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1950-Apr-22 - NYG/BKN - New York Giants vs Brooklyn Dodgers - Classic Baseball Radio Broadcast · Retro Sports Radio: Classic Games from History

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  This is Retro Sports Radio. Visit RetroSeasons
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  .com for more sports history. The New York Giants
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  faced the Brooklyn Dodgers on Saturday afternoon,
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  April 22nd. At Ebbets Field during the first
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  week of the 1950 baseball season, the Giants,
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  managed by Leo De Rocher in his second full year
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  as skipper, after taking over from Mel Ott midway
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  through the 1948 season, had been an average
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  team. never finishing above fifth place in the
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  National League for nearly a decade. The Brooklyn
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  Dodgers were also once managed by Leo Durocher
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  during the 1940s, but had been led by Bert Schotten
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  since 1948. This change in leadership occurred
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  after a deal was negotiated between Dodgers owner
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  Branch Rickey and New York Giants owner Horace
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  Stoneham, allowing Durocher to be released from
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  his Brooklyn contract to take over the Giants.
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  In this early season game, The Giants sent Jack
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  Kramer to the mound to face Dan Bankhead, who
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  was notably the first African -American pitcher
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  in the major leagues. This audio recording is
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  from the Dodgers radio broadcast featuring announcers
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  Red Barber and Connie Desmond. Join us now for
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  another Brooklyn ball game, brought to you by
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  your favorite Post Serials and their terrific
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  new teammate, Post Sugarcrisp. Yes sir, Post
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  is back to bring you the Dodgers again as they
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  take on the New York Giants in the second of
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  this three game series here at Ebbets Field,
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  Brooklyn, USA. This is the old redhead, Red Barber,
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  and Connie Dessin will be along in the middle
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  of the ball game and between us, we'll take care
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  of the play -by -play assignment. and your seat
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  behind home plate today. No matter whereabouts
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  in the United States you are, your seat is reserved
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  thanks to your loyalty to Post cereals and your
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  all -out cheers for sensational new Post sugar
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  crisps. So with Post as your host, let's look
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  around here in Everett Field and see what's on
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  the docks. Public address announcer Tex Rickards
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  is busily going down the respective batting orders
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  and as you can gather by the cheers, this locale
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  being Brooklyn, he's... giving the Brooklyn batters.
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  The starting pitchers will be Jack Kramer, the
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  veteran right -hander who was sold by the Boston
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  Red Sox during the winter to the New York Giants.
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  Kramer will be making his debut in the National
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  League. Jack Kramer will start for Leo DeRosha's
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  Giants. And Dan Bankhead, the first Negro pitcher
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  in the history of the major leagues, will get
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  his first starting assignment for the Dodgers.
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  And Bankhead was up and broke the ice a couple
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  of years ago at Brooklyn. He only got in four
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  games, and on every occasion was a relief pitcher.
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  So this is his major league starting debut, and
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  so thus it's a big afternoon for both of these
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  right -handers. Kramer, last year with the Red
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  Sox, won six and lost eight. He had a big year
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  with Joe McCarthy, if you'll recall, in 48 when
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  he won 18 and lost five. In 44 with the Browns,
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  Kramer won 17 and lost 13. That was the year
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  the Browns went for their only pennant. And in
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  the World Series against the Cardinals, he had
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  a win and was not defeated. Bankhead last year
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  was at Brooklyn's Montreal farm and he won 20
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  and lost six. Each of these pitches has pitched
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  impressively this spring and that explains why
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  they are getting the starting assignments. This
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  clear sunshiny, although it is a cool Saturday
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  afternoon here at Brooklyn. Now for the invading
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  Giants and it's always a hot time in Brooklyn
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  when the Giants come over. It's always a hot
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  time whenever these two clubs tangle anywhere.
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  Ed Stanky is leading off for the Giants. Whitey
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  Lockman hits number two in left field. Third
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  baseman Henry Thompson is batting third for New
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  York. Rookie Don Mueller, M -U -E -L -L -E -R,
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  is in right field. Center fielder Bobby Thompson.
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  There are two Thomsons. Center fielder does not
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  spell his name with a P in it. This is T -H -O
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  -M -S -O -N. Bobby Thompson in center. Alvin
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  Dogg, who came to the Giants along with Stanky
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  from the Braves and that big one of the Eel.
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  Dogg is at short. Jack Hoshman, the rookie first
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  baseman, hits seven. Wes Westrom is catching
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  and Kramer is the pitcher. The umpires have just
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  come out and there's a conference at home played
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  between the three wearers of the Blue Surge suits.
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  Groundkeeper Ed Durham. Alvin Dogg bringing up
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  the batting card for the Giants and Captain Peewee
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  Reese bringing up the batting order for the Dodgers.
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  And the Brooklyn batting order that Reese has
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  on his card is in this wire. Reese himself leading
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  off at short. George Schuba is in left field.
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  Jim Russell is in center field. Duke Snider is
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  the regular center fielder, but he has a heavy
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  cold, which has given him some trouble. He missed
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  the exhibition games of last weekend at the stadium
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  with the Yankees because of this same malady.
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  So Russell is in center. Russell played left
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  yesterday. His first game was a Dodger. They
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  got him from the Braves during the winter. And
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  he had a home run and a triple. Jackie Robinson.
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  a defending batting champion in the league's
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  most valuable player. Robinson at second is hitting
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  fourth for the Dodgers. Then comes Carl Forello
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  in right field. Hodges, the first baseman, is
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  batting sixth. Rookie Bobby Morgan, who is hitting
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  very well, hits safely in all three games. Morgan
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  at third. Roy Campanella, who was grand slam
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  home run in the third inning, sunk the Giants
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  beyond hope yesterday. Campanella catching. And
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  Dan Bankhead is the pitcher. The umpires, Douglas...
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  Scotty Robb is back at the plate. It's R -O -B
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  -B. Al Pollock and Augie Donatelli will be on
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  the bassist. And now Miss Gooding will play and
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  sing the National Anthem. That's how they feel
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  about it here at Evans Field. The Dodgers have
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  taken the field. Dan Bankhead, slender, loose
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  -jointed right -hander. Roy Campanella, stocky
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  catcher, that's the battery. Big Gil Hodges at
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  first base. Jackie Robinson at second. Captain
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  Peewee Reese at short. And rookie Bob Morgan
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  is at third. Billy Cox, who might have started
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  at third base, except he hurt his back, rejoined
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  the club yesterday and is recovering all right.
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  In left field, George Schubert, who's having
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  his second real chance with the Dodgers. Schubert
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  in left. In center field, Jim Russell, who's
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  turned out to be a very valuable player. Came
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  to the Dodgers in that Sam Jethro deal with the
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  Braves. And in right field, it is Carl Ferrello
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  from Reading, Pennsylvania, and they call him
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  the Reading Rifle. Now Ed Stanky is first up
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  for the Braves. With a crouch, right hand hitter,
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  bank hits first pitch. Fast ball high inside
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  for ball one. Stanky, this young season. Ball
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  of the Giants has three hits out of 12 at bats.
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  He's stocky, small, bends at the knees. I feel
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  a little twad left. Bankhead pitches low outside
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  for ball two. Sankey is one of the best judges
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  in all baseball of a pitched ball. He holds a
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  National League racket for bases on balls. And
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  nobody gave him any deliberate walks because
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  he was such an awesome hitter. He just earned
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  those walks. Bankhead throws, outside with a
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  curve, and he's behind ball three. No balls,
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  no strikes. This is a momentous occasion for
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  Bankhead. Trying to make the Brooklyn club. It's
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  his first start in a major league game. Leo de
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  Rocha, the Giants manager, his own third base
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  coach, Freddie Fitzsimmons, is coaching it first.
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  Now the three -all pitch. Ball for orange, thank
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  you, walks, closes that away. And off the first
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  deep trot, so Bankhead walks the first many pitches
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  too without throwing him a strike. And that's
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  a bit of a danger sign. And here's Robinson coming
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  in from second base. Campanella goes out to the
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  mound. Post Cereals, very happy to be your host.
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  B -O -S -T, Post. And the newest of the Post
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  Cereals is Sugar Crisp. Grand cereal and a swell
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  snack. And it's the hottest thing that's come
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  down the road. Look for them in the cellophane
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  bag at your friend the grocer's here. And in
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  addition to the words, Post and Sugar Crisp.
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  You'll notice there are three little honey bears
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  right on the front. Bankhead at Montreal last
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  year walked about as many fellas as he struck
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  out. He walked 170 and he struck out 176. Patti
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  Lachman, left hand hitter for the Giants batting
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  at 333. Takes a call strike. Bankhead came down
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  with a change. He slowed up one and headed over.
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  Campanella is most apt to make a pitch to use
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  a change of ball when he is getting wild, otherwise
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  he makes him stay away from the fast ball. Hodges
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  holding first against Stanky, who's not too fast
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  a runner. The Brooklyn infield halfway up, ready
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  to go either way. On a ground hit ball or a bunt.
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  Hatfield toward right, Lachman pulls. Fast curve,
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  swing on a fly ball out into center. Right to
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  Russell, who comes in, he can't get it. He gets
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  away from the ball, suddenly sunk. Stanky goes
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  onto second base and holds on. Russell seemed
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  to have that ball right there up against his
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  belt buckle. He just stood waiting. We said it
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  was right after Russell, then suddenly at the
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  last moment, he ran in a step and go for the
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  ball and had to trap it. The ball must have suddenly
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  sunk. The wind is not blowing in. The wind is
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  blowing out. So it wasn't a question of the wind
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  holding up the ball. It was a question of that
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  ball probably sinking. Sometimes those line drives
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  do that. So it is to be scored as a base hit.
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  So there's a break for New York. Break against
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  Bankhead. And let's see now whether the drives
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  can export this opening or just what happens.
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  Yesterday's ball game, the first meeting of these
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  two clubs. They dodged and hammered the Giants
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  early and often and beat them 8 to 1. The Giants
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  have lost all three of their games this year.
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  The Dodgers, after losing their first game with
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  Philadelphia, won the next two. So, Giants at
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  first and second, and Henry Thompson, the Negro
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  third baseman for the Giants, who broke the ice
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  for the Polo Grounders. Left -hand hitter is
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  up and takes a fast polo inside of Denise. Ball
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  one. One ball, no strikes. Down to the Brooklyn
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  bullpen, a fellow who wears number 15 by deliberate
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  design. Ralph Branca is warming up. Big towering
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  right -hander warming up with Sam Maron. The
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  Dodgers bullpen catcher. Caponello goes out to
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  the mound again to talk to Bankhead. Dom's in
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  trouble. He put himself in trouble by walking
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  Stanky without throwing a strike and then something
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  happened to that line drive and Russell, who
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  is a sure judge of a ball, didn't come up with
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  it. He's standing there waiting, competently.
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  1 -0 pitch. Quick curve in there for a tall strike.
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  One ball, one strike. The Dodger infield has
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  to be ready for the bunt if that's the way Leo
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  wants to play it. That of Thompson. This is T
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  -H -O -M -P -S -O -N, Henry Thompson, left hand
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  hitting third baseman. Getting a 375, three for
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  eight this year. In a crouch. The pitch. He takes
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  a curve. High inside for ball two. Two balls,
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  one strike. Bankhead. Born in Empire, Alabama.
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  Makes his home nine Memphis, Tennessee. 6 '1",
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  185 pounds. And probably the loosest looking
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  fellow on the mound you ever saw. In position.
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  Pitches. Fastball swung on and fouled back. So
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  the Giants have refused to go for the buck. And
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  the count is now two and two. Two balls, two
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  strikes. DeRosha coaching a third holler. All
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  right, Henry. So we have action at Ebbets Field,
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  Brooklyn. And there's always action here. Broadcasters
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  toward right. Groundkeeper Ed Durham. Under the
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  supervision of business manager Jack Collins,
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  got this ball parked manicured to where it looks
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  like you could eat off of it any place you wanted
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  to. Henry Thompson steps out to get Tyler Wade.
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  Two balls, two strikes, no score. The Giants
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  threatening here in the top of the first inning
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  at Ebbets Hill. Bankhead in position, Henry Thompson
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  crouches, severe crouch, left -hand hitter. Right
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  -hander, deals, curve, tip, and foul. And it's
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  good deal still. Campanella was fighting it like
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  it was a mad bumblebee trying to hold it. But
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  he couldn't do it. Catchers are not expected
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  to hold foul tips. There's never any other charge
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  against him. Any criticism leveled if they do
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  not hold them. If they do hold them, fine. If
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  they don't, well, that's the way it goes. Now
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  let's see. Bankhead coming to a stop. Looks at
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  second. Beals curve way outside the ball three.
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  He's a long way away from the plate on that one.
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  Three balls, two strikes. And visit your and
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  gum out there He doesn't look like he weighs
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  185 he is so bony and angular and he has a tremendously
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  loose hip motion Thank you at second Lachlan
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  at first. Thank you. Not too fast a second Lachlan
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  can fly at first in field and double play death
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  In two count they might be running. Let's see.
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  They pitch they don't go and that's a curveball
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  right for you It's up against the wall for an
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  extra nice hit Pace it on the bound. Senk is
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  coming around third toward the plate and scores
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  on the single and in the third goes Loughlin.
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  And it is 1 -0 New York. And DeRosha was right
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  when he didn't bunt Thompson when he produced
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  that base hit. So the Giants have gone out in
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  front and lead 1 -0. Have men at first and third
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  and nobody up. Looks like you're getting here
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  just in time because the pot is bubbling. Here
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  at Brooklyn. Here at Brooklyn. A .B. Chandler
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  is just coming in the ballpark now with President
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  Branch Rickey and they're taking a box down by
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  the Brooklyn dugout. You can see that also from
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  the commission staff is Dick Butler. Minutes
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  manager Jack Collins down there with them. The
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  commissioner was at Yankee Stadium yesterday.
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  Eversfield today. Bankhead making his first major
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  league start. Got nobody out. Pitching to his
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  fourth hitter. delivers Kerrball's one on hit
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  down to Robinson who's up for the first to reach
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  the second run out for the first double play
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  and Marklin scores the third and it's a 2 -0
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  win for the Giants. Simula bangs into a BP. It's
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  the first double play but the Dodgers have come
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  up against the Giants in their third double play
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  of the year. Marklin of course cruised in from
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  third on the double play so the Giants have two
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  runs in. Under the present scoring rules, Mueller
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  cannot be credited with an RBI, because the run
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  scored him, he was banging into an infield twin,
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  killing. Robinson to Reese and on to Hodges.
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  So to nothing, favor New York. Both runs earned,
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  and here is Bobby Thompson. Right hand hitting
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  very tall center fielder. Bankhead delivers,
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  the curve's going on, it's beaten down to the
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  big foul. Strike one. This kid, Bobby Thompson,
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  was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He's come a long
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  way, hasn't he? Horace, an infant, his family
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  moved to Staten Island, one of the five boroughs
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  in New York, and he came up with the Giants rather
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  than with the Dodgers. He never was a Dodger
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  player. Wonderful ballplayer. Hit .309 for the
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  Giants last year, 6 '2", 190 pounds. Backhand
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  pitches, fastball swung on, foul back. No balls,
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  two strikes. Leo de Rocha will tell you that
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  he believes... that this fellow up at the plate,
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  his center fielder, Bobby Thompson, T -H -O -M
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  -S -O -N, can, in 100 yards, outrun anybody in
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  baseball. He says he doesn't know whether Thompson
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  can outrun Jethro of the Braves at 60 yards,
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  but he knows he can at 100. Braves he can. This
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  fellow can fly. Long stride. Pitch. Strike three.
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  That's going over. So Bankett settles down. That's
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  looking to be right there in the pickle, that.
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  Two runs for the Giants. On two hits, the double
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  play finally turned the tide. So it's 2 -0 in
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  favor of the Giants, and the Dodgers are coming
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  in for their first licks for the afternoon. And
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  look here, friends, here's just a simple point
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  -blank question from the old redhead to all of
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  you. Do you eat cornflakes? Chances are you do.
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  But look, here's the important thing. There's
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  a difference in cornflakes, a real difference.
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  You up and try our post -toasters, and you'll
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  see just what we mean. Yes, sir, there's a difference
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  in corn flakes, and it's post -toasting that
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  makes that difference. Now once you eat them,
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  you'll agree. Post -toasters are extra crisp,
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  extra delicious, better in every way. Post -toasters
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  are fresher too, fresher than ever before. Now
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  so fresh that they taste just toasted. So next
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  time that you stop by Joe the Grocer's, don't
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  ask for corn flakes, ask for post -toasters,
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  the better corn flakes. That's Guaranteed Fresh
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  Post Hostess, one of the famous post -serials.
