Word: dodgerism
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...season's opening. This week the Sox, who have never regularly employed a Negro in any capacity at Boston's Fenway Park, will plead to the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination that Green needs more seasoning in the minors. From the sidelines came an unsolicited comment from ex-Dodger Jackie Robinson, the man who broke the color line in the majors with Brooklyn twelve years ago. When he and two other Negroes got tryouts at Fenway Park back in 1945, recalled Jackie: "We were told they never saw anybody do so well in a tryout, and that...
...Dodger pitching last year came up with a woeful 4.47 ERA last season and it has not been noticeably improved. The staff could be a surprise if Johnny Podres stays well and Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax, and Danny McDevitt live up to their press notices...
...lose all sense of public duty, the Defense Department is losing a great reservoir of brains because it has too few places to put them, and the undergraduate who does not plan to go to graduate school or become a father becomes, to all intents and purposes, a draft dodger. In the face of an increase in manpower due to population growth, the Defense Department is deferring large groups of men for poor reasons and offering a militarily unrealistic six-month program in the bargain...
...mobile air compressor towed by a dump truck suddenly broke loose, lurched across the Long Island Expressway, crunched into the side of a grey 1959 Cadillac. Only passenger to escape injury: longtime (1948-57) Dodger Catcher Roy Campanella, his thickset body still crippled from an auto accident a year ago (TIME, Feb. 10, 1958). Said Roy, shaken by the mishap: "If I hadn't been strapped in, I'd have gone through the windshield...
Meeting baseball writers as a group for the first time since his paralyzing auto accident last January, Dodger Catcher Roy Campanella spoke with undiminished spirit through a microphone suspended from his neck brace. Over the previous weekend, he had been home for the first time with his wife and children, and it was "the best medicine I've had." At Manhattan's N.Y.U.-Bellevue Medical Center, his daily routine includes lifting 17-lb. sandbags, breathing oxygen to help his respiration and speech. "I can feed myself," he boasted, "and that's a big thing. You hate...