Word: dodgerism
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...wildly inflating some figures for publicity, deflating others to prevent resentment among their regular players.) Nor was Milwaukee the only club showering greenbacks on green schoolboys. June graduations brought on a binge of bonus payments that have cost the majors close to $4,000,000, and Los Angeles Dodger Scouting Director Al Campanis figures that teen-age stars will take in as much as $14 million before the year ends. (They got $7,500,000 last year.) Some of the more lavish handouts...
...Dodger Pitcher Don Drysdale is just about the only man to credit the ballplayers themselves. "There are just better hitters around." said he last week, "and they're hitting the long ball." With that, Drysdale stepped up to bat against the Chicago Cubs at the Coliseum, belted his second home run of the season...
...overriding pressures on the older men, and the irregular development of the younger players bodes ill for LA this year. The Dodger farm system has been guilty of over-production, and the ensuing boom harbors a possible depression. Too much disorganization and surplus of talent will lose ball games...
Married. Laraine Day, 40, Mormon cinemactress previously married to artful Dodger Leo Durocher; and Mike Grilikhes, 38, CBS television executive; she for the third time, he for the second; in a 3½-hour ceremony in Hollywood's Mormon Temple...
...whose blistering fast ball earned him a place in baseball's Hall of Fame and whose off-field training notions ("Raise all the hell you want but don't get caught") and on-field capers, such as getting trapped on third base along with two Brooklyn Dodger teammates, won the hearts of Flatbush fans; of a heart attack; in Homosassa Springs, Fla. No mere comedian, Dazzy led the National League in strike-outs seven years in a row, fanned a total of 2,045 batters, racked up a 28-6 record during his best year, 1924, and pitched...