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Faith in Figures. The betters showed faith in the figures, and the figures prove incontestably that Brooklyn Manager Charley Dressen has a team of rare power...
Even more important, Dressen's 1953 Dodgers have played their best when the chips were down. Last year the Dodgers fattened up on second-division clubs, lost to the strong teams. This year Brooklyn trampled all opposition, won 30 of its last 37 games in the pennant drive. Growls Dressen : "We're in no mood to coast. The series will take care of itself." Faith in an Old Habit. Brooklyn will need its power. In the American League, the Yankees have made the same kind of runaway; this week, by beating second-place Cleveland...
...standing "a little closer to the plate" than he did last year, when his season's batting average was only .269. "That gives me a little more wood on the ball." Whatever the explanation, Campanella's hitting is a profound source of pleasure to Brooklyn Manager Charley Dressen. who has been shuffling his players frantically to get more power into his lineup. But Dressen is even more pleased, if possible, with Campanella the backstop than with Campanella the batter. "He's really a great catcher," says Dressen. happily ticking off Campy's virtues. "The pitchers like...
Fifth Game. In the fifth, Snider hit his second homer, scoring two teammates. The Yankees fired back with five runs; three of them rode in on Mize's third home run in three days. Manager Charley Dressen let Pitcher Carl Erskine stay in, and he pitched no-hit ball the rest of the way. In the eleventh, Hero Snider sliced a double that won for the Dodgers...
Brooklyn Manager Charley Dressen (who last week promised readers of the Saturday Evening Post that "The Dodgers Won't Blow It Again") hoped he had an answer for the Giants in Rookie Reliefer Joe Black (14-3). But this week, when the Dodgers blew a crucial game to the sixth-place Cincinnati Reds, only a timely St. Louis victory over the Giants kept the Brooklyn lead at 3 games (compared with their 6-game lead at the same pre-disaster time last year). Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, aiming for his fourth straight pennant, had a more convincing answer...