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When Horace Stoneham, the Giants' president, asked Ott what the club needed, Mel replied: "Maybe a new manager." Stoneham agreed. At last week's All-Star game in St. Louis,* Mel Ott and his boss secretly called it quits and set out to hire Durocher. But could Leo Durocher be hired...
...Stoneham yesterday, Mrs. Dorothy Lawson Noel, the youth's mother, stated that her son made known his intentions in a recent letter...
Because few enlisted men had so far asked for their dependents, the passenger list was top-heavy with officers' families. Among the fourteen generals' wives: Mrs. Mark W. Clark, Mrs. John C. H. Lee, Mrs. Lucius Clay; no less excited: Mrs. Frederick G. Mahn of Stoneham, Mass., wife of a second lieutenant...
...York Giants badly needed a catcher to replace old Ernie ("Schnozz") Lombardi. Like every other player-hungry boss, the Giants' Horace Stoneham knew where to go: St. Louis, where the Cardinals sat firmly on a large assortment of surplus talent, home from the war, with more coming. Last week Stoneham peeled off $175,000, the fourth largest sum ever paid for a single player, for Catcher Walker Cooper...
...prejudiced boss, wealthy Horace Stoneham, still thinks Ott is the best manager in baseball. There are more & more doubters every day, but even the doubters go on cheering for Master Melvin. So long as his legs and eyes hold out, Ottie will go on typifying baseball's big efforts to go on with the show...