Word: forli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Manhattan's Hotel Commodore last week, the top brass of two big league ball clubs eyed each other for size and vulnerability. Both were suffering similar symptoms: the New York Giants had some stars who did not speak Manager Leo Durocher's roughneck language and the Boston...
For three days there were offers and counteroffers. Then the haggling came to an end and the Giants proudly announced that they had taken on Boston's talented young (26) Shortstop Alvin Dark and his garrulous sidekick, aging (32) Second Baseman Ed Stanky. Leo Durocher seemed principally pleased to...
For & Against. With equal pride, the Braves announced their haul in the big deal. From the Giants they got two hard-hitting, rifle-armed outfielders, Sid Gordon and Willard Marshall, one able-bodied shortstop, Buddy Kerr, and one nondescript pitcher, Sam Webb. Kerr and Marshall had been in Durocher'...
Southworth's trouble in Boston was deeper and more recent. It began last winter after Southworth had masterminded a mediocre collection of misfits and castoffs to the 1948 National League pennant. When his ballplayers wanted more money, they heard from the front office that "Southworth doesn't think...
Haunted House. The most outspoken of the malcontents was Ed Stanky, who made no secret of what he thought about Southworth's managing. Stanky's roommate, Alvin Dark, said "Me, too." By August, Southworth was like a man in a haunted house, shying at every whisper, He was...