Word: shotton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day the Dodgers fell apart. Having exhausted his slim staff of reliable starting pitchers, Manager Burt Shotton called on Don Newcombe again after only two days' rest; the Yanks bombarded him and Reliever Joe Hatten to win 6 to 4. On Sunday, even virus-ridden Joe DiMaggio came to life with his first home run-and second hit-of the Series. The Yankees slugged their way through six Dodger pitchers to a 10-to-6 victory and their twelfth World Series crown. Said Yankee Manager Casey Stengel: "We won from the bullpen. The difference in the teams...
...onto first place since the very first day of the season despite 70 injuries to their players, had fallen a game behind. In one of the most frenetic baseball weeks since 1908,* Joe McCarthy's Boston Red Sox had taken over first place. In the National League, Burt Shotton's Brooklyn Dodgers had been suddenly handed a one-game lead when the St. Louis Cardinals fell apart. The scene was set for a storybook finish...
...Burt Shotton has only two men he can start with confidence-- Rec and Newcombe--and seven behind them, of whom the best in none too steady...
Manager Bert Shotton of Brooklyn had only two first-rate pitchers: Newcombe...
...Barney Shotton did his darndest to help the umpires out. He had his boys storming out of the dugout San Juan Hill style and once had his batter ready to hit before the Boston pitcher had even picked up the ball. On the field Captain Reese seized the ball at the conclusion of each play and presented it immediately to pitcher Newcombe, depriving the Dodger infielders of those happy interludes of flinging the ball at each other's heads which they enjoy so much...