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...season) and have been coasting ever since. They go into the series with three of the league's top four home-run hitters: Outfielders Charley Keller (33), Tommy Henrich (31) and Joe Di Maggio (30)-a trio who can also outfield and outthrow Brooklyn's Outfielders Pete Reiser, Joe Medwick, Dixie Walker...
That started a Dodger slump: they lost seven of their next ten games. Whitlow Wyatt, their best pitcher (when he strolls to the mound, some Dodger fan usually screams: "T'row it down d'eir t'roats, Whitelaw!"), lost three games in a row. Rookie Pete Reiser, who was leading the league in hitting, suddenly found it hard to connect. While Lippy's boys were losing nine out of twelve games, the Cardinals won nine out of twelve. Last week, St. Louis was on top by two full games. It looked like a dogfight...
...angels of whom Brooklynites dream are no veterans but two 22-year-olds: Harold ("Peewee") Reese and Harold ("Pete") Reiser. Reese, purchased from the Louisville Colonels last year (but benched with a chipped heel bone a good part of the season), is considered one of the smartest shortstops in the game. Reiser (rhymes with geezer) Drought up from Brooklyn's Elmira farm last summer, can play infield or outfield, nor does his bat sleep in his hand...
...theory of emergent evolution holds that space, time, matter, life are not independent of each other but form an organic whole. Reiser's basic space-time-matter trinity is about as mystical a concept as the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. He finds it religiously inspiring, scientifically sound. Typical points...
This space-time-matter organism is forever evolving. Mankind is the whole organism's "developing nervous system," and is due for greater changes still. Reiser insists that men must not leave their evolution merely up to cosmic rays as in the past, but must take their fate in their own hands, construct a rational, planetary society. If man does so, promises Reiser, "he will be superseded by the superman...