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...dived fully clothed into a fountain pool (though he always denied that he came gurgling to the surface with a goldfish clenched in his teeth). There was the time when he was playing in Brooklyn and staged a fake killing, complete with gunshot, that was daffy enough even by Dodger standards. And there was the time when he got news of his appointment as manager of the Chicago Cubs. "A'nice way to celebrate this," mused the Rabbit, "would be to fight a couple of Irish cops...
...Brooklyn Dodger Second Baseman James ("Junior") Gilliam, who hit .278, fielded .976, led the league in triples (17) and drew 100 bases on balls, as a lead-off batter, was named the National League's Rookie of the Year, the fifth Negro in a row to win the award. Runnerup: St. Louis Cardinal Pitcher Harvey Haddix, who won 20 games, lost...
Sixth Game. Carl Erskine again tried to pitch the Dodgers to a win, after only two days of rest, but he lasted only four innings. It was a close one, with the Yankees leading 3-1 going into the ninth. Dodger Carl Furillo then gave Brooklyn fans a foretaste of paradise by poling a two-run homer into the stands. Then the Yankees struck back; in the last of the ninth, with runners on first and second, Billy Martin drove a line single through the infield. It was his twelfth hit of the series. More important, it scored Hank Bauer...
...last week one of the hottest Dodger teams in years had run away with the National League race, won 98 games while losing only 44, and clinched the pennant with twelve still to play. Reading the statistics, wiseacres made the Dodgers favorites to beat the American League's New York Yankees in the Series and win their first World's Championship...
...Five Dodger regulars are hitting over .300: Outfielder Carl Furillo leads the league at .344; Outfielders Duke Snider and Jackie Robinson, First Baseman Gil Hodges and Catcher Roy Campanella are among the league's top batters. The Dodgers have hit a club record of 196 home runs-40 of them by Campanella, who has also set an alltime catcher's record for runs batted in (139). Brooklyn leads the league in fielding, and its pitching staff, though weakened by the failure of last year's relief man Joe Black to come through as a regular starter...