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1946 • Baseball Clip • Leo Durocher discusses World Series · Retro Sports Radio: Classic Games from History

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  Since who Leo DeRosher, Chimney Sweep, America's number one suit destroyer, presents the famous
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  fiery manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Leo DeRosher in a sparkling new 15 minute program,
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  Your Sports Question Box. You send in the questions, any question on any sport or game, and Leo
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  of Chimney Sweep. Send in your question tonight. All questions become the property of Chimney Sweep.
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  And here's a masterminding manager of those dashing, slam bang Brooklyn Dodgers, Leo DeRosher.
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  Hi, you sports fans. It's great to be here with you today and to try to answer your sports question.
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  Right, Leo. And this is Frank Chase, who is going to swing your queries at the lip to answer fans.
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  And I hope you won't be mad if I don't fat a thousand every show.
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  I'm sure they won't, Leo. Just do your best. And now step up to the plate.
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  I'll do just that. And first of all, I want to answer some questions that have been tossed at me by
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  sports fans everywhere for the past week. And all on the current World Series, I'll bet.
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  Every one, Frank. And the one I've been asked most often is who's going to win the World Series.
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  And so who is going to be the winner? Well, Frank, I'll stick my neck out. In two words, the carton.
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  Well, now give us the lowdown on your figuring. Well, I figure that any club that can beat the
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  Dodgers can beat anybody. Okay, Leo. I hope you're right. So you were up there in Boston for three
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  days. What else was a special interest? Well, there was one thing in particular that I noticed.
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  5,000 fans in Brooklyn on any given day can make more noise than 35,000 fans made in Boston during
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  the World Series. Say, here's one that I heard a lot of them ask you, Leo. Would you have walked
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  Ted Williams to get at York in the first inning of that third game? Well, of course, all managers
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  figure different and have their own ideas. And I think that Eddie Dyer did a great job handling
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  his team in the games that I saw. Yeah, but you still haven't answered the question. Listen,
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  you're some men head. Dyer beat us 16 out of 24 games last season. Do you think I want to make
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  him mad at us for next year? Nice side stepping, Leo. Nice side stepping. And now on to the first
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  question from one of our known fans. Mr. Tom August of Locust Valley rigged this one up for it.
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  In a night ball game, the team at bat is one run behind and has a man on third. There are two
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  out. The pitcher winds up, throws the ball and the batter at the plate swings and connects.
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  Nothing very tricky about this one so far. Hang on to your hat. As the batter hits the ball,
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  the runner on third heads for home. With two out, what would you expect him to do? Sit on third base?
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  As the batter hits the ball, the runner on third base heads for home. And the lights in the ball
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  park go out. When they come on again a few seconds later, the runner on third has scored and the
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  batter is safe at first. And a pig's neck he is. You don't agree? I certainly don't. The rules say
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  that in a game momentarily interrupted by light failure, play is halted and all runners are sent
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  back to the base they started from. The hitter bats over again and the last ball thrown in where
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  they hit fair or foul or not hit at all is charged neither as a strike nor a ball. And that sends
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  And now back to Leo Durosha and Frank Chase and your questions on sports. A hockey fan, Kevin
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  Haggerty, would like you to tell him the final score of a hockey game in the case of a forfeit.
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  Well the score is one to nothing and that goes whether the game is between amateurs or professionals.
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  Five dollars for Mr. Haggerty. Here's one about the payboards, Leo. Look, Chase,
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  say cards when you mean cards. Sorry, Leo. I'll rephrase the introduction. Here's one about cards.
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  Go ahead. I'm waiting. In the game of poker asked Ms. Cynthia Lee of Bennington, do four races beat
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  a straight flush or does a straight flush beat anything in the deck? Well I guess they'll never
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  get through batting that one around. The answer depends somewhat on your own local rule. But the
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  best information I have to offer coming straight from the Frontier Club in Reno, Nevada is that a
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  straight flush beats anything anyone else can hold. Well you can't say the lip isn't definite,
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  Miss Lee. Understand I'm not kicking about four races, Miss Lee. Anytime you want to deal
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  them to me, I'll play you for table stakes. And we're sending you five dollars to start your game.