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  Try them all here. This is a rather historic
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  broadcast, as we told you at the beginning, and
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  the post -serial folks are very happy to make
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  it possible, working in cooperation with the
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  Brooklyn Ball Club and WMGM, which is a station
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  that for eight years has been doing all the Brooklyn
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  games in New York, because today... stations
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  of the Columbia Broadcasting System are joining
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  in too, with the coverage outside of New York.
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  And so it is coast -to -coast coverage of baseball's
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  most colorful, dynamic team, the Dodgers. And
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  we are glad to have you along. You come with
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  us all the home Saturdays at Brooklyners at Evans
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  Field. And you see on your baseball schedules
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  that the Dodgers are gonna be in Brooklyn. And
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  we're gonna be with you. You're gonna help us
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  be there too by the fact that you tell Joe the
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  grocer that you want to post -toast it. Or any
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  of the post -cereals. Or the newest, the sugar
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  cricks. Okay, here we go with Captain Peewee
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  Reese and Jack Kramer making his first start
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  in the National League. Comes down with a little
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  strike over the plate. Kramer's a trim looking
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  right -hander. He throws a fastball, throws slow
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  curves. Good control. Reese missed three for
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  14. Getting a 2 -14 right now. Kramer pumps.
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  Kicks, throws. There's a shot there. Rolls the
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  ball straight to K -R -A -M -E -R. Jack Kramer.
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  Atfield straight to short left. Reese swings
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  from the end. Swings and there's a high pop fly
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  in the short left center. Left fielder Lachman's
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  in. Unrich. Unrich. And he takes it for number
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  one. Go ahead one up and one's on for Brooklyn.
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  Last for the first hitting. The Giants leading
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  two to nothing. And this is baseball's most heated
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  rivalry. Giants and the Dodgers. And the Roasters
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  and the Giants trying so hard to win their first.
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  They've been under very heavy criticism for losing
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  their first three. especially in the face of
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  that big deal that was made with the Boston Braves
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  during the winter. You know, when Stanky and
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  Dock came from Boston to New York, and the Giants
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  sent Sid Gordon, Willard Marshall, Buddy Carr,
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  and Sam Webb to the Braves. And then the first
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  two games of the season, the Braves played the
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  Polo Grounds, won them both. And in the second
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  game, Gordon hit two home runs, won a Grand Slammer.
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  Boy, that's really having a boomerang come back,
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  hits right between the eyes. But as Leo said
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  today, it's a long season. George Schuba, left
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  -hand hitter, takes a high outside fastball.
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  Or one. Chuba has one break. He's being given
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  another chance. At the around toward right, right
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  side of the infield is back. It's a bright sun
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  and a bright sky. Pitch. Little curve right over
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  for a false strike. Kramer's one of these fellows
• 22:17
  with pumps and pumps and hitches and tries to
• 22:19
  catch you between swings. Pitches a great deal
• 22:22
  of the style of feature role by the admission
• 22:26
  of Kramer's new manager, DeRosha. Meldham Stock
• 22:29
  is the Brooklyn third base coach. Jake Fittler,
• 22:33
  old Sugarfoot Jake. This is his 56th birthday.
• 22:36
  Fittler coaches his first. Weston gives the sign.
• 22:39
  Kramer pitches and Schuber takes a fastball low
• 22:42
  outside for a ball two. Kramer kicked on it,
• 22:47
  that's where the pitch was and played up a lob
• 22:49
  motion outside. Third baseman Henry Thompson
• 22:53
  is about three full steps over toward short.
• 22:57
  Short step dark is almost directly behind the
• 22:59
  bag. The outfield is one drastically in the right
• 23:01
  and they are playing Schubert wider than I've
• 23:03
  seen any ball club play in the full toward right
• 23:05
  field. In other words, straightaway left field
• 23:08
  is wide open and inside third base it's wide
• 23:10
  open. Sugar takes a curve over good for a second
• 23:13
  strike to undo. Two balls, two strikes. They're
• 23:17
  really ganged up in the right field on this fellow.
• 23:23
  Pitler hollering down from first base. Come on,
• 23:25
  George, you're the fella. Jack Framer with one
• 23:30
  out, pitching his first inning in the National
• 23:33
  League. He's fidgeting around out there on the
• 23:37
  mound. There's nobody on base. Pumped once. Pumps
• 23:40
  twice, right -handed kicks, high throws, fastball
• 23:42
  swirled off, real deep on the right center fielder,
• 23:45
  back goes Thompson way back in the corner, and
• 23:46
  makes the catch, 390 feet away in the right center
• 23:50
  fielder corner. First fielder, tagged it, but
• 23:52
  it's just out on the two. Two man gone, and Jim
• 23:56
  Russell trying his second game as a Dodger. He's
• 24:02
  a switch hitter, or some people say a turnaround
• 24:04
  hitter, and he's batting left -handed against
• 24:07
  right -handed Kramer. Russell went two for four
• 24:10
  yesterday. He hit a home run and he hit a triple.
• 24:14
  And for every home run that is hit in a Brooklyn
• 24:16
  ball game or every shutout pitch, there is an
• 24:18
  award of a case of post sugarcrisp. So Russell
• 24:22
  collected yesterday. The pitch, fastball on the
• 24:29
  outside. Ball one. Famous monkeys around, pitches
• 24:33
  here, pitches there. Al Balik, the first baseman,
• 24:38
  probably just noticed that the bag had been kicked
• 24:39
  a little bit out into foul ground, so he runs
• 24:41
  up there and kicks it back into fair. Attention
• 24:47
  to small details, very important. I'm prying
• 24:49
  anything else. Slow curve outside to Russell,
• 24:52
  and it is ball two. Two balls, no strikes. Dark
• 24:57
  is coming in from short at his talking to Kramer.
• 25:00
  Apparently Dark must have noticed that Kramer
• 25:02
  has kicked on a couple of decisions. plate maybe
• 25:05
  saying something to him. Johnson on top two to
• 25:12
  nothing. He got two runs off Dan Bankhead right
• 25:15
  at the bell. Bankhead began his own difficulties
• 25:18
  by walking Stanky. That's the first rule in the
• 25:21
  book of pitches. Don't walk him and certainly
• 25:23
  don't walk that first. Two -nothing pitch. Curve
• 25:30
  outside the ball three. Three balls and a strike.
• 25:35
  In case you didn't join us on this broadcast,
• 25:37
  we're the best buskers. It's post -serials. Thank
• 25:39
  you, Walk. Went to second base as Lockman's line
• 25:43
  driver apparently suddenly sank in front of Russell.
• 25:45
  Russell seemed to have it caught all the way
• 25:46
  and then dove for it and too late. Thompson single
• 25:50
  off the right through wall again. One mule hit
• 25:51
  him to a double play and the second run came
• 25:52
  over. There's a call strike for Russell on the
• 25:54
  outside. Fine crowd here at Ebbets Field and
• 25:58
  the Dodgers and Johnson will be here tomorrow.
• 26:01
  Game time tomorrow 2 o 'clock and business manager
• 26:04
  Collins told us before today's game. There are
• 26:06
  14 ,000 seats of all kinds that will be available
• 26:08
  on sale at the park tomorrow when the gates are
• 26:11
  open around noon. 3 -1 pitch, ball four and Russell
• 26:15
  becomes the post guard runner with a base on
• 26:17
  ball. Jackie Robinson who is hitting so far with
• 26:24
  six hits for 11 at bat at 5 .44 the defending
• 26:28
  batting champion. Presented by Fort Prick yesterday,
• 26:33
  with a silver replica of a baseball bat sent
• 26:38
  by the Louisville Slugger people. The Hillary
• 26:41
  Memorial bat, emblematic of winning the batting
• 26:44
  title last year. It was also voted the league's
• 26:46
  most valuable player. Robinson's weight now is
• 26:48
  208 pounds. He's in fine shape. Playing him straight
• 26:53
  away. Wind is blowing to right field. Curve is
• 26:57
  good on the outside for a false strike. Jack,
• 27:00
  I think, is a little unhappy about it, but he
• 27:02
  doesn't turn around. For the Giants, the veteran
• 27:06
  Jack Cramer, making his first National League
• 27:08
  appearance. He was formerly over there in the
• 27:10
  American League with the Browns and the Red Sox.
• 27:12
  Wes Westrom is catching. Jack Hoshman at first.
• 27:16
  Russell is leading off at that point. Two out.
• 27:19
  Stanky at second. Alvin Dock at short. The third
• 27:21
  baseman is Henry Thompson. Cramer in position.
• 27:24
  Beals curve high. And it is all one. It was very
• 27:28
  high. One ball went right. In left field for
• 27:31
  New York, Buddy Lachlan. The center fielder is
• 27:34
  Bobby Thompson. And the right fielder is Don
• 27:37
  Mueller. Hit the umpires again. It is Doug, Scotty
• 27:42
  Robb, back of the plate. Al Balik is at first
• 27:46
  base. And Donatelli, rookie National League umpire,
• 27:48
  this is his second series in the National League,
• 27:50
  is at second. Kramer coming down to his set position.
• 27:58
  Delivers, Robinson swings, and the ball is a
• 28:00
  bit sneaky. Take a little bit off of it. One
• 28:05
  ball, two strikes. The crowd's a little quiet
• 28:14
  for the moment, but they don't stay quiet at
• 28:15
  Brooklyn Long. Robinson holding it club down
• 28:23
  by the end. Strong right hand hitter. George
• 28:30
  Sissler has helped him a great deal to become
• 28:31
  the fine batter that he is. One and two pitch.
• 28:36
  Curve outside. Jack takes it for a ball two.
• 28:41
  Two balls, two strikes. Freeman, in no hurry
• 28:48
  at all, back to the mound, put him in the rosin
• 28:51
  bag. Two and two. Crackle, ready to get up and
• 29:07
  go. It's as quick as you can say, sugar crisp,
• 29:10
  and the thing happens, he's two out. Pitch, curve,
• 29:13
  strong hit, down ball, take away from Sankey.
• 29:15
  Goes up with it, the throw goes over to first,
• 29:17
  Robinson's out by two running steps. Sankey to
• 29:19
  Hoshman, and that's all for the last of the first
• 29:21
  inning. There's really nothing to it when you
• 29:23
  add it up. So the end of the first inning. Two
• 29:27
  runs, they're both Aaron, two hits to no errors
• 29:29
  for the Giants. For the Dodgers, no runs, no
• 29:32
  hits to no errors. Now let's see what's on the
• 29:35
  post scoreboard, and then we'll see about identifying
• 29:37
  the stations, so let's see. In the National League,
• 29:40
  nothing yet on the Cardinals and the Cubs. Philadelphia
• 29:44
  playing at Boston, Kurt Simmons will go for the
• 29:46
  Phillies, and Warren Spahn, top -winning left
• 29:48
  -hander in the league last year, will go for
• 29:50
  the Braves. Spahn making a second start, but
• 29:52
  he beat the Giants opening day. Cincinnati's
• 29:55
  at Pittsburgh, and at the end of the first inning
• 29:56
  it is 3 -0 in favor of the Pirates. Hepke for
• 29:58
  Cincinnati and Chesney's for Pittsburgh. In the
• 30:00
  American League, Washington is playing New York
• 30:03
  at the stadium, Steve Nagy for Washington, and
• 30:05
  Bob Porterfield starting for the Yankees. Staub
• 30:08
  is starting for the Boston Red Sox at Philadelphia
• 30:10
  against Alex Kellner, and that gets you up to
• 30:12
  date. And now, let's take a 20 -second pause
• 30:15
  for station identification. Hi everybody, and
• 30:40
  those of you who may have just joined us, this
• 30:42
  is Red Barber speaking to you for post -serials
• 30:44
  from behind home plate at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn.
• 30:47
  The Giants are at bat in the second inning, Alvin
• 30:49
  Dark first up, and New York is ahead of Brooklyn
• 30:51
  two to nothing. Dan Bankett, the Dodgers, delivers
• 30:53
  a fastball that's drilled in for a Carl Sparks.
• 30:57
  Dark is hitting at 417, he's gotten off to a
• 30:59
  good start with the bat. He has five for 12.
• 31:02
  He's a fine ball player. Open stance, feet wide
• 31:07
  apart. No ball, two strikes. Atfield. Swing around
• 31:25
  into left. Infield is at the step because this
• 31:27
  fella can run. Dough. Backs out of there. Takes
• 31:31
  the heavy end of his bat. Knocks some play out
• 31:33
  of his spikes. The infield has been treated with
• 31:39
  Molder's sand this year. It is a darkish gray
• 31:43
  color. Back to McStark chasing a low outside
• 31:49
  hook. Second stack out for Daniel and rookie
• 31:54
  Jack Hoshman stepping up. H -A -R -S -H -M -A
• 32:01
  -N. Jack Hoshman. Minneapolis last year hit 270.
• 32:10
  Boy indigenous to San Diego, California. 6 '2,
• 32:13
  180 pounds. Do nothing, favor the Giants. Fine,
• 32:20
  sunny afternoon. Hoshman takes fastball, just
• 32:22
  too long. Ball one. We'll keep you posted on
• 32:45
  the other ballgames as they go along. I think
• 32:59
  that pitch is 2 -0. The end of the first inning
• 33:03
  in the ballgame between the Washington Nation
• 33:05
  and the New York Yankees was 1 -0 for the Yankees.
• 33:07
  So that's not a good start this year. The Red
• 33:10
  Sox. are leading at Philadelphia over the Athletics
• 33:13
  3 -0 at the end of inning and a half. At the
• 33:16
  end of two innings now, Philadelphia -Boston
• 33:18
  in the National League, it's no score. The 2
• 33:20
  -1 pitch to Harshman, foul tipped, and it's now
• 33:22
  2 -2. The Cincinnati -Pittsburgh game is now
• 33:27
  at the end of three innings, and it is 6 -1 in
• 33:30
  favor of the Parrots behind Bob Chesney. Hepke,
• 33:32
  who started for Cincinnati, was replaced in the
• 33:35
  second inning by Kirk Peterson. That's the old
• 33:43
  round to the right. Poshman left hand hitter.
• 33:49
  Claim to call. This year he's had two hits for
• 33:51
  11 at bats. Walker 182. But percentages are not
• 33:55
  too indicative this early. 2 -2 pitch. Flash
• 33:58
  ball. Foul tip. Still 2 -2. Thank you. Turn that
• 34:02
  one loose. 2 -2. He can throw that ball. Sets.
• 34:29
  No livers. Another foul ball. It's on the screen.
• 34:32
  Two and two. Two balls, two strikes. Chance two.
• 34:39
  Fudge is nothing. The wind is rather gusty this
• 34:51
  afternoon. At times it is strong and it seems
• 34:54
  to slow down. But the prevailing course of the
• 34:57
  wind is out to right field, which is the short
• 34:59
  field here at Eversfield. Those of you who have
• 35:01
  never seen the park and heard about it, maybe
• 35:03
  we'll better describe it for you. He took a pitch
• 35:06
  to Hartman and swung on a ground foul outside
• 35:08
  first. Pitch seven stops at his foot. Still two
• 35:13
  and two. Right field at Eversfield is one of
• 35:16
  the famous fields in all athletics. at this baseball
• 35:19
  alone. It's a concrete wall in right field, which
• 35:25
  goes up 20 feet off the ground. Then there is
• 35:28
  an abyss of 20 feet of wire screen on top of
• 35:31
  it. So the right field fence, while it is short
• 35:33
  here at Brooklyn, is very high. It's 40 feet
• 35:35
  high. So you just don't pop one into Bedford
• 35:38
  Avenue, which is a big six lane highway in back
• 35:42
  of it, or just a little bonded ball. Two -two
• 35:45
  pitch. Three balls, two strikes. Bankhead really
• 35:59
  wound up, and he can wind up on himself, too.
• 36:02
  The distance down the right field line in Brooklyn,
• 36:04
  which is relatively short, is 297 feet. Bankhead's
• 36:07
  at the back of the mound. However, in right center
• 36:11
  field, the wall standing away is 395 feet. Then
• 36:15
  you have double deck stands beginning in right
• 36:17
  center field. And going all the way around the
• 36:20
  rest of the park and coming right back in to
• 36:22
  the right field corner. In other words, it is
• 36:24
  just right field itself that has the wall. 20
• 36:26
  feet of concrete, 20 feet of screen, and the
• 36:28
  scoreboard is also out there. And the scoreboard
• 36:29
  is stuck out in front of it, which causes a series
• 36:31
  of angles. The 3 -2 pitch. Strike 3, 3, and the
• 36:35
  curve ball is hung on. Well, Bankhead has struck
• 36:39
  out the first two here in the second inning.
