive ($22,000) exception: Righthander Billy Loes (rhymes with throws), a good-looking 22-year-old who did his schoolboy pitching right in Brooklyn's backyard at Astoria...
Loes signed in 1949, spent that year in the minors. He spent most of the 1950 season sitting on the Dodger bench, jeering at rival players and boasting a pitching prowess he seldom got a chance to show. Last year he was in the Army...
Teaming with Rookie Shortstop Alvin Dark in Boston, Stanky was well on his way to his best major-league season (batting average: .320) when he broke his leg sliding into third and spiking Dodger Catcher Bruce Edwards. By the end of the season, with Stanky intact again, Boston won its first pennant in 34 years. Meanwhile, in the switch that baffled baseball, Durocher left Brooklyn to manage the Giants. In his first important trade to build "my kind of team," Durocher got Stanky and Dark from Boston. Old feuds were forgotten. Baseball's two "holler guys" were together again...
...Navy. In Halifax, the Canadian navy posted bulletins to remind its sailors that they should say "Aye aye, sir," not "O.K., sir," "Right, sir," "Roger, dodger...
Copland: Old American Songs (William Warfield, baritone; Aaron Copland, piano; Columbia, 1 side LP). Simple arrangements, sung with spirit, of The Boatmen's Dance, The Dodger and I Bought Me a Cat. Other interesting home products can be heard in "Music in America's" Early American Psalmody (the Margaret Dodd Singers) and Ballads in Colonial America (sung by Jean Ritchie and Tony Kraber; New Records, 4 sides LP). Recordings: good...