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...games out in August. Charlie Dressen, Dodgers manager, proclaiming "the Giants is dead." New York papers involved in a grammatical argument over whether Dressen should have said "is dead" or "are dead"--but not doubting the veracity of his statement. Sweet disproof; a three-game playoff; Bobby Thomson's important moment (the eternal antidote to Bill Buckner's legs...
...hard as $100 worth of Jawbreakers," Rose says now, proving he is a Hall of Famer. "If you got a good reliever one year," Charlie Dressen used to advise newer managers, "get a different one the next." Only Rose would understand that this applies to similes as well. Approaching 46, the Reds' player-manager had to leave himself off the winter roster in order to protect a younger man, like Pitcher Norm Charlton, whose finger Rose broke with the first fungo of the season...
...Babes of Summer represent the third phase of Alston's career with the Dodgers. Phase I began in Brooklyn when he inherited from Charlie Dressen a club of sluggers led by Roy Campanella, Gil Hodges and Duke Snider. Back then, explains Alston, "it was simply a matter of playing it close to the vest until one of your big guns broke up the game with a home run." Phase II came after the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1958 and had to rely on speed and pitching to make up for their gradual loss of gun power...
Both Smith and Adcock were given two-year contracts. Detroit's announcement ended the speculation over a successor to the late Charlie Dressen, who died of a heart attack in August...
Died. Charley Dressen, 67, manager of the Detroit Tigers since 1963, a sawed-off (5 ft. 6 in.) onetime third baseman for the Cincinnati Reds, who ate a lot of chile con carne and acted that way, squaring off nose to belt with 6-ft. umpires and peppering his men with insults ("All ballplayers is dumb, but outfielders is the dumbest"), an approach which took him in and out of nine teams as a coach or manager, and somehow gave him two years of glory when he led the Brooklyn Dodgers to pennants in 1952 and 1953; of a heart...