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  Here's one from the mouth of a disciple of Isaac Walton. Laying it right on the line,
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  he means it's a question from a fisherman. Nicely riddled, Leo. Now come up with the answer.
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  Mike Adams of Port Washington wants you to tell him if there's any recognized competition for
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  fly casting. Not one but several. There are all sorts of varieties of competitions from coast to
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  coast. There are competitions for wet fly casting and dry fly casting. For salmon fly, for distance
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  and for any number of weights of rod and line. And here's a pixie from a gal who must be riding
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  with her tongue in her cheek. Anything wrong with that? Wait until you hear the question, noisy.
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  Just keep that up, Applehead. You won't be able to ask questions much longer. Isn't it funny, Frank?
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  Just when you're beginning to hate the guy, he crosses you up by saying something sweet and
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  kind. Roberts, you'll be doing your announcing from Peoria next year. Well, Miss Steinsall of
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  Spring Lake wants you to answer her question no matter how you do it. Okay, what's the question?
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  The young lady wants to know which is the fastest, a horse, a camel or an ostrich. Okay, that's all
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  for the day. Pack your bags, boys, and we'll ride home in my dog's lap. You mean you're going away
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  mad, Leo? Look, my business is baseball. It's a tough job. It takes up most of my day. Yeah? So I
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  haven't got time to run around clocking the speed of camels and ostriches. But you do know something
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  about the speed of horses. The speed of the horses I know about shouldn't happen to a dog. Well,
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  anyway, here's the information we've dug up for you, Miss Steinsall. If the distance is under a
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  mile, take the ostrich. If it's between one and 10 miles, take the horse. And if it's over 10 miles
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  and you want to get to where you're going in a hurry, then thumb a ride on any passing camel.
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  Incidentally, $5 richer with the chimney sweep check we're sending you for your question.
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  And now Mr. Walter Drum of New York City asks, is it true that farlap raced in the money more
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  often than any other of the famous Australian race horses? No, it's not true. There was another
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  famous Australian horse called Glooming who had it all over farlap like a tent. Well, farlap was
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  pretty good, Leo, before he died in 1932. He won 37 races out of 51 starts. Yes, but this Glooming
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  was the real Australian money horse. Glooming went to the post 67 times. He was out of the money
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  once. He came in second nine times and stuck his nose over the wire ahead of the pack 57 times.
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  And that's what they call a red hot tip. Here's a funny one, Leo, but maybe you know the answer.
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  Well, if I don't, I promise you I'll at least make up a good story about it. Mr. Joe Lowell
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  of Brooklyn wants to know what famous ball player caught a I can even finish that question. A
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  baseball drop from the Washington Monument. It was Gabby Street of Washington. Are you all through
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  completely? What's the next question? Well, we'll start over again. Mr. Lowell of Brooklyn wants to
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  know what famous ball player caught a grapefruit tossed from an airplane. Oh, that one. Well,
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  first of all, the grapefruit was never really caught. But here's how the story goes. When
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  old Robbie, who did a great job managing the dodges for a long, long time was in spring training
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  camp one year, he made a bet with some of the men that he could catch a baseball drop from an
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  airplane flying at 400 feet. Boy, if I'd ever hit him on the head, it would have killed him. A lot
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  of the boys pointed that out to him, but Robbie was determined. So? So Frank Kelly, the trainer,
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  climbed into a plane and flew over the beach at the required height and let his missile go.
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  You mean a baseball? It should have been a baseball. But Kelly did a last minute switch and dropped a
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  grapefruit instead. Robbie saw a speck leave the plane and come whizzing down at him. He stood directly
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  under it with his feet well braced in the sand. Wham! came the grapefruit and smacked through his
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  hands. It banged against his chest, knocking him to his knees and drenched his face with juice.
