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...Ott, manager of the New York Giants, had thrown in the sponge. Leo Durocher, who was hated worse by Giant fans than any living man, had resigned as manager of the arch-rival Brooklyn Dodgers-to take over Ott's job. Soft-spoken old Burt Shotton had soft-shoed back from exile to take over the Dodgers...
Melancholy Mel. The fireworks were set off on the Fourth of July, but the explosion wasn't heard for twelve days. The Fourth was the day when Mel Ott, once-great ballplayer and prince among his fellows, recognized the obvious: he wasn't tough enough to be a manager. He couldn't handle his men-especially pitchers. The fans who cheered him loudest when he was socking home runs (in his day he had hit 511, an alltime National League, record) were down on him. His players were loafing on him, and second-guessing his decisions after...
When Horace Stoneham, the Giants' president, asked Ott what the club needed, Mel replied: "Maybe a new manager." Stoneham agreed. At last week's All-Star game in St. Louis,* Mel Ott and his boss secretly called it quits and set out to hire Durocher. But could Leo Durocher be hired...
...error to TIME'S sport editor . . . for stating that Giants' Manager Mel Ott hung a $500 fine on Pitcher Bill Voiselle after the latter served up a home-run ball with a count of "two balls and no strikes" [TIME, June...
...Razzberries. At 29, Big Bill Voiselle was strictly a retread. He blew out three years ago when he was with the New York Giants. One fat pitch (clouted for a home run with the count two balls and no strikes) did it. Giants' Manager Mel Ott bawled him out in front of the whole team and fined him $500. Bill began to brood. "Yuh don't feel like pitching when a fine's hanging over your head," he said. The fans jeered. Deafness and all, says Bill, "When 30,000 razzberries pour down on you, you hear...