• 36:42
  Three strikeouts all goal. He got off to a shaky
• 36:45
  start, walking stanky, and then having Lachman's
• 36:48
  line drive sink in front of Russell when it looked
• 36:50
  to be a certain catch for it out. Then Thompson
• 36:53
  hit the right field wall for a single, the wall
• 36:55
  we were talking about. Mueller banged into a
• 36:56
  double play. The Giants had two runs, but from
• 36:58
  that time on, Bankhead has gotten five outs,
• 37:02
  pitching to his last four men. Wes Westrom, the
• 37:05
  right -hand -hitting catcher for the Giants,
• 37:07
  been around parts of the last two years. Open
• 37:11
  stance, takes a curve outside, ball walk. Westrom
• 37:15
  this year has not come up with a base hit, and
• 37:17
  he's been up officially six trips. Two -nothing.
• 37:21
  Play with the Giants. Always business when the
• 37:24
  Giants and the Dodgers are on hand. So, better
• 37:30
  ball low inside. Ball two. Posterior folks from
• 37:38
  Bible Creek, Michigan way. Very happy to be sending
• 37:41
  you this ball game from Brooklyn way. And whenever
• 37:46
  the Dodgers are home on Saturday. So will come
• 37:49
  these broadcasts. Two -nothing pitch. Curve over.
• 37:55
  Good. Ball struck. Two balls, one strike. One
• 38:02
  -one. That field toward left. Play Western to
• 38:08
  pull. Bank had a right -handed deal. Fastball
• 38:14
  low outside. Four ball free. See that one hard.
• 38:21
  Simmons pushing in first. Hey, Wes, come on.
• 38:24
  Get a good ball. Emmett's Field is one of the
• 38:28
  smallest ball parks in the major leagues. It
• 38:29
  seats nominally about 32 ,000. And part of its
• 38:33
  great charm is its complete and immediate intimacy
• 38:37
  with the game itself. You're never far away from
• 38:39
  the players. 3 -1 pitch. Curve swung on and fouled.
• 38:42
  On top of the third base stands, now to the park.
• 38:44
  3 and 2. So whenever you are, you're actually
• 38:47
  in the ball game, so to speak. You don't have
• 38:50
  any great chasms and caverns and yawning distances,
• 38:54
  etc. You can see the players here, here with
• 39:02
  the coaches side. There's a lot of truth in the
• 39:09
  statement that is endured through the years.
• 39:11
  There's never a dull day with the Dodgers and
• 39:13
  certainly never at Eddard's Field. in the atmosphere
• 39:18
  right here. Something's gonna happen that'll
• 39:19
  happen here at Brooklyn. Three -two pitch. The
• 39:23
  high fly ball. Resultant deep out in the left
• 39:25
  center. Russell, the center fielder, is under
• 39:27
  it, waiting. We've got it. There goes the ball.
• 39:30
  Nothing is false for the Giants. In the top half
• 39:32
  for the second inning. At the end of the inning
• 39:34
  and a half, it remains New York 2 and Brooklyn's
• 39:37
  nothing. Carl Forello. Coming on now to be first
• 39:43
  up for the Dodgers, last for the second inning.
• 39:45
  Followed by Gil Hodges and then by Bob Morgan.
• 39:48
  Jake Pettler coaching at first base for the defending
• 39:50
  National League Champions. Melvin Stark at third.
• 39:54
  Rello, who was hitting in August and September,
• 39:56
  had much to do with Brooklyn coming up for the
• 39:58
  planet. He was hitting almost 500 there in the
• 40:01
  stretch, and that's the mark of the ball fair
• 40:03
  that he is. Rello hitting now, 3 -15, 231. At
• 40:08
  the old, back into right. Stanky on order from
• 40:12
  Drossian. The bench moves back deep to second
• 40:14
  base. Right -handed Kramer pitches a curve. It's
• 40:17
  a called strike. It's a big, slow bender. Look
• 40:20
  away from him. He caught the inside slice. No
• 40:24
  balls. One strike. Throw something in his eye.
• 40:34
  Steps out of the box for the moment. Kramer pumping.
• 40:42
  Better than right -hander. Kick throws. Let a
• 40:45
  ball in on the hands. He tried to make that look
• 40:47
  like the pitch just now when he broke the curve
• 40:49
  off the hands and over. Atrello stayed off of
• 40:51
  it, and the count goes to one and one. Kramer
• 40:56
  uses a lot of slow stuff. Manager bird shot into
• 41:01
  the Dodgers who doesn't wear a uniform. Sitting
• 41:04
  back there in the dugout. 21 -pitch, fastball,
• 41:09
  low outside. Ball two. and then the fastball,
• 41:20
  trying to crisscross from the outside. Two balls,
• 41:22
  one strike. Well, it's looking to stick just
• 41:29
  a little. He's quite strong. Two on pitch, fastball
• 41:33
  outside, four ball free. So, three miles behind,
• 41:36
  now three and one. Still has the orders. He looks
• 41:39
  at third base coach Milton Stock. He usually
• 41:41
  is the central man in the Brooklyn wigwag system.
• 41:44
  Stock, of course, keeps his eyes glued on Boss
• 41:46
  Shotton. They're in the dugout for the word.
• 41:49
  In the Major League, these fellows just don't
• 41:50
  go out there and do as they please, take orders.
• 41:59
  The 3 -1 pitch. Swung on, hit sharply down the
• 42:01
  short. Alvin Dock is up for the 20th time for
• 42:03
  the throw to first, which is accurate for the
• 42:05
  hospital, and Trello's up by two steps. The old
• 42:08
  foul was hitting, and Dock dropped the first.
• 42:12
  Gil Hadges, big first baseman, stepping up. Well,
• 42:22
  to the straightaway lower center field stand,
• 42:24
  it's 393 feet. Right center field to the lower
• 42:27
  stands. Double decked out there, 351. And in
• 42:30
  the left field corner, 348. Big Hodges, he's
• 42:35
  really been hotter than a two dollar pistol.
• 42:39
  Hitting at 700, 7 for 10. Big strong staff and
• 42:43
  right hand batter. Outfield toward right. Takes
• 42:45
  a fastball for a false right from the outside
• 42:47
  above the knee. Hodges is a magnificent athletic
• 42:51
  specimen. I don't know of anybody who has ever
• 42:53
  seen him that wants any part of it. He has the
• 42:56
  least trouble of any man on the face of the earth.
• 43:02
  And he's awfully good -natured, which everybody
• 43:04
  says, they're just grand. But if you're that
• 43:05
  strong, you ought to be good -natured. He's just
• 43:25
  coming into his own as a ball player. Big strong
• 43:33
  guy from Indiana. 21 pitch, swung on as a high
• 43:36
  ball deep under... Two to one game in favor of
• 44:28
  the Giants. Morgan takes a good curve, false
• 44:32
  strike. Looks like he says his mind is as big
• 44:37
  and strong just in time. Infield straight away
• 44:47
  on Bobby Morgan, who was the batting champion,
• 44:49
  hitting his 337th International League last year,
• 44:52
  and the league's most valuable player. Takes
• 44:54
  a fast ball high inside, ball one. Pushing up
• 45:02
  one from there after another to the Dodgers.
• 45:07
  The great baseball dynasty being built for Brooklyn.
• 45:19
  Tamer wants to sit with another baseball, so
• 45:21
  an exchange of advocates is made. That in the
• 45:24
  argument got played on by Rob. bringing up to
• 45:35
  date on all the games on the focus scoreboard
• 45:37
  as soon as the second inning is concluded. So
• 45:40
  you hang around here. 21 pitches to Kerr, come
• 45:43
  on and hit the foul. Out to that third baseman
• 45:45
  with a pretty high shot. Ball is hit down toward
• 45:49
  the giant bullpen, which is in the left field
• 45:50
  corner. The giant and the visiting teams at Ebbets
• 45:55
  Field use the dugout on the third base side and
• 45:57
  the bullpen in the left field corner. The home
• 46:00
  club, the Dodgers, use the dugout on the first
• 46:02
  base side. And the both end in the right field
• 46:04
  corner. Morgan in the pouch. Morgan strikes it
• 46:13
  down. Same old pump one. Better right hander
• 46:17
  once again. Kick time throws and Morgan spouses
• 46:21
  it back. 0 -1 and 2. He's rated by a lot of annoying
• 47:23
  baseball people as the best catcher in the game.
• 47:26
  Why not? Stocky, powerful catcher every day.
• 47:32
  Hatfield, around to what left? Payment delivers
• 47:34
  and Capitola sits down. That's all right. Down
• 47:38
  he went. There's a fastball. As the ball players
• 47:45
  say, that would have been stuck in his ear if
• 47:47
  he hadn't done it. baseball you don't think so
• 47:53
  in fact is anybody who is connected with baseball
• 47:57
  with this when you say that it's a game players
• 48:02
  their wives club executives it's a business and
• 48:07
  it's a rough game frame of deals and capital
• 48:12
  swings and calls it off nice ball coming in there
• 48:15
  took just a little bit off of it one -on -one
• 48:23
  Fine crowd on hand, headed by Commissioner Chandler,
• 48:27
  who's sitting down in the field box, branch breaking
• 48:29
  the serves and the dodges. 21 -50. False strike.
• 48:40
  On the outside, drove the knee. One ball, two
• 48:43
  strikes. Two men out, chance leading by a tally,
• 48:47
  two to one. really intricately out toward right.
• 49:29
  If they win, it would help a high drive hit toward
• 49:31
  right field. It would hold up to some degree,
• 49:34
  a high fly ball hit out into left. It would help
• 49:38
  on the bias, the ball hit high out in the center.
• 49:43
  Two to six, curve going on, hit out into right
• 49:45
  field, there's Hewlett back up against the goal,
• 49:47
  but waiting for it, he makes the catch and can't
• 49:49
  hold up into the top. So, Hodges is out at one,
• 49:53
  and it's the run and the hit. at the end of two
• 49:55
  innings, two runs, two hits, and no errors for
• 49:57
  the Giants. One run, and one hit, and no errors
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  for Brooklyn. All right, we've been promised
• 50:05
  that it'd be 7 -1 at post scoreboard. Now let's
• 50:07
  take a look around. The Cardinals, who won their
• 50:10
  first game and have lost their next three, are
• 50:12
  at Chicago, where Bob Rush of the Cubs shut them
• 50:15
  out yesterday, 2 -0. And Staley, who pitched
• 50:18
  the opening game and the one victory for the
• 50:20
  Cardinals so far, is going to St. Louis. Bill
• 50:22
  Boydell. Who is now at his third ball club in
• 50:24
  the league. From the Giants to the Braves and
• 50:26
  now to the Cubs. Boiselle is making his first
• 50:28
  start as a Cub for Chicago. Big right -hander.
• 50:32
  Philadelphia's at Boston. Kurt Simmons, who's
• 50:33
  counted on so much by Philadelphia, that young
• 50:36
  hustling club that Bob Cobb has put together.
• 50:38
  Simmons starting for Philadelphia and Warren
• 50:40
  Spahn, who's already pitched and won a ball game,
• 50:42
  and a complete win for the Braves. No score in
• 50:44
  the two innings. In the three innings, Cincinnati
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  -Pittsburgh. It is 6 -1, favor the Parrots. That
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  test is for Pittsburgh. Hepsey started and then
• 50:53
  Kent Peterson for Cincinnati County on the second
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  inning. In the American lay, Washington will
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  roll off 1 -0 in favor of the Yankees end of
• 50:59
  the first inning. Boston and Philadelphia will
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  be nothing in favor of the Red Sox over the Athletics.
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  Nothing yet on Chicago, Detroit or Cleveland,
• 51:06
  St. Louis, but we'll have results later. Now
• 51:24
  a move into the third inning, and pitcher Jack
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  Kramer is the first jive hitter. Atfield, back
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  of the right. The wind has shifted and is blowing
• 51:35
  up toward the right field corner now. Kramer,
• 51:38
  right hand hitter. Bankhead pitcher, the curve,
• 51:39
  over first strike. Kramer hasn't been up in the
• 51:43
  National League this year, so of course we don't
• 51:45
  have any batting percentage for him. high inside,
• 51:56
  another hand, ball one. One and one. Things going
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  quietly for the second. They won't stay that
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  way long here at Brooklyn. Two on favor of the
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  Giants. Bankhead's pitch, fastball is tied inside
• 52:12
  for ball two. that he targets thereafter. Pitch.
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  Oh, second strike, fast forward on the outside.
• 52:33
  Now, Kramer steps out of there and starts arguing
• 52:35
  with Rob a little bit. Going to. Rocha is hollering
• 52:47
  from where he's putting a third base to Rob.
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  The first three men for the Giants got off. And
• 53:24
  nobody else was shot. Two to one, favorite New
• 53:27
  York over Brooklyn. Primo putting on his jacket
• 53:30
  going back in the dugout. Stanky is hitting at
• 53:35
  250, three for 12. Bankhead deals. Flash ball
• 53:44
  high inside, ball one. And he hasn't gone as
• 53:46
  fast as Stanky today. He walked him on four straight
• 53:49
  pitches. Again, matters this afternoon. That's
• 54:00
  the logo for us, right? just opened up getting
• 55:29
  two runs off Boydell and getting him out of the
• 55:31
  ball game at Chicago. Boydell hit 2 -0. Bankette
• 55:34
  pitches 2 -2 to the tanky. And the curve gets
• 55:37
  into the outside, and now the Brooklyn battery
• 55:40
  is complaining. She lost to Price. Boydell started
• 55:47
  to the Cubs. The Cubs got him out of there, and
• 55:48
  Johnny Vandermeer, who were doing the winter,
• 55:50
  went from the red to the Cubs, took over. So
• 55:53
  the Cubs were bad in the last, the first inning,
• 55:55
  and the Cubs were hit 2 -0. the Dodgers here
• 56:01
  to have a feel. Two on. Thank you, Zahidah. One
• 56:05
  out. Nobody on. Three -two pitch. Outside for
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  ball four. So thank you for the second straight
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  time, Jordan Walk. Two walks beaten up by Bankhead.
• 56:21
  Whitey Lachlan, who is singled in the center
• 56:23
  field. First inning. He's hitting the 375, 6
• 56:29
  to 16. second at bat. The Pittsburgh Pirates
• 56:33
  at the end of four innings are now leading the
• 56:35
  Reds 9 -1 in the Pittsburgh game. Beard has hit
• 56:39
  a home run. Westlake has hit one to give him
• 56:42
  three in two days. Hernandez has hit one and
• 56:44
  Kynah has hit one his second in two days for
• 56:46
  the Pirates. Bankhead starts to get ready and
• 56:51
  then throws over to first. He's learned a great
• 56:56
  deal since he first got the chance to be Dodgers
• 56:58
  a couple years ago. Come down. Stop and throw.
• 57:06
  The curve swung on with a high -five ball in
• 57:08
  this deep set -of -peel. Russell goes back. Back.
• 57:11
  Sets. Makes the catch. Stanky is starting for
• 57:14
  second base. And here's a throw coming in to
• 57:16
  Robinson. And Stanky is safe. He makes it. Russell's
• 57:21
  throw into Robinson's second base. He was just
• 57:23
  on the short -stop side of second. Jack had to
• 57:26
  go off to the ball and then try and dive back
• 57:28
  in. And Stanky to Plasdon. and tagged up the
• 57:31
  first and went into second base. The ball was
• 57:32
  hit right back up against the center field wall,
• 57:34
  290 feet away. Wow, that's Stanky, I guess, bringing
• 57:39
  in his old teammate, Russell, doesn't have that
• 57:42
  much arm. Both of them, the Boston's, got together
• 57:44
  last year, the year before. Now Russell looking
• 57:48
  in the ground. Here's he went. Well, how did
• 57:51
  Stanky, who's not so fast, get the jump and beat
• 57:54
  me? He did it. Stanky is in scoring position,
• 58:01
  as they say in baseball or second base. And Henry
• 58:05
  Thompson, left hand hitting third baseman, who's
• 58:07
  single and got in the John's first run, the first
• 58:09
  inning is up. He's 4 -for -9 this year, hitting
• 58:12
  4 -44. It's 2 -1, favor New York. Stanky delivers.
