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...Chuck Dressen, Dodger manager, lifted Newcombe and put in Branca to pitch to Thomson. The Staten Island Scot took hold of Branca's second pitch and knocked it into the left field stands to win the ball game for the Giants...
...asked, "do you think is the better manager, Dressen or Durocher...
...know I've always thought Durocher was a wonderful manager," Stuffy answered. "Dressen will have to take all the blame for the Dodgers blowing a 13-game lead. After all, it's a manager's responsibility--putting in and pulling out pitchers at the right times, and so forth...
Technically, Smith felt there were a few flaws. "There was some slight running of colors. When [Dodger Manager] Charley Dressen . . . stood on the bare base path . . . his white uniform was immaculate as a prom queen's gown. But the camera followed him as he returned to the coach's box beside third, and against this background of "turf he turned green, like cheap jewelry. Light blues ran a good deal too . . . when the camera swept the shirt-sleeved crowd one had the impression that all the customers had been laundered together with too much bluing in the water...
...difference, Dressen thinks, is mostly in his own attitude. "I'm with them, and they're more relaxed. I never put a player in the doghouse. I don't care if they go out at night and have a drink. Training for baseball is not like training for a fight, where it's all over in 30 minutes. The boys have to relax once in a while." But, adds Dressen, "when they make a mistake, I fine 'em-and they get over it quick...