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...National League pennant race look like a bunch of platers chasing Man o' War. It was no longer a question of who would win the race, according to happy Dodger supporters, it was now just a matter of the Dodgers' winning margin. Even Brooklyn Manager Charley Dressen, after watching his team win its sixth straight and stretch its early-season lead to 6½ games, abandoned the manager's traditional attitude of dour dismay to admit: "The team that beats us can win the pennant-but nobody is going to beat...
Chipper Charley Dressen, a bustling, 52-year-old veteran who salts his peppery chatter with baseball's four-letter Anglo-Saxon, has some sound reasons for his optimism. He has an infield which matches or betters any in either league, both in fielding and hitting, a stable of booming hitters (see box) and, in Roy Campanella, the best catcher in baseball. Though his pitching staff is a little short of reliable starters, it is long on reliefers, especially when handled by Dressen's particular brand of managerial magic-a shrewd combination of coaxing and coercion...
...Charlie Dressen broke the Dodgers on top with top hitting. Jackie Robinson has just dropped below .400 for the first time. Gil Hodges has hit is homers, Peewee Roose, Duke Snider, and Roy Campanella have hit hard and often. Even Cal Abrams was hitting...
...Brooklyn Dodgers, who came within two games of winning the National League pennant last season, dismissed Manager Burt Shotton, longtime friend of the departed Branch Rickey. Brooklyn's new manager: pepperpot Charley Dressen, 52, onetime Brooklyn coach in the razzle-dazzle era of Larry MacPhail and Leo Durocher, manager last season of the Oakland Oaks, Pacific Coast League champions. Dressen, who got a one-year contract, said that his policy could be expressed very simply: "To win games for Brooklyn...
...even seem to like the Dodgers; he hurt rather than helped three promising players by tongue-lashings that shook their confidence; last season, Little Vic Lombardi hardly dared pitch a ball without looking to the dugout for Leo's nod. Leo's smart assistant, Coach Chuck Dressen, now with the Yankees, spent much of his time reinflating egos. (Some belittlers, exaggerating Dressen's importance, think the Dodgers won't be the same without him.) But Leo's lip also pays off. Against the Chicago Cubs last season, the day was getting dark and Brooklyn...