• 58:17
  Curve is low. Ball on. One ball, no strikes.
• 58:23
  Stanky is second. Be careful not to get off too
• 58:27
  far. All too. Bankhead asked for another apple.
• 58:50
  Exchange it made. Post cereal people. And the
• 58:57
  newest to the post cereals is Sugarcrisp and
• 59:00
  it's going like wildfire. Very happy to bring
• 59:04
  you this first regular season Brooklyn baseball
• 59:07
  game. Not only in New York, but on... Coast to
• 59:11
  coast hook up all over the country. Glad to have
• 59:13
  you. Every Saturday the Dodger at home, be the
• 59:16
  same. Two nothing pitch. Curve ball too high.
• 59:20
  Ball ball free. Free and all. The man at second
• 59:47
  base. Three nothing pitch. Probably for a call
• 59:49
  strike. Confidence taking. Three and one. Henry
• 1:00:01
  is probably on his own up there. They hit if
• 1:00:03
  he pleases. It's not like this. He's been hitting
• 1:00:09
  very well in his young season. Right hand to
• 1:00:12
  bank. Get in position. Check. Second delivers.
• 1:00:14
  High outside for ball four. So Thompson walks.
• 1:00:19
  That's the third walk given by Daniel. Man at
• 1:00:24
  first and second, two out. Up at the third. Campanella
• 1:00:31
  goes after the mound, talk to the pitcher. Sam
• 1:00:36
  Maron, the bullpen catcher for the Dodgers, gets
• 1:00:38
  up there on the right field corner. Pends the
• 1:00:41
  baseball over to Ralph Franka. And the big right
• 1:00:44
  -hander who wears number 13, he's one of 13 children,
• 1:00:48
  gets up, start warming again for the second time.
• 1:00:52
  Branko was throwing steadily, wasting no opportunity
• 1:00:55
  to get hot in the first inning. The John's got
• 1:00:58
  the two runs and it looked as though the bankhead
• 1:01:00
  was in one hit of being out of there. Managed
• 1:01:03
  a shot and of course there's a lot of patience.
• 1:01:04
  The John's opened up in a hurry. Now let's see,
• 1:01:07
  Don Mueller, the left -hand -hitting rookie right
• 1:01:09
  fielder in a crouch. Takes a high outside curve
• 1:01:12
  for ball one. Thank you, second. Henry Thompson
• 1:01:17
  can run off first. They're ready to take out.
• 1:01:21
  Two men retired. 2 -1, New York. The pitch. Curve's
• 1:01:26
  going on. There's a high pop fly in the short
• 1:01:28
  left field. Shostak Reese is back. He's under.
• 1:01:30
  Shostak's under and has it. Out number three.
• 1:01:33
  And the Johnson goes by the boards. No runs,
• 1:01:36
  no hits, and two men left. A wise man seldom
• 1:01:41
  makes predictions about baseball or anything
• 1:01:44
  else, but when something's practically sure fire,
• 1:01:46
  you can't resist. And if ever I saw success in
• 1:01:50
  the making, it's our new post -serial, Sugarcrisp.
• 1:01:54
  In city after city, wherever it's been introduced,
• 1:01:57
  Sugarcrisp is gonna smash it overnight. So when
• 1:02:00
  we say it's gonna be one of the biggest selling
• 1:02:02
  cereals in America, we're not just moving our
• 1:02:06
  molars. Have you tried it yet? Sugarcrisp, you
• 1:02:09
  know, is made of delicious big wheat puffs toasted
• 1:02:12
  with sugar and honey. You just add milk or cream
• 1:02:16
  and you've got yourself a truly tantalizing breakfast
• 1:02:19
  dish. In fact, friends, sugarcrisp is so good
• 1:02:23
  you'll want to eat it right out of the bag. For
• 1:02:25
  breakfast, it's dandy. For snacks, it's so handy.
• 1:02:29
  Or eat it like candy. Get a good supply at your
• 1:02:32
  grocery, will you? Look for sugarcrisp. in the
• 1:02:36
  red, white, and blue bag with the three brown
• 1:02:39
  bears. It's a post -serial. Well, let's take
• 1:02:43
  20 seconds now and hear who everybody is. We'll
• 1:02:46
  pause for our station identification. He's two
• 1:03:20
  to one in favor of the Giants. Just now, DeRosha,
• 1:03:26
  rather loudly hollered for freedom by Robb and
• 1:03:28
  put up quite a squawk. A lot of talk, but much
• 1:03:31
  to do about nothing. And here is Bankhead, the
• 1:03:34
  Brooklyn pitcher, up for his first at bat, and
• 1:03:36
  he's a good hitting pitcher. Swings and now the
• 1:03:38
  line drive over short out of the left field,
• 1:03:40
  and it's in there against the wall for a base
• 1:03:42
  hit. Bankhead is running the second base. It's
• 1:03:44
  going to be at least a double. He took the toenails
• 1:03:55
  off that one. Bingo. Big line drive. Bankhead
• 1:04:00
  in his first major league at bat when he came
• 1:04:02
  up with the Dodgers a couple of years ago, hit
• 1:04:03
  a home run. So he lined the double off the left
• 1:04:09
  field wall and puts for himself the tying run
• 1:04:12
  at second base. That's the second Brooklyn hit.
• 1:04:15
  Time is called while a sweater is taken off the
• 1:04:18
  Bankhead. It's a chosen afternoon even though
• 1:04:19
  the sun is out and it's very pleasant sitting
• 1:04:23
  in the sun. the Brooklyn Bat Boy has just carried
• 1:04:37
  a jacket, windbreaker, out the bank head. The
• 1:04:40
  Dodgers are wearing their home whites and the
• 1:04:42
  Giants are wearing their road greys, trimmed
• 1:04:44
  in black and orange. Rustham is down, giving
• 1:04:50
  the sign. Kiwi Reese, who's tied out to left
• 1:04:53
  field, is first at bat. He's got 200 so far,
• 1:04:57
  3 for 15. These batting contenders we give you
• 1:05:00
  are right up to the time the batter is there
• 1:05:03
  at the box. Bankhead who can run off second,
• 1:05:11
  nobody out. Kramer pitches a curve low outside,
• 1:05:13
  ball walked. Speaking about our batting percentages,
• 1:05:17
  we're very happy on our broadcast to have with
• 1:05:19
  us a very competent young statistician, Bob Prasade,
• 1:05:23
  been with us for the last three years now. We're
• 1:05:26
  all bat on to give you the best broadcast we
• 1:05:29
  can. We got a fellow we want you to meet in the
• 1:05:32
  fourth inning, too, that you're going to like.
• 1:05:34
  A fellow named Connie Desmond. You and I have
• 1:05:37
  only been together eight years. We're almost
• 1:05:39
  on speaking terms. Reese backs out of there.
• 1:05:46
  Kramer, who has been just fussing around. Now
• 1:05:53
  is up on the mound, finally. He's in no hurry.
• 1:05:56
  Reese leading in. In field, up a step. The pitch
• 1:05:59
  is over. Fastball for a call strike above the
• 1:06:02
  knees. He was a fast bowler, just a little bit
• 1:06:04
  taken off. Kramer is a change of speed pitcher.
• 1:06:07
  It's sometimes hard to detect just whether he's
• 1:06:10
  putting on or taking off. The Dodgers have a
• 1:06:12
  tying run at second, nobody outlasted the third
• 1:06:14
  inning. The Giants, two and Brooklyn one. Kramer
• 1:06:21
  asks for the sign again, steps off the rubber,
• 1:06:23
  and he's on. Right -hander sets pitches, a curve.
• 1:06:32
  Now for Carl's second strike. And Reese walks
• 1:06:36
  out of there. One ball, two strikes. If you're
• 1:06:42
  going in for personal popularity, don't take
• 1:06:45
  up the profession of umpire. Anytime you call
• 1:06:48
  a player that's anyway is a tall on the borderline,
• 1:06:52
  as sure as you call it, you're going to have
• 1:06:54
  50 % of the colors in these monkey suits out
• 1:06:56
  here unhappy. And one ball, two strikes. Wind
• 1:07:01
  blowing out the right field. Reaches a left field
• 1:07:03
  hitter as a row. Peewee gets out of there, gets
• 1:07:11
  out of waiting on Kramer. Go to right -hander,
• 1:07:18
  comes down, stops, delivers, curve outside for
• 1:07:24
  ball two. Going to for tomorrow's ball game,
• 1:07:30
  Jack Collins. Business manager of the Dodgers
• 1:07:32
  is advised there'll be 14 ,000 seats of all kinds
• 1:07:34
  on sale when the park is open tomorrow. Don Newcomb
• 1:07:38
  is to be the starting pitcher for the Brooklyn
• 1:07:40
  Dodgers. Big, giant right -hander. Ball for DeRosha,
• 1:07:43
  it might be Mario Kennedy, or it might be Sheldon
• 1:07:47
  Jones. Leo said there's a possibility it might
• 1:07:49
  even be Hartong, one of the three, probably one
• 1:07:50
  of the first two. Two -two pitch to reach. Swung
• 1:07:54
  on, there's a ground ball down the short. Bankhead's
• 1:07:56
  going over third. Dark throws for third base,
• 1:07:58
  and Bankhead is out. Henry Thompson. And Reese
• 1:08:03
  holds it first. So that was a nice play. Shortstop
• 1:08:06
  dark over to Thompson. Bankhead figured he could
• 1:08:08
  get over there. He runs pretty fast. But as a
• 1:08:11
  general rule, when you're in a spot like that,
• 1:08:13
  you don't try and go over the ball's head ahead
• 1:08:15
  of you with less than two out. In other words,
• 1:08:21
  you stay up there. If there's any question about
• 1:08:22
  it, you stay at second base. Makes the play go
• 1:08:24
  to first. So what has happened is the Dodgers
• 1:08:28
  have accumulated one out. and their potential
• 1:08:30
  tying on his move from second all the way back
• 1:08:32
  to first base. Reese is on it first, scored as
• 1:08:40
  he appealed his choice. Bankhead is out at third.
• 1:08:42
  There was no force on that play at all. He wasn't
• 1:08:44
  forced to go over the short step to the third
• 1:08:45
  baseman. And Augie Donatelli, the umpire, was
• 1:08:49
  right on top of that play at third too. He had
• 1:08:51
  it. George Schubert, who hit... Quite a fly ball,
• 1:09:01
  but Thompson, who can cover a lot of ground,
• 1:09:03
  made quite a catch out of it in the first inning.
• 1:09:06
  Schuba has one hit for nine at bats. Of course,
• 1:09:08
  if he doesn't pick up, that means that Gene Harmanski
• 1:09:10
  will be out there in left field. Rob takes a
• 1:09:18
  new ball, running it up. field has also swung
• 1:09:43
  drastically around for the first place. This
• 1:09:45
  place, Schuber, is tricky right field hitter.
• 1:09:49
  Reese at first, one retired, Giants two, Rogers
• 1:09:54
  one, tying run at first. Right hander came with
• 1:10:00
  pitches and Schuber takes an outside one, about
• 1:10:02
  a three -quarter speed pitch for ball one. Fun
• 1:10:08
  and all. Curve, low end side, ball two. See that
• 1:10:32
  Eddie Brannock, the veteran and vulnerable, the
• 1:10:36
  very capable road secretary of the New York Giants
• 1:10:38
  has moved over and is sitting with Commissioner
• 1:10:40
  Chandler now. Harold Parrott, the young road
• 1:10:43
  secretary of the Dodgers, is sitting on the other
• 1:10:44
  side of the commission, so the commissioners
• 1:10:46
  sort of learn all the facts, I guess, about how
• 1:10:49
  the fellas go around this league. I think he
• 1:10:53
  knew him already. I see Schuber up there too
• 1:10:57
  and all. Takes a curve low inside for ball three,
• 1:11:01
  so Kramer says, give me another ball. Over in
• 1:11:05
  the giant dugout, that is the club box at the
• 1:11:11
  third base end of the giant dugout, Harris Stonem,
• 1:11:15
  the president of the Giants, and his assistant,
• 1:11:19
  Gary Schumacher, who's one of the great baseball
• 1:11:21
  writers, one of the New York Journal American,
• 1:11:23
  before he went there with Stonem. and Stonem's
• 1:11:26
  friend and fellow calls up number one Jard Roodle,
• 1:11:28
  it might be, Toot Shaw, they're sitting over
• 1:11:30
  there. There's a 3 -0 pitch at par 4, it's a
• 1:11:33
  3 -0 walk, and Kramer has the tying run behind
• 1:11:36
  him at second base again. Walks Schilber right
• 1:11:38
  here, that pushes Reese over to second. Second
• 1:11:41
  walk given up by Kramer, and the Giants are a
• 1:11:45
  little bit starved now. Catcher Weston goes out
• 1:11:48
  to the mound, third baseman Henry Thompson comes
• 1:11:50
  over to the mound. There's been no activity down
• 1:11:55
  in the giant boat then, where Herman Franks was
• 1:11:58
  holding for. And right now, there's a little
• 1:12:00
  merriment going on. A balloon flew out of the
• 1:12:02
  left field stands. And Ray Mueller, one of the
• 1:12:06
  giant catchers, went out there left field and
• 1:12:08
  had a little trouble trying to catch up with
• 1:12:09
  it. Every time he'd lean over for it, some little
• 1:12:11
  perverse breeze would blow it away. But he got
• 1:12:14
  it. I say everything happens in Brooklyn. You
• 1:12:17
  just wait around. It won't happen yet. But here's
• 1:12:20
  Jim Russell. Rather strong, I think, by two different
• 1:12:24
  plays out there in center field. One that Bollie
• 1:12:27
  didn't come up with in the first inning, and
• 1:12:29
  that mistake, he goes from first to second, and
• 1:12:30
  the fly ball is caught just now. Russell takes
• 1:12:32
  the fast ball over for a called strike. Russell
• 1:12:36
  walked in the first inning. That's the run toward
• 1:12:44
  right. Wind is blowing toward right, and as if
• 1:12:47
  Russell would pull one, the wind would be with
• 1:12:49
  him. Infield is Alfonso Ruiz at second, Krueger
• 1:12:58
  at first, the both get in. Flamie Deos, pass
• 1:13:02
  ball high outside, all one. He'll put the fellow
• 1:13:06
  away from him, he'll take away to a degree, he
• 1:13:08
  has a bullet to the core by making him to the
• 1:13:11
  other field. Josh leading two to one. Third and
• 1:13:23
  final game of this series, tomorrow afternoon,
• 1:13:25
  two o 'clock. good at its deal. Russell, get
• 1:13:31
  us out of there. We've rattled out a home between
• 1:13:34
  every one of Kramer's pictures. Now here's Thank
• 1:13:36
  You coming in from second base to the mile. He's
• 1:13:40
  got a visit with Kramer. The second baseman goes
• 1:13:56
  jogging back. His father -in -law is looking
• 1:14:08
  for a base coach to make him stop. One -on -one
• 1:14:13
  pitch. Carras hung on hip drive down the stanky.
• 1:14:15
  Who's up with it? Over the second of golf. One
• 1:14:17
  -out throw on the first base. Another play. is
• 1:14:28
  Becky the dog and over to Hoshman at first base.
