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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knew," said beaming Tommy Henrich, "was I had him in a hole. I was just looking at the ball, and it looked pretty good." Henrich swung and the ball sailed into the Yankee Stadium's right-field stands for a home run. In the last half of the ninth inning, ailing (back injury) First-Baseman Henrich had robbed Don Newcombe, the Dodgers' towering Negro righthander, of a four-hit shutout in his first World Series pitching assignment, and won the Series' opening game for the Yankees...
...Brooklyn half of the inning, the hard-fighting Dodgers smashed out two home runs, but they were not enough...
...Having exhausted his slim staff of reliable starting pitchers, Manager Burt Shotton called on Don Newcombe again after only two days' rest; the Yanks bombarded him and Reliever Joe Hatten to win 6 to 4. On Sunday, even virus-ridden Joe DiMaggio came to life with his first home run-and second hit-of the Series. The Yankees slugged their way through six Dodger pitchers to a 10-to-6 victory and their twelfth World Series crown. Said Yankee Manager Casey Stengel: "We won from the bullpen. The difference in the teams was the relief pitchers...
There, for 25 francs (7?) admission, stand "the shoeless ones"-the great middle-class portion of the crowd which is popularly supposed to bet its shoes and go home barefoot. When a start is bad or a favorite jostled, the crowd has been known to set fire to the beer stands dotting the infield, pull the pari-mutuel booths up by the roots and send the swells across the track fleeing...
...Denise Chambon it was a happy day. When the bac jurymen finished tabulating the results, Denise learned she had passed second on a list of twelve with an assez bien after her name. At her home her mother and bus-conductor father received the news proudly...