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Heart of the Team. On the bench, ruminating over a cud of tobacco, the Brooklyn Dodgers' Catcher Campanella is the picture of tranquillity. He never makes an unnecessary move. Take away the uniform, and he would look for all the world like a displaced Buddha in calm contemplation. But the fans sit up when he waddles to his place behind the plate. A remarkable transformation takes place: the somnolent bulk becomes a quick and agile athlete. After he has strapped on the "tools of ignorance,"* hunkered down in the close confines of the modern catcher...
...skill on the diamond. Mrs. Effa Manley, owner of the Newark (N.J.) Eagles, gave him his first big chance in 1944 simply because he looked big enough (6 ft. 4 in., 225 lbs.) to throw hard. By 1946 he was throwing hard enough to make his way to a Dodger farm club in Nashua. N.H. There, a mild-mannered manager named Walter Alston learned his first lessons in handling the moody pitcher. And an up-and-coming catcher named Roy Campanella learned how to needle him into game-winning pitch...
...start. A silly squabble with Manager Alston about pitching batting practice got him a quick but firm invitation to clear out of the clubhouse (TIME, May 23). Newk brooded for a day, apologized and came back with blood in his eye. Out of his Nashua experience, Dodger Manager "Smokey" Alston had obviously fashioned the right formula for handling his hot righthander. Newk has been fogging the ball past enemy batters ever since...
Unimpressed by the fact that Campy had snapped out of a batting slump soon after the operation, Dodger President Walter O'Malley suggested that it was earlier surgery by another doctor that really turned the trick. Let Dr. Shenkman sue. said he. "It appears that [Dr. Shenkman] thought he was operating on Roy's bankroll ... He offered to arbitrate before a committee of doctors. I told him I preferred a jury of people accustomed to paying doctors' bills, not sending them...
...fourth inning, with the Dodgers coasting along on a 2-0 lead, Left Fielder Sandy Amoros raced home from second on a blooping single. Monte Irvin's peg beat him to the plate. Umpire Pinelli spread his arms, palms down. Safe? Leo Durocher, the Giants' manager, boiled from the bench. Unaccountably astonished because Durocher and 27,297 fans had misunderstood him, Pinelli jerked his thumb over his shoulder and allowed that Amoros was out. Durocher simmered down. Dodger Manager Alston kicked up a brief fuss just for the record...