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...Brooklyn Dodgers, who came within two games of winning the National League pennant last season, dismissed Manager Burt Shotton, longtime friend of the departed Branch Rickey. Brooklyn's new manager: pepperpot Charley Dressen, 52, onetime Brooklyn coach in the razzle-dazzle era of Larry MacPhail and Leo Durocher, manager last season of the Oakland Oaks, Pacific Coast League champions. Dressen, who got a one-year contract, said that his policy could be expressed very simply: "To win games for Brooklyn...
...Boudreau, former Cleveland Indian manager, was signed by the Boston Red Sox for an estimated $50,000 per year. Meanwhile, in Brooklyn, Bury Shotton was expected to get his walking papers today to make way for Charlie Dresson to pilot the Dodgers. Dresson, a former Brooklyn coach, managed the Cincinnati Rods from...
...Said Dodger Manager Burt Shotton: "Well, I guess that disposes of the Giants. I don't think we'll hear much more about them passing us this year." Retorted Giant Manager Leo Durocher, when he heard about it: "So the Dodgers have disposed of the Giants? Nuts to kindly old Burt. Just remind that silver-haired gentleman that we still have eight games to play with the Dodgers...
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...