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...that Charley Dressen wanted to leave Brooklyn-or even, said President O'Malley, that Brooklyn wanted to lose Dressen. Charley's irremediable error had been one of timing...
...baseball season was over, and the baseball writers who straggled into the front office of the Brooklyn Dodgers last week expected only routine fare: a freeloading lunch, and the news that Manager Charley Dressen had signed his 1954 contract. Instead, Brooklyn President Walter O'Malley sent them scurrying to the telephones with an announcement: "Brooklyn will have a new manager next year...
Back in late September, flushed with the achievement of leading the Dodgers to their second National League pennant in a row, Charley Dressen had sat him down to compose a letter to O'Malley & Co. In forceful phrases, the letter pointed out that the managers of several also-rans had got three-year contracts: Charley Grimm of the second-place Milwaukee Braves, Eddie Stanky of the fourth-place St. Louis Cardinals. Even Leo Durocher-especially Leo Durocher-of the fifth-place New-York Giants, had been given a two-year contract. Charley Dressen demanded a raise-(from...
...Duke Snider and Carl Furillo, had rolled up 208 homers to the Yankees' 139. True, the Yankee pitching staff was rich in veterans with the habit of winning in the World Series, but in Carl Erskine (20-6), Preacher Roe (11-3) and Billy Loes (14-8) Charley Dressen's Brooklyns had a certified crew of winners, too. Growled old National Leaguer Rogers Hornsby: "If the Dodgers don't beat the Yankees this time, they ought to cut their throats...
Commissioner Ford Frick fined manager Chuck Dressen of the Brooklyn Dodgers and outfielder Irv Noren of the New York Yankees each $100 yesterday for their part in incidents which occurred during the recent World Series...