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...manager of the New York Giants, had thrown in the sponge. Leo Durocher, who was hated worse by Giant fans than any living man, had resigned as manager of the arch-rival Brooklyn Dodgers-to take over Ott's job. Soft-spoken old Burt Shotton had soft-shoed back from exile to take over the Dodgers...
...staying away from Ebbets Field; Rickey had cut down the number of cheaper seats, and sold down the river such Flatbush heroes as Dixie Walker and Eddie Stanky. And the Dodgers were wallowing in next to last place. Rickey couldn't help remembering the calm, sure way Burt Shotton had run the team (and won a pennant) when Durocher was kicked out of baseball last season (TIME, April 21, 1947). But Leo wasn't going to oblige. Said he to the messenger: "Hell no, I won't resign. He's going to have to fire...
...Dodgers and Giants were neck & neck in fourth place when Durocher and Shotton took over their new jobs last week. Whether either of them could now win a pennant would be one test of the big change. A more immediate test, and more crucial to the club owners, was whether the Giant and Dodger fans who had been staying away from their ball parks most of the season would now throng back...
...even managed to reassure Baseball Commissioner Happy Chandler (TIME, April 21) and the Catholic Youth Organization, two of the severest critics of his private life. Last week, Durocher got back his old job as manager of the Dodgers. There was also something in it for well-liked Burt Shotton, who had subbed for Durocher and won Brooklyn the 1947 pennant. He will become a sort of super-manager over the Dodgers' 26 farm clubs...
...nomination is Mr. Burt Shotton, manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers. In demonstrating that the vulgar crudities . . . are not, essentially, an integral part of a winning baseball team, Mr. Shotton has given a renewed respect, a freshened impulse, to our National Pastime...