Word: flatbushes
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...give . . . St. Louis any better break than you give us. . . ." That afternoon Leo ("The Lip") Durocher used eight Dodger pitchers-a league record-in an unsuccessful attempt to beat the Phillies. Next day, star Outfielder Pete Reiser broke a leg sliding into base, while 32,000 Flatbush faithfuls groaned in intense, personal pain...
...game of the World Series depended on it, clouted one homer, one double, and two singles in four times up. Ex-Marine Ted Williams, 27, once content to be baseball's best batsman, was now working at his fielding, too. Brooklyn's Dixie Walker, the pride of Flatbush, was no cinch to be a regular...
...Brooklyn won the pennant and the Giants got a new manager: Melvin Thomas Ott, the club's slugging right fielder with a peculiar but potent cocked-leg stand. The feud was and still is in flower, but hard as they tried, the Flatbush faithful could not hate stumpy, boyish Mel Ott. The Dodgers have outclassed the Giants in recent years, but they still respect Enemy Agent...
...along in seventh place, or worse. But Manager Leo Durocher's pre-season prediction that he would uncork some useful pitchers had come true. The hitters, led by Puerto Rican Luis Olmo had made a habit of coming through in the clutch. These tangible assets, and the old Flatbush urge to die for dear old Durocher. had enabled the Dodgers to win eleven straight for a season record...
...forget he's a matinee idol, and pretty nearly carries it off. Henry Hull is excellent as a rather improbable superannuated newspaperman who gets himself taken along on the theory that someone is needed to relate the action to the philosophy of global war. For the fans, the Flatbush soldier is here, too, played by George Tobias...