Word: polos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since it is almost impossible to weave the party line into baseball and football stories, sportwriters on Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker tend to forget about the class struggle. Last week this tendency to capitalist complacency got a pair of them into trouble. In reporting the Polo Grounds row between New York Giants' Manager Leo Durocher and a fan named Fred Boysen (see SPORT), the Daily Worker sport page played it straight at first. Wrote Columnist Bill Mardo: "One wants to see the respective merits of this case, and nothing else, brought out in the open and aired...
Baseball Commissioner Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler was not mad, just terribly hurt. The sportwriters had swung him around their heads with gay, unremitting abandon for his summary suspension of Leo Durocher over a Polo Grounds dust-up with a loudmouthed fan (TIME, May 9). In Cincinnati last week, Happy Chandler exonerated himself and "The Lip"-in that order...
...bitter afternoon for the New York Giants' Leo ("The Lip") Durocher. His old ball club, the Brooklyn Dodgers, was spraying Giant pitches into the far reaches of the Polo Grounds. Each time Durocher crossed to his third-base coaching box, visiting Brooklyn fans yowled and booed...
...accounts of the short, sharp encounter seemed to tally. Most of the 24,069 fans didn't even see it. Sportwriters, radio announcers and TV took a quick look, dismissed it casually as another cap-snatching caper of the kind that is a common occurrence at the Polo Grounds. But not Fred Boysen. He cried out for a doctor, was taxied to a hospital. There, according to an attendant, he achieved "a couple of really impressive faints." In less time than it takes to beat out a bunt, a lawyer was at his bedside, making talk of a damage...
...Durocher, suspended from baseball for the second time Friday by Commissioner Albert B. Chandler after an incident at the Polo Grounds was hear toned by the support of many fans who said they witnessed the affair and declared Durocher was blameless. One fan even said he "accidentally kicked and tripped over" Fred Boyson. Boyson, a 22-year old Brooklyn fan, charged that Durocher hit him from behind, knocked him to the ground and scuffed him, after the Giant's 15 to 2 loss to the Dodgers Thursday...