Word: dodgertown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...club officials of Manhattan newspapers that carried stories critical of the Dodgers, "lest the Los Angeles contingent be contaminated." Other "small reprisals": the Dodgers' announcement that their plane would take only California sportswriters to citrus-circuit exhibition games; the "eviction" of New York newsmen from sleeping quarters at Dodgertown; timing of press releases, which in the case of a spring-training automobile accident involving Duke Snider and two teammates were held up to favor Western dailies' later deadlines. The Associated Press was so miffed at how the Dodger management broke the accident story that it threatened to withdraw...
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