Word: locker-room
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...higher esteem by his team mates than strong-arm Ralph Branca, the Dodgers' only 20-game winner. And of course there is Dixie Walker, the "Pee-pul's Cherce," who at 36 still hits when it will do the most good-with men on base. In a locker-room gabfest a few weeks ago, the Dodgers agreed among themselves that Jackie Robinson was the team's third most valuable player-behind Edwards and Reese...
...importance of the game. The postwar crop of athletes, as it would appear from reports from other parts of the nation, no longer is willing to shed that last drop of blood in the Homecoming Battle, preferring to eke out a successful record for their team week by week. Locker-room strife at Indiana and Ohio State has been laid to just such indifference of the local "Yale" rivalries. The fact that Dick Harlow, working with much the same type of ex-servicemen, could maintain his team's morale, ignite it to the levels of Saturday's inspired first period...
...truncheon was standard equipment on a muddy gridiron, football was the sport of gentlemen-mastodons with handlebar mops hanging over their snarling lips. Slipping out of their four-button sack coats, doffing their celluloid collars, and carefully folding their string-ties, an aggregation would roar out of a gaslit locker-room to pull every play in the book, and some still in manuscript. Grabbing moustaches was worth a slight penalty, but the pile-on, the straight-arm, and an occasional sapping with a clenched fist were all "part of the game." For eleven such people--and for the age that...
...sewed up the American League pennant in the first six weeks. When he ignored the jeers of the fans, they gradually turned to cheers. But he still had enough of his prewar aloofness not to tip his hat to the customers, sometimes hung around the locker-room for three hours after the game to avoid hero-worshippers. Williams had only one trouble: he seemed to get musclebound against the second-place New York Yankees. He had yet to make a hit this year in Yankee Stadium...
...they beat the Pirates and climbed out of the National League basement, the Phillies wrecked the locker-room. A cellar door was burned in celebration. Manager Chapman broke a rule and served the team beer. Four days later they climbed to sixth place. For the first time people began buying Philly pennants from peddlers outside the park. When a Sunday game with Cincinnati was called after eleven innings with the score tied, State Assemblyman Joe Scanlon, sensing a popular issue, set about changing Pennsylvania's Sunday Blue...