Word: dodgerism
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...After four years of haggling over suitable candidates, the Baseball Writers Association finally got around to electing two more players to baseball's Hall of Fame. The choices: fireballing Cleveland Pitcher Bob Feller, 43, and fiery Dodger Infielder Jackie Robinson-first Negro to crack the major leagues' color...
...delay at least makes the film more timely. Its hero is an objet d'artful dodger (Rex Harrison) of the sort that stole Goya's Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London (TIME, Sept. 1). With the help of a dumb broad (Rita Hay worth) and a clever painterfeiter (Joseph Wiseman), Rex artnaps a Velásquez from a castle in Spain. But a sinister grandee (Grégoire Aslan) steals it back, and before long bodies are dropping almost as fast as bum mots ("I want so much to be a first-class crook...
...Fastballing Dodger Pitcher Sandy Koufax, 25, who once struck out 18 batters in a single game, proved it was no fluke. Koufax fanned seven Phillies, raised his season strike-out total to 269, breaking Christy Mathewson's 58-year-old National League record. Koufax has now disposed of 952 batters in 948 innings-best strikeout record in history. > After one brief season in retirement, former Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, 71, agreed to get back in uniform for one more year and exercise his gravel-voiced strategy from one more big-league dugout. Beginning next spring, Stengel will manage...
...While coasting to his 18th victory (against eleven losses), Dodger Pitcher Sandy Koufax, 25, struck out 15 Chicago Cubs, needs only eight more strike-outs to equal Christy Mathewson's 58-year-old National League record of 267 in a single season...
starts at 2:30 p.m.). In New York's Yankee Stadium, a team of oldtime Yankees, including such gone greats as Bill Dickey, Allie Reynolds, Charlie Keller, and Lefty Gomez, takes on a mixed bag of former Brooklyn Dodger and New York Giant stars: Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson, Mickey Owen, Ralph Branca, Bill Terry, Frankie Frisch, Bobby Thompson...