• 1:14:32
  No runs, one hit, so Bankhead didn't help himself
• 1:14:35
  when he ran over to third base when Reese hit
• 1:14:37
  that half speed ground ball short. Well folks,
• 1:14:42
  post -serials, very happy to bring you the ball
• 1:14:45
  games. Very quickly let me run over the post
• 1:14:48
  scoreboard. At the end of an inning and a half
• 1:14:50
  of the Cardinal Cup game, it is three to one
• 1:14:52
  in favor of the Cardinals. At the end of five
• 1:14:54
  innings, the Phillies and the Braves, it is 1
• 1:14:56
  -0 in favor of the Phillies. At the end of five
• 1:15:00
  and a half innings of the Pittsburgh -Sit -Static
• 1:15:02
  game, it is 9 -1 in favor of the Porridge, with
• 1:15:05
  Beard, Westlake, Fernandez, and Kynah hitting
• 1:15:07
  home runs. That gives Westlake three for the
• 1:15:09
  year and Kynah two. In the American League, at
• 1:15:12
  the end of three innings, Washington is leading
• 1:15:14
  the Yankees, 4 -1. And they got Porterfield out
• 1:15:17
  of there, in favor of Sanford. At the end of
• 1:15:19
  four innings, the Red Sox lead the Athletics,
• 1:15:21
  4 -0 behind Starr. Chicago and Detroit have begun
• 1:15:25
  white for Chicago and put them on for Detroit
• 1:15:29
  and it is no score at the end of half an inning
• 1:15:31
  nothing yet on Cleveland at st. Louis because
• 1:15:33
  of the divergence in time which always a few
• 1:15:35
  moments ago that Connie Desson was coming on
• 1:15:38
  to do the middle of the ball game for you I don't
• 1:15:41
  know a finer broadcaster and more important a
• 1:15:45
  finer man I've often said and I'll repeat it
• 1:15:48
  again as long as we get close to coast listening
• 1:15:50
  today anytime Desson quits I'm going to go right
• 1:15:52
  out with it So, here is Mr. C .J., better known
• 1:15:56
  to the trade as Connie Desmond. And friends,
• 1:16:00
  here's Konya. Thank you, Red. Bobby Thompson
• 1:16:04
  leading off. Al Dark will follow, and then will
• 1:16:07
  come Jack Hoshman, the big first baseman. So,
• 1:16:11
  Dan Bankhead making his first major league start
• 1:16:13
  has got himself a honey going here. New York
• 1:16:16
  got him brought two to one. Bankhead swings into
• 1:16:19
  his windup, comes out with his first pitch, a
• 1:16:21
  curve ball in there for a strike. Thompson 4
• 1:16:25
  for 9. He was off to a very slow start in the
• 1:16:28
  first two games. The Giants played over at the
• 1:16:30
  holograms with Boston. But he's found the range,
• 1:16:34
  getting it 4 -44. He figures to be one of the
• 1:16:38
  big guns in the Giants' attack this year. Comes
• 1:16:43
  up almost on the tips of his toes. He levels
• 1:16:46
  that stick. Bankhead spins down in through there
• 1:16:49
  with a curve, like too close. Too on the way.
• 1:16:52
  It stands in favor of New York. Opfield has set
• 1:16:58
  up just about straight away here on Bobby, and
• 1:17:01
  they're deep. Alvin Dark waiting on deck. Bankhead
• 1:17:08
  serves the strike two pitch, curve outside. Of
• 1:17:12
  course he can afford to throw a couple of waste
• 1:17:14
  balls now as he jumped ahead with two quick strikes.
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  Post Serials, very happy to be sending it all
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  your way. Russell has gone over a few steps in
• 1:17:27
  the left -center field. Now the 1 -2 push to
• 1:17:31
  Thompson. He lays off with a high fastball. The
• 1:17:37
  Dodger Batboy is walking down towards the bullpen
• 1:17:40
  with some information from Bonnie Shotton. I'm
• 1:17:44
  sure there'll be any fireworks. Wants a couple
• 1:17:47
  of fellas to be up and ready. Now Bankett throws
• 1:17:50
  2 -2 again, swung on and chops out along the
• 1:17:52
  third baseline. Morgan up with it. Bobby showed
• 1:17:55
  a high defense on it. 0 -5 for three of you scoring.
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  One away in the top half of the fourth inning.
• 1:18:04
  Giants beating the Dodgers 2 -1. Daggy opened
• 1:18:08
  the ball game with a walk. Lachman single him
• 1:18:10
  on to second base. Thompson got him in with a
• 1:18:12
  crack in the left center field. Sending Lachman
• 1:18:15
  around to third base. And then when Mueller hit
• 1:18:17
  into a double play, Lachman scored from third
• 1:18:20
  base. That's how the Giants got their two. With
• 1:18:23
  one out in the second inning, Hodges unloaded
• 1:18:25
  a big four base blow deep back in the left center
• 1:18:28
  field stands. It was quite a wallop. First pitch
• 1:18:31
  to dark is high for ball one. Bankett, after
• 1:18:34
  that wobbly start, is settled down. Not given
• 1:18:38
  a hit since Thompson, who was the third man up
• 1:18:40
  in the first inning, hit a run in. Bankett shows
• 1:18:46
  again over on fastball, whizzed right through
• 1:18:48
  there for a cold strike. Deceptive almost swivel
• 1:18:57
  hip motion out there on the mound. And he's got
• 1:18:59
  a little fancy flutter kick along with it. Then
• 1:19:04
  Binscombe down the curve, outside. Dark ran up
• 1:19:07
  as if to bunt. Pitch was way wide. All two strike
• 1:19:11
  one. Dark hitting a .385, five for 13. He and
• 1:19:19
  Stanky came to the joint, you know, and one of
• 1:19:21
  the biggest, if not the biggest. Winter trade.
• 1:19:25
  Setting Sam Webb, Sid Gordon, Willard Marshall,
• 1:19:30
  and Buddy Kerr up to the hubs. Bankhead goes
• 1:19:33
  outside, 3 -1. The weight stands now. One down
• 1:19:39
  here, top half of the fourth inning. DeRoscher
• 1:19:42
  walking up and down, scratching away with his
• 1:19:44
  spikes there. At third base, Freddy Fitzsimmons
• 1:19:47
  coaching at first. Bankhead behind now. strike
• 1:19:53
  one pitch way outside ball four and dark is on
• 1:20:00
  walk number four given up by Dan Jack Harshman
• 1:20:07
  struck out his last time up big tall gangly first
• 1:20:11
  baseman left hand hitter have a little trouble
• 1:20:16
  getting that bat on the baseball hitting at 167
• 1:20:21
  Got a couple of base hits. One of them was a
• 1:20:24
  home run at the Polar Grounds against the Braves.
• 1:20:28
  Came with a couple on, too. The Giants, you know,
• 1:20:32
  have yet to win their first ball game of the
• 1:20:34
  1950 season. Dark at first base. Bankhead's pitch
• 1:20:39
  came down. Harshman steps away from the curveball
• 1:20:41
  and broke tight up against him. Ball one. This,
• 1:20:48
  you know, is the ballpark that haunched the Giants.
• 1:20:51
  some of the rough ones they've lost over here.
• 1:21:20
  We go back about five, right up at the base of
• 1:21:22
  the concrete right field fence to haul it in.
• 1:21:26
  Two out. Brings up the big burly catcher of New
• 1:21:30
  York, West Westroom. And if West knew some place
• 1:21:36
  where this old bay sits, he'd be a pretty good
• 1:21:38
  customer right now. He's 0 for 7. Down she comes.
• 1:22:26
  Jack Kramer is with the St. Louis Browns and
• 1:22:31
  the Boston Red Sox. He had a great year in 48,
• 1:22:35
  won 18 and lost 5. Then in 44 he helped pitch
• 1:22:39
  the St. Louis Browns to their first pennant in
• 1:22:41
  the World Series and he won a World Series game
• 1:22:44
  too. Dodger infield laying back of course. Two
• 1:22:52
  away, they're going for the big out here. New
• 1:22:54
  York out in front, 2 -1. Pumps come down to curveball,
• 1:23:00
  but it's low under the knees, ball one. First
• 1:23:03
  base open. Eddie Snikey's out on deck with Windbreaker
• 1:23:08
  on. It's rather chilly in the shadows here at
• 1:23:10
  Evans Field. Ralph Frank is up throwing down
• 1:23:13
  on the bullpen for Brooklyn. Backhead, Lines
• 1:23:16
  comes in again with a curveball over for Wright.
• 1:23:19
  And it's one and one. Bright, sunshiny day here
• 1:23:24
  in Brooklyn, USA. Down comes another one. The
• 1:25:48
  first pitch here to Stanky comes down with a
• 1:25:49
  twin on and foul back up over our heads behind
• 1:25:51
  home plate. Strike one. Well the Dodgers thought
• 1:25:55
  they were in a good spot with a pitcher coming
• 1:25:56
  up but things didn't work out that way. Mr. Kramer
• 1:26:00
  was the boy who was in the good spot. Big DC
• 1:26:06
  six flying over into LaGuardia. Bankhead pushes
• 1:26:12
  again a little Eddie. High inside. Ball one.
• 1:26:15
  Ball one. Strike one. Kramer made sure there
• 1:26:19
  wasn't anybody on after he swatted that one.
• 1:26:26
  Boy, that's the insult supreme. The pitcher hits
• 1:26:29
  a home run off you. Curve drops in there for
• 1:26:31
  call strike two. Ball one, strike two. Five to
• 1:26:38
  one. Play for the Giants. Roger's got a little
• 1:26:45
  smile on his face now. He hasn't had much to
• 1:26:48
  smile. this year. Bank gets next with a curve
• 1:26:51
  that is low, ball two. Three runs in here in
• 1:26:55
  the top half of the fourth inning. Five to one,
• 1:26:58
  New York. Post -serials, happy to be sending
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  it all your way. Say, by the way, have you tried
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  sugar crisp yet? Oh boy, if you haven't, right
• 1:27:07
  after the ball game, you better get to your grocery
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  store and stock up. The new cereal sensation
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  added to the great family of post -serials. Now
• 1:27:18
  the 2 -2 pitch, and it's over. Call strike three.
• 1:27:22
  Frankie is out. Three runs on two hits. Nobody
• 1:27:29
  left. Well, here it is, fans, hot off the press.
• 1:27:34
  The new 1950 Dodger Yearbook, complete with page
• 1:27:38
  after page up to the minute information of your
• 1:27:40
  favorite ball club. The Dodgers come alive for
• 1:27:43
  you in this book, in stories and in pictures.
• 1:27:46
  They're colorful write -ups of all the players,
• 1:27:49
  48 pages of vital statistics, and post -serials
• 1:27:52
  is arranged to put it in your hands right now
• 1:27:55
  when the season's just getting underway. Now
• 1:27:57
  here's all you do. Take the top of any regular
• 1:28:00
  -sized post -serial package or the front panel
• 1:28:03
  of a sugar -crisp bag and send it with a quarter
• 1:28:06
  to Dodger Yearbook, Box 7 -9, Brooklyn 1, New
• 1:28:11
  York. That's easy, isn't it? And this is the
• 1:28:14
  same book that sells for 50 cents at Ebbets Field.
• 1:28:17
  So get in at a grand bargain offer. Send 25 cents
• 1:28:21
  and a box stop from any regular -sized post -serial
• 1:28:24
  package or the front panel of a sugar -crisp
• 1:28:27
  bag to Dodger Yearbook, Box 7 -9, Brooklyn 1,
• 1:28:31
  New York. And make sure your name and address
• 1:28:34
  is included, won't you? And you'll get your copy
• 1:28:36
  of this great Dodger yearbook, Toronto. some
• 1:29:00
  work to do. Robinson will lead it off. Jack has
• 1:29:03
  been up once and grounded the second base. Willow
• 1:29:07
  will follow and then will come Big Hodges. It's
• 1:29:10
  been the one man assault for Brooklyn today.
• 1:29:14
  Big home run. Robinson lays off and picks it,
• 1:29:17
  wrinkles outside ball one. Bobby Thompson out
• 1:29:25
  in center field is shaded over towards right
• 1:29:27
  center on Robinson. Lockman is straight away
• 1:29:31
  out on the left and Don Mueller, the right fielder,
• 1:29:33
  is playing over in front of the scoreboard. Sort
• 1:29:35
  of fanned out. Kramer throws a gun a little outside,
• 1:29:40
  ball two. New York five, Brooklyn one. We have
• 1:29:49
  two very slow pitchers working. Ball game in
• 1:29:53
  the last half of the fourth inning and it's an
• 1:29:55
  hour and a half old. Kramer kicks them down,
• 1:30:00
  another one on the outside edge for a call strike.
• 1:30:03
  Two and one. Branca continues to throw it out
• 1:30:08
  on the bullpen. The Dodgers get down deep enough,
• 1:30:11
  they may hit for Bankhead, or maybe this will
• 1:30:14
  be all for Dan. We'll have to wait and see. That's
• 1:30:17
  shotton's job, not mine. Now the 2 -1 pitch,
• 1:30:22
  Twonahan and Vazfolie down toward short. Third
• 1:30:24
  baseman Thompson is over. Up with it and goes
• 1:30:26
  the first for the out. I don't think Dark could
• 1:30:29
  have made the play. Henry Thompson hustled over,
• 1:30:31
  cutting in front of the short fielder, scooped
• 1:30:33
  it up, and threw him out. Five to three of your
• 1:30:39
  scoring. One away now as Carl Perillo steps in.
• 1:30:44
  Trushed up Dark, threw him out. Carl let off
• 1:30:47
  the second inning. First pitch, he let up one,
• 1:31:00
  went on and hit down into the hole between second
• 1:31:02
  and third. There's a long show by Dark. In time,
• 1:31:05
  a bang -banger over first base. So Barillo is
• 1:31:09
  out on a fine play by Blocky Dark. Now had to
• 1:31:13
  go into the hole and that's the toughest play
• 1:31:15
  for a short stop to make. Over to the right,
• 1:31:17
  scoop up the ball deep, then turn and make the
• 1:31:20
  throw accurately and in time. And Barillo, one
• 1:31:23
  of the fastest men on the squad. that he made
• 1:31:29
  it. Two down. Gil Hodges splashed a big home
• 1:31:39
  run with one away in the second inning. The second
• 1:31:41
  of the year with a Dodgers loan tally is up.
• 1:31:45
  Gil batting at 727. Pitch outside. Down here,
• 1:32:01
  last of the fourth inning, five to one New York.
• 1:32:10
  Kramer sends another one through there for a
• 1:32:12
  call strike. Ball one, strike one. The cricket
• 1:32:16
  line of the Giants are deep and around into left.
• 1:32:23
  Inter -depend, playing back deep. fellow up there
• 1:32:28
  Gil Hodges can really overpower that baseball.
• 1:32:34
  Now the 1 -1 pitch over and fastball double the
• 1:32:37
  time if the strike too cold. The way Kramer's
• 1:32:47
  pitching today it's hard to believe that the
• 1:32:49
  Red Sox who need pitching very badly would cut
• 1:32:52
  him loose. He's got it today so far. You've got
• 1:33:01
  to get them in the clubhouse. Oh, they're yours.
• 1:33:04
  Oh, that really had him himself. Go down he goes,
• 1:33:10
  a -wavin'. First strikeout on the way for Big
• 1:33:15
  Kramer. Down the Dodgers go out, trailing 5 -1.
• 1:33:21
  Managers shot him. He plays things pretty close
• 1:33:24
  to the vest. Excited that Bankhead had had enough.
• 1:33:39
  But he was in there, he walked four, struck out
• 1:33:41
  three, gave up five runs and but four hits. Oh,
• 1:33:51
  Ralph Rankin. Firing him down out there. Big
• 1:33:58
  Ralph was in 34 ballgames last year, won 13 and
• 1:34:02
  lost five. Lives in here by Mount Vernon, New
• 1:34:06
  York. He's a big guy. 220 pounds. And down in
• 1:34:12
  the Dodger bullpen, Jack Vanta, a right -hander,
• 1:34:15
  is up and throwing. So let's see what the Giants
• 1:34:22
  will do here in the top half of the fifth inning.
• 1:34:24
  Lachman, Thompson, and Mueller will be coming
• 1:34:25
  up in that order. Five to one, New York. Most
• 1:34:31
  serious, very happy to be your host this afternoon.
• 1:34:41
  down near third and takes it to the up. Loughlin
• 1:34:44
  is retired by Blanca, comes out here in the fifth
• 1:34:47
  inning on one pitch. Bobby Morgan, the third
• 1:34:50
  baseman, could have made the play too, but Reese,
• 1:34:52
  the shortstop, was angling over and had a better
• 1:34:55
  shot at it. So the Dodger captain went in for
• 1:34:58
  the catch. Went away, top of the fifth. And Henry
• 1:35:02
  Thompson, with a perfect afternoon, a single
• 1:35:03
  and a walk is up, getting it 4 -44. Four for
• 1:35:07
  nine, left hand hitter, steps away from the fastball
• 1:35:09
  inside. Wiker was troubled with a bad arm. Down
• 1:35:13
  at Vero Beach, the Dodgers spring training quarters.
• 1:35:17
  Brownie had an abscess tooth taken care of. And
• 1:35:23
  then the arm trouble disappeared, so Ralph was
• 1:35:25
  ready to go. That shot just dropped him in here
• 1:35:27
  on a relief roll. Ralph goes again and gets it
• 1:35:32
  in for a call strike. Now the 1 -1 pitch, a lineup
• 1:35:36
  curve, too high. Ball two. him down another pitch
• 1:35:54
  and this one is Nixon. I'll make that officially
• 1:36:03
  ball four. That was awful close. Official score
• 1:36:14
  says no ball four, no hit batsman. So if you're
• 1:36:17
  scoring, put a W down next to Thompson's name.
