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...Bankhead had a fine old Southern name, a good fast ball and a fair curve. For the Memphis Red Sox in the Negro American League, he had won ten games against five losses. Branch Rickey personally scouted him and decided he could help the Dodgers...
...Respect. Shotton, a kind of Flatbush Cincinnatus, was called from his Florida farm last spring by Boss Branch Rickey to take charge of the Dodgers, after Manager Leo Durocher was suspended for a year (TIME, April 21). Shotton, semi-retired after a long career as outfielder, coach, manager and Brooklyn scout, scarcely knew his players' first names. At first he leaned heavily for advice on Stanky and Pitcher Hugh Casey, but now he runs the team by himself. Only once-after the Dodgers had lost four straight to the Cards in June-has Boss Rickey called Shotton into...
...just a crack football back. In West Point's difficult Master of the Sword test (it includes chin-ups, rope-climb, vertical jump, softball throw) he broke the Academy record with 926½ points. In basketball, Davis was a good forward; in baseball, a talented centerfielder. Wise Branch Rickey has said that Davis was worth $75,000 to any big-league baseball club. Two weeks ago, after finishing a baseball game against Navy, Davis hurried across the campus to help out Army's track team (he broke the 220-yd. Army and meet record in 20.9 seconds...
...surprises, as usual, popped out of Branch Rickey's Brooklyn surprise box. First, a last-minute switch nudged aging Arky Vaughan off third base, and gave the job to scrawny John ("Spider") Jorgensen; the rookie from Montreal batted in six runs in one game. Then Rickey announced that soft-spoken Burt Shotton, 62, would succeed exile Leo ("The Lip") Durocher as manager of the Dodgers...
Wholly unlike Durocher, grey-haired Burt Shotton had been thrown out of only two games in 39 years of playing, coaching and managing. Once before, with the Browns, he had pinch-hit as Rickey's "Sunday manager" (the day the boss stays home). Shotton would manage the Dodgers on faith, without a written contract. There was no official word on salary, but everybody knew that it was far less than the $60,000 Durocher would have drawn for the job. And there was little doubt that Shotton would step aside once Durocher was back in grace...