Word: dodger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this week the Brooklyn Dodgers were beginning to make the other entries in the National League pennant race look like a bunch of platers chasing Man o' War. It was no longer a question of who would win the race, according to happy Dodger supporters, it was now just a matter of the Dodgers' winning margin. Even Brooklyn Manager Charley Dressen, after watching his team win its sixth straight and stretch its early-season lead to 6½ games, abandoned the manager's traditional attitude of dour dismay to admit: "The team that beats...
...Bust. Bouncing up & down the third-base coaching line, Dressen unfurls a series of antic semaphore signs, punctuated by shrill whistles, designed to befuddle opponents and give Dodger hitters and runners the benefit of his 31 years' experience as player (third base with Cincinnati), coach and manager. Unlike self-effacing ex-Manager Burt Shotton, he is no dugout sphinx. If some second-guessing fan questions his strategy, he is likely to switch his attentions to the crowd...
...Draft Dodger. On the Korean front, a North Korean surrendered at a 1st Marine Division command post, explained why he was in the Chinese Army: "I went to China to avoid being drafted in North Korea...
...Dodgers: Second Baseman Robinson, who is currently smacking the ball at a .415 cleanup clip (and last week drew a sharp rebuke from League President Ford Frick for "popping off" to umpires); Fire-bailer Don Newcombe, ace of the Dodger pitching staff, who won 19 games last year; Catcher Roy Campanella, best in the National League (he caught all 14 innings of 1950's All-Star game); Pitcher Dan Bankhead...
...Bumble, the Artful Dodger, and all the rest rush through dank London cellars and across creaking rooftops. It is the half-world of thieves and prostitutes, not very clean, but certainly very fascinating. And yet we always know that wrong will be righted and virtue rewarded. It isn't life, or the world as we know it, but produces the same comfortable felling as reading Dickens' novel...