• 1:36:21
  Up there now is Don Mueller, the right fielder.
• 1:36:24
  Dodgers infield in double -play depth. Thompson
• 1:36:27
  goes down to second. The pitch swung on and rolled
• 1:36:30
  out to Robinson. Jack's throw is to first base
• 1:36:32
  and Henry now is down at the pick -up post. That
• 1:36:36
  was a hit -and -run play and all Jack could do
• 1:36:38
  was make his play to first base because Thompson
• 1:36:40
  was off as Franka came down with his pitch. Mueller
• 1:36:44
  also hit it rather slowly out toward second base.
• 1:36:47
  There was no chance for a double play. Bobby
• 1:36:51
  Thompson. We took call strike three in the first
• 1:36:55
  inning and brought it out to Morgan his last
• 1:36:57
  time up third. Two out. Top half of inning five.
• 1:37:05
  Score five to one. Favor of New York. First push
• 1:37:09
  to Thompson. Swung out a dribble slowly down
• 1:37:11
  along the third baseline. Morgan's got to come
• 1:37:12
  fast. Picks it up close to first not in time.
• 1:37:16
  A swiver down along the third baseline. Branker
• 1:37:19
  came off the mound. He could not feel the ball
• 1:37:21
  as it trickled by him. Morgan had to come all
• 1:37:23
  the way. Made a bare hand pick up and another
• 1:37:25
  hand flew over to Hodges, but not in time. And
• 1:37:28
  Thompson who can fly. They nicknamed him the
• 1:37:31
  flying scotch, you know. Out -legged for a base
• 1:37:34
  knock. On to third base comes Henry Thompson.
• 1:37:39
  So Brank is in trouble right now with a good
• 1:37:40
  hitter coming up. Blackie Dark. Now struck out
• 1:37:44
  his first time and walked the last. Mata continues
• 1:37:49
  to throw down there to Sam Naran's big lip. The
• 1:37:52
  Dodger bullpen along the right field line. Dark
• 1:37:54
  right -hand hitter, runners on it, first and
• 1:37:56
  third, two out here. Dark lays off a high fastball,
• 1:38:00
  ball one. Dark getting a .385. Outfield shifted
• 1:38:10
  into left. Although Dark sprays a lot of base
• 1:38:13
  hits in the right field. Franka holds his stretch,
• 1:38:18
  checks both runners. Pitches, one on and hit
• 1:38:20
  out the short, races up with it, throws to Robinson,
• 1:38:22
  they get a force play on Thompson. No runs, one
• 1:38:29
  hit, two men left on. Well friends, you may ask,
• 1:38:37
  is there any difference in corn flakes? Oh man,
• 1:38:41
  there's a world of difference. Yes, fans, you
• 1:38:44
  taste post -toasties. and see if it isn't better
• 1:38:47
  than any other corn flakes you've ever eaten.
• 1:38:50
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• 1:38:53
  You'll say post -toasties are the freshest, the
• 1:38:56
  crispiest, most delicious corn flakes you ever
• 1:38:59
  put on the breakfast table. So the next time
• 1:39:01
  you're at your grocers, don't ask for corn flakes.
• 1:39:05
  Ask for post -toasties, the better corn flakes.
• 1:39:09
  They're eating proof that it's post for flavor,
• 1:39:12
  post for freshness, and post for the most of
• 1:39:15
  everything good in cereals. Do you remember that,
• 1:39:18
  won't you, mother? Post toasties. You can probably
• 1:39:30
  hear a little stirring around Ebbets Field. They
• 1:39:33
  just posted five big runs for the New York Yankees
• 1:39:36
  in the last half of the fifth inning. And they
• 1:39:39
  now move out in front of Washington by the score
• 1:39:42
  of six to five. The Red Sox in Philadelphia at
• 1:39:55
  the end of five innings are tied up 4 -4. Stubbs
• 1:39:58
  against Kellner in that ball game. Chicago and
• 1:40:00
  Detroit have just started. Bill White for the
• 1:40:02
  White Sox. Art Hudeman for Detroit. Chicago failed
• 1:40:05
  to score on their half of the first inning. Bobby
• 1:40:07
  Feller going for Cleveland against St. Louis'
• 1:40:09
  W. Obermeyer. Pick up the nice to make as we
• 1:40:12
  go along here. Bobby Morgan leading off for the
• 1:40:17
  Dodgers, 5 -1 in favor of New York. Kramer comes
• 1:40:20
  down to his first pitch, got a curveball that
• 1:40:23
  is swung on and foul tipped back. Jack Maddock
• 1:40:28
  continues to throw down on the bullpen. The National
• 1:40:32
  League for the Cardinals, it is Jerry Staley
• 1:40:34
  who won his first start. Cardinals have three,
• 1:40:37
  Chicago one. Boys all started, Vandermeer in
• 1:40:39
  the first and Paul Minner the former Dodger in
• 1:40:41
  the third inning. Philadelphia won, Boston nothing
• 1:40:46
  at the end of five innings. Kurt Simmons for
• 1:40:50
  the Cullys, Warren Spahn for the Braves. Kramer
• 1:40:55
  takes too much time and Morgan backs out. Pittsburgh
• 1:40:59
  having a picnic at Forbes Field, leading Cincinnati
• 1:41:03
  9 -1. The knock at home runs over that short
• 1:41:06
  left field fence too, out in Mr. Greenberg's
• 1:41:09
  gardens, as they call it. Morgan takes high.
• 1:41:15
  Beard hit a home run in the second inning with
• 1:41:16
  one on, his first of the year. Wally Ruslick
• 1:41:18
  hit his third in the third inning with nobody
• 1:41:20
  on. Danny Fernandez hit one in the fourth with
• 1:41:23
  nobody on, his first. Ralph Conner hit one in
• 1:41:26
  the fourth with a man on, his second. Kramer,
• 1:41:29
  triple -pumping out there, kicks up, comes down,
• 1:41:31
  picks one on, and hits two out in the centerfield
• 1:41:33
  for a base hit. to Roy and the ball gets away
• 1:42:22
  from Weston. Morgan's passed the second and holds
• 1:42:24
  up. Ball skidded in the dirt and Weston was able
• 1:42:29
  to partially block it to keep it from going behind.
• 1:42:35
  Cal Abrams is out on deck. They hit for a blanket.
• 1:42:39
  So it looks like Manta will be coming on to be
• 1:42:40
  the third Dodger pitcher in this ball game. Big
• 1:42:44
  Jack now comes to his top position. Morgan down
• 1:42:46
  off first base to pitch to Campanella. Swung
• 1:42:48
  on, hit down to third. in the last field. Pitch
• 1:44:22
  into Abraham to low curve with all one. Cavadilla
• 1:44:26
  on a first base. Morgan is at second thanks to
• 1:44:31
  the error by the third baseman, Henry Thompson.
• 1:44:34
  That ball was hit sharply down the third and
• 1:44:37
  swiftly enough to start a very easy double play.
• 1:44:41
  The Dodgers will take runners anywhere they can
• 1:44:43
  get them against this Kramer. Outlander's pitch,
• 1:44:56
  fastball outside. grocery order you have you
• 1:45:29
  better do it all right now now the two nothing
• 1:45:33
  pitch curveball on the inside corner first strike
• 1:45:37
  ball two strike one that continues to throw he
• 1:45:48
  wants to be ready when he comes in sheldon jones
• 1:45:53
  the right hander warming up strike two Billy
• 1:46:15
  Cox is here with a ball club but not a uniform
• 1:46:18
  that bad back it is for a pinch hitter to go
• 1:46:48
  up there and take call strike three. Well, DeRosha's
• 1:46:53
  out of the mound once again. Peewee Reese coming
• 1:46:57
  up, bringing a couple of sticks. Well, the last
• 1:47:02
  board of directors meeting for New York worked
• 1:47:04
  out all right for them. They went out there,
• 1:47:06
  talked it over, and struck out Abram. DeRosha
• 1:47:09
  decided, well, it's a good one, so I might as
• 1:47:11
  well try it again. Kramer, of course, you know,
• 1:47:14
  just coming into this league. is not too well
• 1:47:18
  acquainted with these hitters. DeRosier has been
• 1:47:21
  around a long time. This tells him the series
• 1:47:24
  of pitches he wants. Bob Morgan down at second
• 1:47:29
  base. Roy Campanella first with one out here.
• 1:47:32
  Last of the fifth inning. And the Giants leading
• 1:47:34
  the Dodgers five to one. Kramer now goes to work
• 1:47:39
  on Reese. Right hand hitter. First pitch off
• 1:47:42
  the corner by one. Peewee's having a tough time
• 1:47:45
  starting. He has three base hits on a 16th match
• 1:47:48
  for a very low percentage of 1 -8 -8. And when
• 1:47:55
  you get about $35 ,000 a year, you just don't
• 1:47:58
  hit 1 -8 -8. Kramer taking his time. He's in
• 1:48:08
  his spot here. He wants to wiggle out of it.
• 1:48:11
  The bat is just about ready. Throw on a couple
• 1:48:14
  of leisurely pitches. Both runners lead away
• 1:48:17
  now. The pitch, Reese takes a curve outside.
• 1:48:21
  That was awful close. Reese didn't know whether
• 1:48:23
  to go at it or not. Checked his swing and it
• 1:48:26
  flipped outside. Slider. Ball two. winning his
• 1:48:54
  first game of the year. He lost one, the opening
• 1:48:56
  day of Simon against St. Louis. Pittsburgh nine
• 1:49:00
  runs, 12 hits in an hour. Cincinnati two runs,
• 1:49:02
  eight hits in no hour. Great home runs all over
• 1:49:06
  the place. Kramer pulls him down the pitch, on
• 1:49:14
  the corner for a strike. Three -one now on race,
• 1:49:18
  and Pugh takes a long look down to Milton Stock
• 1:49:20
  coaching at third base. They see what they want
• 1:49:23
  them to do about this one. Big pitch for Kramer.
• 1:49:34
  Here it is. Oh, a side ball. Kramer walks Reese.
• 1:49:44
  That pushes Morgan around to the far turn. Campanella
• 1:49:47
  goes to the middle stop. And Reese is at first
• 1:49:50
  base with one down here. for the fifth inning.
• 1:49:57
  George Schuba, who's been trying to battle his
• 1:50:00
  way on this ball club, could endear himself to
• 1:50:02
  the hearts of many a Flatbush follower by nudging
• 1:50:06
  one right now. They're stocked up for him. Kramer
• 1:50:16
  doesn't have a place to put anybody else. Now
• 1:50:20
  his first pitch to Schuba, a curveball drops
• 1:50:22
  on the inside corner for a strike. Boy, look
• 1:50:25
  at those umpires in the stands. The order of
• 1:50:31
  the three men are going to get paid for doing
• 1:50:33
  their job today of crawling balls and strikes
• 1:50:35
  and outs. We're safe. Messers Rob, Barlich, and
• 1:50:41
  Donna Teller. Strike one on Schuba, left hand
• 1:50:46
  hitter. There's a pitch. 11. One look ahead,
• 1:51:01
  Jimmy Russell, the switch hitter, is out on deck.
• 1:51:04
  Here's the pitch. Kershaw, a little weak foul
• 1:51:07
  ball, hit off first base. Harshman under it and
• 1:51:09
  takes it for the out. No two outs. Schuba, uppercutting
• 1:51:15
  the curve ball, fouled it up and into the myth
• 1:51:18
  of Jack Harshman, the giant first baseman. Jimmy
• 1:51:24
  Russell, what a big day yesterday. having a little
• 1:51:26
  trouble today, get into a double play, and walked.
• 1:51:31
  Also had a little action in the outfield, a fly
• 1:51:35
  ball that he missed. Judge dropped in front of
• 1:51:37
  him for a base hit on Blockman's bat in the first
• 1:51:39
  inning. And then Stanky, who is not a speed merchant,
• 1:51:42
  picked up and moved from first to second on a
• 1:51:44
  fly ball that was hit to not too deep center
• 1:51:46
  field. Well, all of that will be forgotten. Mr.
• 1:51:52
  Russell can unload here. Two up. New York five,
• 1:51:59
  Brooklyn one. Mattanow is finished up on the
• 1:52:02
  bullpen and is walking in towards the Dodger
• 1:52:04
  bench. Kramer into his lineup, kicks him down
• 1:52:07
  the pitch outside, ball one. Also, two for five
• 1:52:16
  in this young season. Figures out that the count
• 1:52:19
  is at 400. Switch at her batting left at it against
• 1:52:27
  Kramer's right hand stuff. Outfield swung the
• 1:52:31
  way around in the right. Infield laying back.
• 1:52:35
  Right side very deep. Harshman stacking. Ball
• 1:52:38
  on. Kramer ready to gale off another one. Here's
• 1:52:42
  the pitch. High outside fastball. Ball 2. Lease
• 1:52:48
  at first base. Campanella at second and Bobby
• 1:52:50
  Morgan at third with 2 down. That's the picture
• 1:52:52
  here. Saturday afternoon, crowd looking off.
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  anywhere they can get them. This you know, the
• 1:53:35
  most heated rivalry in baseball. Josh and Brooklyn.
• 1:53:44
  Now the three nothing pitch and it is on the
• 1:53:46
  call for a strike. Jamer hanging on the edge
• 1:53:51
  out there. He's got a four on lead. Five to one
• 1:53:55
  New York. after picking off his side from Milton
• 1:54:04
  Stock, coaching down third base, steps back in
• 1:54:06
  again. Kramer now goes into his pumping motion.
• 1:54:14
  Count three one, here's the pitch. Go after three
• 1:54:22
  bad pitches, Kramer. He's got two good ones in
• 1:54:25
  there, one a fastball and the other a curve.
• 1:54:27
  They run the count all the way down and now the
• 1:54:29
  marrying arrival starts. Full count. Two outs,
• 1:54:32
  bases loaded, they'll be off and running at every
• 1:54:35
  field. Morgan at third, Cavanaugh at second,
• 1:54:46
  Reese at first, two outs. Everybody goes, Kramer
• 1:54:49
  into his full windup, here comes the pitch, and
• 1:54:51
  it is low for ball four. Jimmy Russell just walking
• 1:55:33
  with a Saks Soap. Austin Morgan. And you must
• 1:55:38
  credit Russell with a run about it in, by the
• 1:55:40
  way. They're keeping score. That brings up Jackie
• 1:55:43
  Robinson, the National League defending batting
• 1:55:45
  team. What a big blow to get the Dodger right
• 1:55:50
  back in this one. 5 -2 New York. Kramer, rattling
• 1:55:56
  around in trouble out there. Big Jack kicks him
• 1:55:59
  down a pitch way outside. Coming up for New York,
• 1:56:19
  Mata, who will go on to pitch the top of the
• 1:56:22
  sixth inning, is already ready. Sitting on the
• 1:56:25
  Dodger bench right now. Robinson up. All for
• 1:56:32
  two today. Go outside curveball, ball two. Jack
• 1:56:40
  Brown at the second base, and the third in his
• 1:56:43
  two previous trips. hitting at 462, 6 for 13.
• 1:56:53
  Now this is the spot to bump out his 7th hit.
• 1:58:22
  Here's the pitch. One -on -a -miss. Carl Carter
• 1:58:25
  check his swing to put her on. Strike one. Jimmy
• 1:58:28
  Russell with a tying Kelly is at third base.
• 1:58:31
  We have another final score. Bob Elliott came
• 1:58:34
  up with a home run in the last half of the eighth
• 1:58:36
  inning to beat the Phillies three to two. And
• 1:58:40
  Warren Spahn gets his second win of the year.
• 1:58:43
  So Elliott is a big man in the hub tonight. He's
• 1:58:48
  been busting the Dodgers now. two to the Dodgers
• 2:00:11
  and two to the Braves in their opening series
• 2:00:13
  of Polo Grounds. And with Kramer pitching along
• 2:00:16
  behind a 5 -1 lead, things were rather pleasant
• 2:00:19
  in the giant dugout. And then... Jones is tuning
• 2:00:30
  up out there in the hill. Tell you a little bit
• 2:00:33
  about him. Jones in 42 ballgames last year with
• 2:00:38
  New York won 15 and lost 12. He had an overall
• 2:00:41
  average of 3 .35. He was born out in Tecumseh,
• 2:00:45
  Nebraska. Now makes his home at York, Nebraska.
