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...look too bad under the pitiful lights of wartime U.S. ball, but would spend a lot of their time on the bench in 1946. Best known: the Giants' Napoleon Reyes and Danny Gardella, the Athletics' Roberto Estalella, the White Sox' Alejandro Carrasquel, the Dodgers' Luis Olmo...
...second game Brooklyn's Luis Olmo objected, more or less politely, to a strike called by Umpire Tom Dunn. Olmo: "You missed that one." Dunn: "You shut up." Olmo: "I won't shut up." That finished Olmo (fine: $50). For objecting to Dunn's action, Manager Leo ("The Lip'') Durocher also got the heave-ho. The Pirates, long experienced in treading the paths of banishment, began laying a carpet of towels for the Lip's exit. Durocher gave the towels a few kicks, then reached into a box of baseballs and scattered the pellets...
Holmes, Boston .426 Kurowski, St. L. .387 Ott, New York .402 Olmo, Brooklyn...
Lombardi, N. Y. 25 Weintraub, N. Y. 23 Nieman, Boston 24 Olmo, Brooklyn...
Nobody could quite explain the Dodgers' second-place splurge. They had been doped to waddle 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...