Word: rickey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ballplayers go), 4-Fs, a few discharged war veterans, a few Latin Americans, But there was also the bogey of a draft of 4-Fs into essential industries. By midsummer the national pastime might be almost exclusively a sport for the young and the old. Dodger President Branch Rickey offered a plan: let all the clubs limit their reserve lists of players to an agreed figure and pool the surplus, to be drawn on whenever any club needed a replacement...
Thirteen days before Dodger President Branch Rickey made last week's pronouncement, the editor & publisher of The Sporting News had gingerly suggested that behavior problems, not salary bickering, were separating Brooklyn's president and manager. Durocher's five-year record was good: one pennant, two seconds, two thirds. But last season the Dodgers had a player revolt, barely finished third. Lippy Leo was as flashy a figure along high-living Broadway as in Ebbets Field. Knowing Rickey's puritanism, many a sportswriter flatly forecast the lumps...
...Sporting News thought that Durocher would promise to behave, that Rickey would offer a new contract at the same old pay ($25,000). As so often occurs in baseball, it turned out just as the News predicted. Again Taylor Spink had justified his nickname: "Mr. Baseball...
...name of Abner Doubleday is Finn MacCool? Perhaps a first baseman Branch Rickey spotted in. Nellies Apron, Ark.? What's his batting average...
...Branch Rickey calls a team "dangerous" when it is good enough to win games, not good enough to win the pennant. The condition is dangerous because it is comfortable, lulling...