• 2:00:48
  Six footer, about 180 pounds. Right hander. This
• 2:00:54
  is his first relief job of the year. Started
• 2:00:57
  a ball game and lost it. So he has a record of
• 2:01:00
  no wins in one setback. Well, he's all tuned
• 2:01:04
  up. Says he's ready. We'll see. his first time
• 2:01:12
  up with one out in the second inning and struck
• 2:01:13
  out the last time as the man he'll be serving
• 2:01:15
  him up to. Jack Maddow has picked half a ball
• 2:01:18
  game already and the goal pen is going at it
• 2:01:20
  again. All these days in football. Coach Cereals
• 2:01:32
  happy to be sending a disgorgy. 5 -5 tie on the
• 2:01:35
  last half of the fifth inning. Ball game two
• 2:01:39
  hours and fifteen minutes old. field deep and
• 2:01:44
  around to the left as Big Hodges comes up. Robinson
• 2:01:46
  down off third base. Rullo off at first. Down
• 2:01:50
  the pitch. Swung on and fouled back. The Dodgers
• 2:01:54
  have their two running champions out there. It's
• 2:01:57
  a good spot for a double stealer. They want to
• 2:01:59
  work it that way. But they got a good hitter
• 2:02:01
  up there too. If you were a manager, what would
• 2:02:05
  you do? Two out. If I was a manager, I'd look
• 2:02:11
  for my paycheck every month. You know there are
• 2:02:30
  six new managers in the National League this
• 2:02:32
  year. I'll just big strong Hoosier Robinson jumping
• 2:02:43
  off third the pitch way outside gets away from
• 2:02:45
  Washington no advance over ball to strike one.
• 2:02:50
  Last half of the fifth inning. The Dodgers with
• 2:02:52
  four runs have tied the ball game. 5 -5. Robinson
• 2:03:01
  still taking that long, jumping lead down off
• 2:03:04
  third base. Henry Thompson, the third baseman
• 2:03:06
  of New York, is playing back rather deep. Jones
• 2:03:10
  standing on the mound, now goes to his stretch
• 2:03:12
  position. Robinson jogging around the short of
• 2:03:16
  first base, and Perillo is the one that has to
• 2:03:18
  get back. Carl was rather half -fascinated by
• 2:03:24
  Robinson's jumping off third base and Jones wheeled
• 2:03:27
  her out and dealt one over to Harshman and Carl
• 2:03:30
  had to go back hands first. Now Carl leads the
• 2:03:35
  way again Robinson out off third base. There's
• 2:03:38
  a 2 -1 pitch. One -on -a -miss. Oh Hodges took
• 2:03:44
  a cut at that one like he was going to knock
• 2:03:45
  it over to Eastern Parkway. Ball two, strike
• 2:03:53
  two. For those of you around the country, Eastern
• 2:03:59
  Parkway is about four blocks from here. Jones
• 2:04:09
  ready. Here's the two -twoer. Inside, ball three.
• 2:04:16
  So, with two out, Marullo will be going. Robinson,
• 2:04:19
  of course, at third base, will have to play it
• 2:04:20
  safe. Henry Thompson, the third baseman, out
• 2:04:23
  comes over to talk to Sheldon Jones. The official
• 2:04:30
  pay the tennis today, 19 ,067. Harold Parrott,
• 2:04:35
  the traveling secretary of the Dodgers, gracefully
• 2:04:38
  bringing it up here. Now Robinson with a big
• 2:04:44
  long, catalyzing lead down off third base. Oh,
• 2:04:48
  here's the pitch, Grillo goes. Four big tallies
• 2:04:59
  on one, two, three base hits. One giant error,
• 2:05:04
  a costly one that opened the door on the Dodgers,
• 2:05:06
  sneaked in for four, and there were two walks.
• 2:05:11
  They were costly, too. One of them forced in
• 2:05:13
  a run. Kept the inning alive, shut it up for
• 2:05:16
  Robinson's single to get two in, and Perillo's
• 2:05:19
  single in the right field to score Russell with
• 2:05:21
  a tying run. And that is that. Top half of the
• 2:05:29
  sixth inning. Jack Fanta now pitching for the
• 2:05:34
  Dodgers. Well, Fanta just need to throw many
• 2:05:37
  warm -up pitches. All he's hoping is that he
• 2:05:41
  didn't lose his ball game right down in the bullpen.
• 2:05:43
  It's been done before. It's like the old gag
• 2:05:47
  they used to tell on Bill Terry in the last game
• 2:05:48
  of the World Series when he had Carl Hubble down
• 2:05:50
  in the bullpen and never used it. They lost the
• 2:05:53
  ball game. The question was, what were they saving
• 2:05:56
  Hubble for? Certainly not the senior prom. The
• 2:06:04
  first pitch now to the big first baseman, Jack
• 2:06:06
  Marshman, is outside ball one. Banna, you know,
• 2:06:09
  who was a hero on the last day at Philadelphia
• 2:06:11
  last year, coming out on relief after Big Newcomb
• 2:06:14
  had blown a five -round lead. Banna went on to
• 2:06:17
  pitch the Dodgers to a 9 -7 win and the pennant.
• 2:06:21
  Gets his turnball over the outside corner for
• 2:06:23
  a strike. Banna had a little, uh, teeth trouble
• 2:06:26
  too this year. have a couple of impacted wisdom
• 2:06:29
  teeth pulled. I think he's got one more to come.
• 2:06:33
  Turn him high outside ball two. And he had the
• 2:06:36
  aches and the pains. Didn't do much work down
• 2:06:38
  at Dodger Town at Barrow Beach. So he had to
• 2:06:43
  work himself in the shade, but he's all right
• 2:06:44
  now. Kicks him down to pitch full on and foul
• 2:06:49
  away over to the Dodger Batracks. Coach Serial,
• 2:06:55
  your host today, friends. Harshman, Weston, and
• 2:07:00
  Jones will be coming up with that order. Nobody's
• 2:07:02
  throwing down at the New York bullpen. That'll
• 2:07:04
  be the order. Outfield shifted around to the
• 2:07:07
  right. Turbol, it takes Harshman's bat and then
• 2:07:11
  gets behind. Two and two. All two strike two.
• 2:07:39
  Harsman and Lafayette at first base doing spring
• 2:07:42
  training at Phoenix. And on their swing through
• 2:07:44
  the country and back to the polo gown. And with
• 2:07:49
  Harsman a -wavin' like that, Mr. Lafayette may
• 2:07:51
  get a chance. Western the catcher up. Looks at
• 2:07:55
  the curve ball over for a strike. Mather has
• 2:07:59
  a very deceptive sidearm wheeling delivery. He
• 2:08:03
  really cross bars it. Curve ball, sharply breaking
• 2:08:07
  outside, ball one. Clarence Plotdyland, who won
• 2:08:11
  his first start in the Major Leagues down at
• 2:08:15
  Philadelphia the other day, is going down on
• 2:08:18
  the bullpen now. Kerps went out and fouled back
• 2:08:20
  up over our heads. Metta was in 48 ballgames
• 2:08:24
  with Brooklyn by a Bureau and Tennant lost 6.
• 2:08:28
  From Hutchinson, Kansas, 6 '2 .5, 171 pounds.
• 2:08:33
  That's his fastball. Maybe the long warm -up
• 2:08:42
  is the thing you need. Stuck out Harshman and
• 2:08:46
  Ruscombe, and now goes to work on the pitcher.
• 2:08:49
  Two out, top half of the sixth inning. Got a
• 2:08:52
  5 -5 humdinger. Squirming here at Ebbets Field.
• 2:08:55
  Osterio sending it all your way. That is curveball
• 2:08:59
  to the pitcher. Sheldon Jones is blown away from
• 2:09:01
  ball one. Campanella back on the plate, handling
• 2:09:08
  Big Jack. Fastball gets in there for a call strike.
• 2:09:13
  One and one. That's a tough right field right
• 2:09:17
  now. Sun dropping down back to the stands. Prull
• 2:09:21
  has got his sunglasses on, you can bet. Another
• 2:09:24
  curve. Ball one, strike two. Chicago Cubs came
• 2:09:31
  up with five runs in the last half of the fifth
• 2:09:33
  inning against the Cardinals. And lead six to
• 2:09:37
  four. That's all right. When a pitcher pitches
• 2:09:46
  through a pitcher, it's curve, curve, curve.
• 2:09:51
  And that's all the Jack has been showing up here
• 2:09:53
  to Sheldon Jones. Now the 2 -2 pitch. Here it
• 2:09:58
  is. Swung on it. Right up and over our heads.
• 2:10:02
  We were ready to move. Johnny Dirt doesn't know
• 2:10:06
  which way to go here. It's straight up. He's
• 2:10:16
  wide open. Now the two tour against. Swung out
• 2:10:20
  and got it down a short. Reached up with it.
• 2:10:23
  The throw to first. Inside. And that is that.
• 2:10:26
  Bandits are down to put the Giants down. One,
• 2:10:29
  two, three. In the top half of the sixth inning.
• 2:10:33
  New York. Five and the Dodgers five. Friends,
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• 2:10:40
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  in cereals. So let's see what goes here now in
• 2:11:41
  the last half of the sixth. The Dodgers batted
• 2:11:42
  around the last time with Morgan starting it
• 2:11:44
  off. Let's see what they can do here. Right hand
• 2:11:47
  hitter. First push to Bobby is up high by Jones
• 2:11:50
  for ball one. Jones into his windup. Kicks come
• 2:12:01
  down another one and down goes Morgan. All up
• 2:12:04
  around the peak of his cap. Bobby's really been
• 2:12:07
  the Jack in the box for the Dodgers. He was up
• 2:12:10
  and down at Philadelphia. And boy was he moaning
• 2:12:14
  coming back on the bus to the hotel the other
• 2:12:16
  night when Big Hodges got up and slammed a home
• 2:12:20
  run in the left field seat. Morgan came up, the
• 2:12:22
  next man, and they low -bridged him. He said,
• 2:12:27
  what kind of a game is this? Hodges hits the
• 2:12:30
  home run and I take the ref for it. Pitch is
• 2:12:36
  way outside for ball three. Jones come down again
• 2:12:39
  and Morgan has to almost squat again. Ball four.
• 2:12:42
  High upstairs. So Jones walks the leadoff man
• 2:12:51
  for the Dodgers in the last half of the sixth
• 2:12:52
  inning. Bobby Morgan. Roy Cabanela comes up.
• 2:12:57
  Cabanela steps in now. Jones ready to work. Morgan
• 2:13:00
  taking his lead down off first base. Now the
• 2:13:05
  pitch to Cabanela. Swung on and hit the foul.
• 2:13:16
  hit the stick and then skidded back. Like a shot
• 2:13:19
  into the stands. Strike one. New York five. Brooklyn
• 2:13:26
  five. That's the way this one stands here in
• 2:13:29
  the last half of the sixth. Nobody out of Bobby
• 2:13:32
  Morgan on at first base. Here's a pitch Cabanela
• 2:13:34
  swings. What a reference. Strike two. Mario Kennedy.
• 2:13:40
  Who was originally scheduled to start today's
• 2:13:42
  ballgame is now up and throwing down on the bullpen.
• 2:13:51
  For some of their top men. A 5 -5 deadlock here.
• 2:13:55
  Throw to first base. Morgan back with a couple
• 2:13:56
  of quick steps. Jones holding a stretch. Pitches
• 2:14:05
  in to Roy. And it's high inside of Roy as they
• 2:14:07
  get down and away from him. Ball on strike two.
• 2:14:13
  Cabinella, right hand swinger. Got that big power.
• 2:14:17
  Three for nine. He's at one home run. Out of
• 2:14:22
  the pitch to Roy. He checks his swing on a curveball
• 2:14:25
  that dropped low outside. Ball two strike two.
• 2:14:31
  All the St. Louis Cardinals answered back after
• 2:14:34
  Chicago got five runs in the last half of the
• 2:14:35
  fifth inning. They came up with two of their
• 2:14:37
  own in the top half of the sixth inning. Got
• 2:14:41
  themselves up there in a 6 -6 deadlock. John
• 2:14:46
  Enfield in double play position. Harshman still
• 2:14:48
  holding the sack tightly against Bobby Morgan.
• 2:14:51
  Young rookie comes down with a short lead. Jones
• 2:14:54
  pitches into the plate. Over to Carl strike three.
• 2:14:58
  So he was serving up some dipsy do's here to
• 2:15:00
  Campanella and caught him looking. Carl strike
• 2:15:02
  three. And here comes Jack Mata. Carl Tansen
• 2:15:11
  walking up to his home plate. A pretty good hitting
• 2:15:15
  pitcher. One out Morgan waiting to be moved at
• 2:15:19
  first base. Same Bobby Morgan who won the most
• 2:15:24
  valuable player award of the International League
• 2:15:26
  and also the batting crowd. Been playing fine
• 2:15:29
  ball for the Dodgers all spring. Got off to a
• 2:15:32
  good start in the big leagues too. Curveball
• 2:15:34
  down under the knees, the big tall Fanta. Jack,
• 2:15:40
  as we told you, a big string bean, six two and
• 2:15:42
  a half, weighs about 170 pounds. Morgan with
• 2:15:48
  his lead again. Jones checks in. The pitch to
• 2:15:50
  the plate is high outside. Ball two. Sheldon,
• 2:15:57
  who will see a lot of relief work and starting
• 2:15:59
  assignments this year, has lost one ballgame.
• 2:16:04
  This is his first relief job. Thompson playing
• 2:16:09
  almost a straightaway center field. Don Miller,
• 2:16:12
  the right fielder, is going over towards right
• 2:16:14
  center. Jones ready to deliver 2 -0 to Banta.
• 2:16:17
  Does well. Ball three. The Giants 5 and the Dodgers
• 2:16:24
  5. One down in the last half of the sixth inning.
• 2:16:28
  Post -serial, bringing it all to you. And mother,
• 2:16:32
  don't forget, Sugarcrisp. The new cereal sensation.
• 2:16:37
  Another fine post -serial. Banta with the count
• 2:16:41
  is way 3 -0. Will be taking. Jones now steps
• 2:16:45
  off the mound, looking out towards the left field
• 2:16:49
  bullpen. That end turn just takes one step out
• 2:16:54
  of the batter's box. Now he's back in again,
• 2:16:57
  and Jones ready to work. Morgan with his lead
• 2:16:59
  once more. Here's a three -hulling pitch. A one
• 2:17:01
  -side on four. The batter, without looking at
• 2:17:05
  the strike, is on at first base, and that pushes
• 2:17:07
  Morgan up a notch to second. Westrom goes to
• 2:17:12
  the mound, and Reese walks up to the plate. Reese
• 2:17:15
  up there. Dodges with two mates aboard. Pitch
• 2:17:18
  a pass ball down inside. Ball one. Morgan to
• 2:17:22
  open up with a walk. Strikeout by Campanella.
• 2:17:24
  Sam is in with another walk to Vanna. And the
• 2:17:27
  Dodgers have something cooking here. One out.
• 2:17:29
  Five -five tie. Jones. Waiting around. A little
• 2:17:36
  control difficulties right now. Check second
• 2:17:40
  base. Goes to Reese and Peewee takes down inside
• 2:17:42
  again. Ball two. Resetting at one eighty eight.
• 2:17:48
  Walked his last time up. Get into a forced play
• 2:17:50
  and fly to left field. And now DeRoscher has
• 2:17:58
  switched his full pen and has Kirby Higby and
• 2:18:03
  Andy Hanson up showing a couple of right handers.
• 2:18:06
  Jones pitches a plate swallow on a ground ball.
• 2:18:58
  Another pitching wide to him. Ball two. First
• 2:19:01
  bases open so they'll load him up with one out.
• 2:19:03
  Take a chance on getting the double play and
• 2:19:05
  getting out of the beginning. He sent the run
• 2:19:28
  in and got Jack the third with his double as
• 2:19:30
  a second base. And Schuba who had just intentionally
• 2:19:33
  passed at first and brings up switch hitting
• 2:19:35
  Jimmy Russell. Jones pitched to him. Curve in
• 2:19:38
  there for a strike. One out. The giant hitter
• 2:19:42
  to French now laying back. Looking for that double
• 2:19:44
  play ball and they can get it. The Dodgers leading
• 2:19:48
  6 -5. One out. Last of the six. Jones pitch.
• 2:19:52
  Curve ball up tight against the Letters. strike
• 2:20:00
  one. Boy, this has been a humdinger. Seesaw up
• 2:20:03
  and down, hammer and songs all afternoon. Jones
• 2:20:07
  goes a curve, swung on, and dribble down along
• 2:20:09
  the first base line. Charge that bunt off the
• 2:21:02
  bat of Robinson and through the second base to
• 2:21:04
  Stanky in time. And they get Russell coming down
• 2:21:08
  from first base. The Dodgers move out in front.