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  Robbie was scared to death and shouted like a madman. I'm killed. I'm blind. It broke open my
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  chest. I'm covered with blood. Help me. Help me. And then came the roar of the crowd. I'll say the
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  speck kid has nearly killed themselves laughing. And what did poor Robbie do? Well, he was so scared
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  he forgot to be mad for quite some time. When he finally realized the gag that had been played on him,
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  he made life torture for the team all week. And after years, Robbie used to tell the story on
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  himself and laugh as loud as the next one. But when that grapefruit hit him on the chest,
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  he really thought he was a goner. And there you are, Mr. Lowell. That's the complete story on the
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  record for catching grapefruit thrown from airplanes. And five dollars to you for sending it in. Here's
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  one from a gent who's trying to put us on the spot, I think. And what's so different about him and
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  the other listeners? Meaning they're all trying to put you on the spot, Leo? Anyway, the question is
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  for Mr. Collins of Pittsburgh. He'd like you to name the four best forward pass combinations in
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  college football for all time. Here's a guy with big ideas. Well, do you want to stick your neck out
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  again? Here you are, Mr. Collins. Catch these. Doreus to Rockney, Notre Dame. Freedmen to Oosterbound,
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  Michigan. Howl to Hudson, Alabama. And Frank to Kelly Yale. Yes. And if you'd like another pair
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  to conjure with, Mr. Collins, you might add Hellitus Glidaney of your own home city college in
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  Pittsburgh. Boy, that ought to bring in the screams. In football, every fan does his own
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  experting and there are an awful lot of forward pass teams you left out, Leo. They just asked for
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  my opinion, Ken. That's what I'm giving him. And in tomorrow morning's man, you can bet you'll hear
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  from a lot of people who have opinions of their own. And now we come to the most interesting
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  question of the first show. Who do you think, Leo, is the better ball player? Stan Musial or Ted
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  Williams? Well, just before you come up with the answer to that one, Leo, I have the most interesting
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  back to the most interesting question of the week. And now Leo about that question. It's from
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  Kathleen Ford of Louisville, Kentucky. I remember Frank, the lady wants to know who I consider
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  the better ball player, Stan Muziel or Ted Williams, right? That's it Leo, give. Well,
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  they're two different type ball players. Ted Williams is a great hitter with tremendous home run
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  power and has a fine throwing arm and his running speed is above average. I personally
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  haven't seen too much of Williams in actual play, but from what I have seen, I don't consider him
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  a great fielder. That's Williams Leo. Now how about Muziel? Although Muziel does not have Williams
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  home run power, I consider him a better hitter and way above Williams in running speed. Although his
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  arm is not on a par with Williams, he is a much better fielder. Say, what about this defensive
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  infield shift that Cleveland originated against Williams and that the cards adopted in the series?
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  I'm glad that point came up because that illustrates why Muziel is the better hitter.
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  No team would dare shift its infield in that manner for Muziel because he hits to all field. So in
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  my book, I'll take Muziel over Williams. Then if Mr. Rickey gave you your choice of any ball player,
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  you'd take Stan Muziel. I never said that. I said I'd take Muziel over Williams. But if I have my
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  choice of any ball player, I'd take Joe DiMaggio despite his bad season. I think Joe DiMaggio is
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  the greatest all-around ball player I've seen in the last 10 years. Next question. First, $50 to
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  Kathleen Ford. And that's all for today, Leo. I want a few seconds to tell the fans how to send
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  in their questions. You know, folks, this is your sports question box. You send in the questions,
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  any question on any sport or any card game. For every question used on any program, we'll mail
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  the sender $5. But that's not all. If your question is judged most interesting of the week, we'll mail
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  you a check for $50. Just write your question on a plain piece of paper and be sure to include your
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  name and address. Mail to Leo DeRosier, American Broadcasting Company, New York City, 20, New York.
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  This is Leo DeRosier saying, see you next week, same time, same station, when I'll be back for
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