Word: dodger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...payoff game was a pitchers' duel all the way: Don Newcombe for the Dodgers, Robin Roberts for the Phillies-each trying to win his 20th game. The Phillies got a run in the sixth, but Dodger Peewee Reese promptly tied things up with a home run. It was still tied, 1-1, at the end of the ninth. In the tenth, the Phillies settled matters. With two men on, Leftfielder Dick Sisler shoved a fast ball into the left-field stands. It was the Phillies' first pennant in 35 years...
...Brooklyn, Dodger First Baseman Gil Hodges hit four home runs against the Boston Braves to tie the major-league record (for a nine-inning game) set by Lou Gehrig in 1932. Brooklyn...
...over, Ebert will board ship for the U.S. Since 1948, he has spent his winters teaching opera at the University of Southern California. He has already brought one of his American students to help him out of Glyndebourne and Edinburgh. Bob Herman, 25, son of onetime Brooklyn Daffy Dodger Babe Herman, is now his year-round assistant producer. Says Ebert: "Opera has a long way to go in America . . . There is too much accent on voices, not enough on stage presence. Nobody spends nearly nough time rehearsing...
...Just before election day last November, he made public his plans to marry an ex-model, Sloan Simpson. When newspapermen coarsely suggested that his timing might have something to do with getting elected, he gave them all the rough side of his tongue, and, even worse, became a camera dodger...
...Said Dodger Manager Burt Shotton: "Well, I guess that disposes of the Giants. I don't think we'll hear much more about them passing us this year." Retorted Giant Manager Leo Durocher, when he heard about it: "So the Dodgers have disposed of the Giants? Nuts to kindly old Burt. Just remind that silver-haired gentleman that we still have eight games to play with the Dodgers...