Word: season
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Veteran Outfielder Johnny Lindell thought he had the word for the surprising early-season form of the New York Yankees : rhythm. "When the batters are cold, the pitchers are hot, and vice versa." Manager Casey Stengel admitted, in an ecstatic sort of way, that he was baffled. Instead of falling on their faces without the ailing Joe DiMaggio, the Yankees headed west this week after one of their best starts in years: ten wins in 13 games, and with a line-up composed largely of guys named Elmer...
Obviously, it was too good to last; in another month, opposing pitchers would know what to deal the upstarts to cool off their hitting. But by that time, Manager Stengel might be able to toss in DiMaggio and Keller. Last week, just eleven days after the season opened, "Old Case" announced: "This may be just a swallow. . . but I'm going to win the pennant...
...tempered, brawling Leo Durocher dared to go, whatever the provocation. Baseball's $50,000-a-year Commissioner "Happy" Chandler already had two strikes on The Lip for past crimes and misdemeanors; another brawl would be strike three and out. In 1947, Chandler had suspended Durocher for the season for "conduct detrimental to baseball." Twice recently he had disciplined Lippy for minor offenses: for hiring Coach Fred Fitzsimmons when Fred's old club wasn't looking, and for a pre-season row with an umpire...
...hour later, he stepped out the stage door and into his waiting limousine. He was not stepping into permanent retirement, though French Conductor Charles Munch would have the Boston next season. Said Koussy: "Only now I can do what I want to ... I will conduct when and where I wish." Yelled a crew-cropped Harvard student as he drove away: "Goodbye, Koussy...
Since the symphony's first touring season in 1944, when Swalin rounded up his musicians (mostly from the North) and a tiny $2,000 subsidy from the state, he has played hundreds of concerts for barefoot kids and grateful adults, in churches, schoolhouses and ballparks. Once he even shipped his "Little Symphony" aboard a Coast Guard cutter to play for the isolated people living on sandy Cape Hatteras. This year he hopes to cover 7,000 miles. To Swalin, now 48, "good music can uplift and ennoble people, and help them to better themselves...