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Heading the committee are Alexis V. Tellis, chairman of the Year Book, and William J. Rickey, business manager. Other members from Harvard include Frank Farwell, Stanley Fayman, Robert Henninger, John Hollis, George Menkes, Eliot Mover, Travis Nelson, Robert Schaeberle, and Charles Williams...
...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...