Word: dodgerism
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...begins innocently: "Wish I was a Kellogg's Cornflake floatin' in my bowl takin' movies/ Relaxin' awhile, livin' in style, talkin' to a raisin who 'casion'ly plays L.A." And it ends on a note of tolerant satire: "Old Roger draft-dodger leavin' by the basement door/ Everybody knows what he's tippy-toeing down there...
...want to grow long hair or are prevented by school regulations from doing so find that pop-on wigs are essential. "We wouldn't be hired if we looked cleancut and normal," says Don Gabler, a Brooklyn College senior who plays in a trio known as The Brooklyn Dodgers. "The minute we stop playing," adds fellow Dodger Elliott Dombroff, "the wigs come...
...years, he liked to spend the off season at home, playing for Havana in the Cuban Winter League. Then, in 1962, former Brooklyn Dodger Outfielder Sandy Amorós, who saved the 1955 World Series for the Bums with his spectacular centerfield snag off Yogi Berra, took a very mean curve from Fidel Castro. The Beard decided that Sandy should stay in the bush league, kept him in Cuba for five years. Finally Sandy, 37, succeeded in getting passage for himself, his wife Migdalia and 13-year-old daughter Eloísa aboard one of the twice-daily Varadero...
...SANDY KOUFAX SHOW and NBC'S MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL (NBC, 2 p.m. to conclusion). The ex-Dodger great tosses out the season's first ball in a 15-minute pregame show before Los Angeles takes on the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Memorial Stadium in St. Louis...
...always, spring training wound up with a flurry of activity. To cement their porous infield, the New York Yan kees purchased Dodger John Kennedy, who made only eight errors in 125 games last year; Kennedy committed two booboos in his first game for the Yanks. The Baltimore Orioles shipped Pitcher Steve Barber, a 20-game winner in 1963, back to the minors; the New York Mets astonished practically everybody by farming out veteran Centerfielder Johnny Lewis, their No. 1 hitter (at .387) during the Grapefruit League season, replacing him with Rookie Don Bosch-who batted .147 this spring...