• 2:21:11
  They get a run on a hit. They lead three men.
• 2:21:14
  And there were no giant errors. So at the end
• 2:21:18
  of sixth complete, the Dodgers out in front by
• 2:21:21
  the score of six to five. Now once again for
• 2:21:24
  posterios, here's the old redhead, Red Barker.
• 2:21:26
  Thank you, Connie. You've been sort of busy,
• 2:21:28
  haven't you? Oh, what a day. What a day. Well,
• 2:21:31
  for all you folks around the country, here we
• 2:21:33
  go into the seventh inning. Ed Stanky takes inside
• 2:21:35
  for ball one. Maybe you don't know how the Dodgers
• 2:21:37
  and the Johns play. Now you're beginning to find
• 2:21:39
  out. This is a pretty good sample. They just
• 2:21:41
  play all day and half the night. Of course, under
• 2:21:44
  the league rules, they can turn the lights on,
• 2:21:45
  keep on going. Pitch all over for a cause strong.
• 2:21:49
  One ball and one strike. Stanky first up in the
• 2:21:52
  seventh. Jack Bana, the third of Brooklyn's pitchers,
• 2:21:54
  and it's up to Bana to win or lose the game.
• 2:21:57
  It's a hit six five. Stanky swings, grinds it
• 2:21:59
  over third, out of the left field, sent for a
• 2:22:00
  base hit. Schubert blocks the ball, then has
• 2:22:03
  it get away from him. Stanky, however, holds
• 2:22:04
  up the first. Realizes he can't get the second,
• 2:22:06
  so it's just the hit. Stanky is single out of
• 2:22:10
  the left field, and the tying run is thus put
• 2:22:12
  off immediately by the Giants. Stanky's on for
• 2:22:14
  the third time today. Two walks and a base hit.
• 2:22:21
  Six five, Brooklyn. Heidi Lachman stepping in
• 2:22:26
  and looks down to the third base coaching box
• 2:22:29
  where the MGR de Rocha is. Gets the orders, whether
• 2:22:32
  to butt, what to do. Lance Plotbilin, young rookie
• 2:22:36
  right -hander, who won the second game of the
• 2:22:38
  season for the Dodgers in the bullpen. Lachman
• 2:22:41
  swings, the line drive. steps on the bag, wow,
• 2:23:04
  just like that. Happened so quickly, DeRosha
• 2:23:06
  didn't even know he didn't have any base runner
• 2:23:08
  anymore. That's almost as quick as the way Post
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  Sugarcrisp was selling. That's the brand new
• 2:23:17
  one, boy it has taken over. Okay, here we go
• 2:23:21
  now with third baseman Henry Thompson who made
• 2:23:23
  the key error back in Brooklyn's four on fifth
• 2:23:25
  inning. Left hand hitter, takes a curve low end
• 2:23:28
  side ball one. Second double play in the game
• 2:23:32
  for the Dodgers, now fourth of the year. Hodges,
• 2:23:36
  unassisted on the line drive, first baseman.
• 2:23:40
  There's a high drive, it's deep out toward right
• 2:23:42
  center field. It's going way back out there.
• 2:23:44
  It is over in the back of the avenue for a big
• 2:23:46
  home run. And it's a brand new ball game, and
• 2:23:49
  Henry Thompson knocks it. And to his home will
• 2:23:52
  be sent a case of sugar crisp. Oh, he hit it
• 2:23:57
  high over that 40 -foot screen in right center
• 2:23:59
  field. So it should all even at seven and seven.
• 2:24:05
  This gives Thompson a run for a perfect day.
• 2:24:07
  He had a single and two walks and now he has
• 2:24:09
  his home run. And this gives Henry five hits
• 2:24:12
  out of 10 at -batch. It's his fourth run batted
• 2:24:15
  in and third home run of the season. He's leading
• 2:24:17
  the Giants in the extra races. Don Muehler out.
• 2:24:20
  Batter's pitch is a curve over for a cross -fright.
• 2:24:25
  Brand new ball game. Big home run by Henry Thompson.
• 2:24:28
  He got it. Ball hit down the right field corner,
• 2:24:35
  Corello goes over, jumps and makes a one minute
• 2:24:36
  catch at the base of the country ball. And the
• 2:24:40
  Giants really hit the paddle very hard, don't
• 2:24:44
  they come out of the air with just one run. There
• 2:24:46
  was body up there, hit that ball. Double play
• 2:24:48
  ball to the back of it, one run, two hits. So
• 2:24:51
  she's all tied, 6 -6. So the ball game is bigger
• 2:24:55
  and better than ever, isn't it? And folks, the
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  for 50 cents. Carl Prelo, first up last to the
• 2:25:51
  7th. Sheldon Jones, the right -hander on the
• 2:25:53
  mound for New York. His game to win or lose,
• 2:25:54
  too. 6 -6 tie, curve, low outside, ball wide.
• 2:25:58
  A couple of young, hard -throwing right -handers
• 2:26:00
  are going at it now. Gladys Gooding at the electric
• 2:26:04
  organ here at Ebbets Field. Just played my old
• 2:26:05
  Kentucky home as a tribute to Mr. Chandler, who's
• 2:26:09
  attending today's game. Fastball over, far far
• 2:26:13
  strike, one and one. Johns, right -hander delivers,
• 2:26:17
  Prowler swings and misses. Strike two, one ball,
• 2:26:20
  two strikes, one and two. Jake Pitlin, coaching
• 2:26:25
  on his 56th birthday at Perch Base. Northern
• 2:26:27
  Stock, who happens also to be Eddie Stanky's
• 2:26:30
  father -in -law. Pushing it third. Sheldon Johns,
• 2:26:35
  who a couple of years ago was a professional
• 2:26:36
  fighter, then decided baseball was a better athletic
• 2:26:40
  enterprise. Sheldon Johns on the mound. Dog,
• 2:26:46
  brown eyes. Gorillo. Leans in. Carey with it
• 2:26:50
  outside, and it is ball two. Two balls, two strikes.
• 2:26:55
  Two and two. Pittsburgh has defeated Cincinnati,
• 2:27:00
  nine to two. The Braves will now win three out
• 2:27:03
  of three. Knocked off the Phillies. Three to
• 2:27:05
  two. Pass ball inside and the count is called.
• 2:27:10
  Three and two to Pirello. Goll is one for three.
• 2:27:13
  He's single in the fifth inning. Tied the ball
• 2:27:16
  game at that point. Five and five. Dodgers had
• 2:27:20
  a run in the sixth to go ahead six -five. And
• 2:27:22
  Henry Thompson just smacked one for the Sugarcrisp
• 2:27:24
  to tie it up six -six. Cross -check three. Pirello
• 2:27:28
  is caught to the pitch on the outside. John strikes
• 2:27:31
  him up. And gives Sheldon three strikeouts. Grosch
• 2:27:35
  is sticking right along with him. I guess because
• 2:27:37
  you think if you haven't got anybody nearly as
• 2:27:39
  good in the both then. And it's fate's dividend
• 2:27:41
  because he got out of a mess of trouble in the
• 2:27:42
  sixth inning. Had the bases loaded when he went
• 2:27:45
  out and didn't allow any further scoring. Gil
• 2:27:51
  Hodges with one, four, three. And that was a
• 2:27:55
  home run. And it's fresh that bat today. Takes
• 2:27:58
  a good curve ball out for a false strike. The
• 2:28:00
  whole infield is now caught in the full shadow
• 2:28:03
  of the stands with the sun going down behind
• 2:28:05
  them. Center field and right field is still in
• 2:28:08
  sun. Right hander pitches high outside ball one.
• 2:28:14
  One ball one strike. No action neither clubs
• 2:28:18
  go pin. The Yankees didn't score in the ninth
• 2:28:23
  inning. They're going into 10th inning Washington
• 2:28:26
  New York tied 6 -6. And then the Jones pitches
• 2:28:32
  and hard to hit the ground ball, back pass the
• 2:28:34
  ball, it's up to Doc, he goes over to first base,
• 2:28:38
  just in time, has it up. Go up to first. Two
• 2:28:44
  men up, two men retiring. The even -up status,
• 2:28:49
  6 '6 is this, back to seven. And Bob Morgan,
• 2:28:53
  who's had one hit for two at best today. Rookie,
• 2:28:56
  he's the batting champion in the international
• 2:28:58
  league last year, he's hitting... 533 right now,
• 2:29:02
  8 for 15. And then the Jones pitches and Mr.
• 2:29:06
  Curve a little outside with this quickie right
• 2:29:09
  hand batter. Long Bob Morgan. Infield is back.
• 2:29:22
  Curve is good. fighting desperately when they
• 2:29:36
  first came out of four this year. Balling takes
• 2:29:39
  a care about side ball too. Dodgers fighting
• 2:29:42
  just as grimly. They make a three straight victory
• 2:29:45
  for them. They lost opening game for Philadelphia.
• 2:29:50
  There is no quarter ask and there's certainly
• 2:29:52
  none given when these two clubs lock horns, I
• 2:29:55
  tell you that. 2 -1 pitch. Fast ball is good
• 2:29:59
  at the knees. Fourth ball strike two. Turn two.
• 2:30:18
  Two and two. Pitch high inside on the hands of
• 2:30:28
  all three. Three balls, two strikes. Morgan,
• 2:30:36
  with a very relaxed ball player. Holds it back,
• 2:30:42
  back. A lot of cat -like stillness. The pitch
• 2:30:44
  is... it down in order. One, two, three in the
• 2:30:51
  last half of the seventh inning. That's four
• 2:30:53
  strikeouts for Sheldon, A for Abel, or available
• 2:30:58
  Jones. And here we go into the eighth inning.
• 2:31:00
  The center fielder by the Thompson, first step
• 2:31:02
  for the Giants, taking the batter's spare for
• 2:31:04
  a called strike. Spare ball swung on and there's
• 2:31:06
  a high fly in the short center. Russell coming
• 2:31:08
  in, he's under it. And he's got it. So that is
• 2:31:13
  all for center fielder by the Thompson. First
• 2:31:15
  step from the eighth inning. Alvin Dawes, shortstop
• 2:31:19
  who's gone over. two. Right hand batter. Kerr
• 2:31:25
  has swung on line right back to the middle out
• 2:31:26
  of the center field and it's a base hit for a
• 2:31:28
  dog. He's right on around first takes a big turn
• 2:31:31
  and holds up the throw coming in from Russell.
• 2:31:34
  Second base shortstop. The dog comes up the first
• 2:31:38
  hit of the day single in the center. Rookie Jack
• 2:31:43
  Hoshman falls under left hand hitting first baseman
• 2:31:46
  is now up to New York hitting seventh on the
• 2:31:47
  batting card. in the stop position. Delivers.
• 2:31:52
  There's a ball hit high out into the right center
• 2:31:54
  field. Russell, the center fielder, getting under
• 2:31:56
  it. Dog tagging up at first. There's the catch.
• 2:31:59
  And Dog's touch, second and holds on. Russell's
• 2:32:01
  losing time, getting that ball to second this
• 2:32:02
  time. Stanky got the jump on him and went in
• 2:32:07
  there, if you recall, after the ball had been
• 2:32:10
  caught in the third inning. So two men are going
• 2:32:15
  in the game. And catch your Western. First swim,
• 2:32:19
  right hand hitter. Takes a cut of the curve,
• 2:32:22
  hits it down to a third. Morgan up with it on
• 2:32:23
  a big foul and throws to face him. Down the ball
• 2:32:25
  for the Giants after the eighth inning. No runs,
• 2:32:30
  one hit. And it still remains locked at 6 and
• 2:32:34
  6. Now we're moving into the last half of the
• 2:32:40
  eighth inning. It's the 6 -6 ball game. Jones
• 2:32:44
  on the mound for the Giants. Clarence Pudd -Beland.
• 2:32:47
  Right -hander in the bullpen for the Dodgers.
• 2:32:51
  Campanella up hitting 8. Banner is supposed to
• 2:32:53
  hit next, but maybe a pinch hitter. We'll see.
• 2:32:56
  So, curveball right over for a ball struck. Man
• 2:33:02
  of the shot, of course, will not make up his
• 2:33:04
  mind whether he wishes to hit for a batter or
• 2:33:06
  not. We'll see what happens. Campanella. Pitch
• 2:33:10
  is high inside. Oh wow. One and one. Kerr blue
• 2:33:15
  outside to Roy. Ball 2. Questions fall all the
• 2:33:19
  way. Hoshman at first base, Banky at second,
• 2:33:21
  Dawkins short, and the third baseman Henry Thompson,
• 2:33:24
  who's becoming quite a ball player for the Giants.
• 2:33:26
  Left field, Whitey Lockman in center, Bobby Thompson,
• 2:33:29
  and the right fielder is Don Mueller. Two on
• 2:33:34
  pitch, fastball through there, and it's two and
• 2:33:37
  two. Two balls, two strikes. Cappanella, stocky,
• 2:33:44
  very strong, and very durable. 2 -2 pitch is
• 2:33:52
  hung on a miss. That's 3. The Roy is stuck out.
• 2:33:56
  Well, let's see what manager Shotten does. Does
• 2:33:59
  he want Banner to hit? Or does he want to hit
• 2:34:02
  a 4? It's gonna be Jack Banner because, says
• 2:34:06
  Mr. Shotten, here at this late stage, 6 -6. I'll
• 2:34:09
  go over him and pitch it. Happiest step back
• 2:34:15
  in the left. Banner left hand hitter. Strong
• 2:34:17
  ball hit down the first base. Juggle by Hodgkin.
• 2:34:19
  Tick -tock. He can't pick it up. Hoshman catches
• 2:34:23
  up to the ball and he's tied for the narrow.
• 2:34:25
  The second tight error of the day and Batter
• 2:34:27
  is on first base to the boot. The matter of whether
• 2:34:31
  Tom Lyre, if he would walk in the sixth inning,
• 2:34:33
  you would recall. Now he gets on through the
• 2:34:36
  error of young Jack Hoshman. Peewee Rees up,
• 2:34:42
  Jack Batter on it first, a 6 -6 tie. Just how
• 2:34:46
  long the game goes depends a lot, of course,
• 2:34:48
  on what Brooklyn does here in the last D18. Man,
• 2:34:52
  these ball games are just as tough as taxes,
• 2:34:54
  you know it. Whoa! High inside, gets up the catcher's
• 2:34:57
  glove, down the catcher's glove. Banner and Peewee
• 2:34:59
  dropped to get out of the way of a high inside
• 2:35:01
  fastball, and Weston couldn't come up with it.
• 2:35:04
  Charged a wild pitch, and Banner, the possible
• 2:35:06
  winning run, goes to second base. Now Jones loaded
• 2:35:09
  the pitch. Peewee cuts to the high, pop fly in
• 2:35:13
  the short left field. Shortstop Dogg is out.
• 2:35:15
  And he grabs it for out number two, and Banner
• 2:35:19
  stays put at second base. a series of a combination
• 2:35:23
  of an error and a foul put. Therese pops up to
• 2:35:26
  short, and George Schuba gets another opportunity.
• 2:35:30
  George has not been hitting, and if he's not
• 2:35:31
  careful, he's going to be shoot, shoot, Schuba
• 2:35:34
  to the bench, and Gene Homanski back in lefty.
• 2:35:36
  Schuba has one hit for 10. He has not looked
• 2:35:40
  completely sure in lefty. Oh, in other words,
• 2:35:42
  he's been quite tense. He had a big opportunity.
• 2:35:47
  If you recall, in the fifth inning, with the
• 2:35:48
  bases loaded and one out, and he fouled out to
• 2:35:50
  the first baseman. He's 0 -2 today. A 10 batter.
• 2:35:55
  Outfield toward right. Johns pitches. Curve low
• 2:35:59
  outside for ball one. This could be quite a pivotal
• 2:36:02
  outback for Schubert. Of course, it may be that
• 2:36:04
  he won't get anything too good to hit at the
• 2:36:06
  first base open. However, Jim Russell, who follows,
• 2:36:10
  I think the judge regarded him more dangerous
• 2:36:12
  hitter, so I expect he'll be pitching to George.
• 2:36:15
  However, will Sue know? Things sort of quiet
• 2:36:19
  the second to three. Do not remain quiescent
• 2:36:22
  very long around Ebbets Field here in Flatbush.
• 2:36:25
  The manager on the jam will go out to the pitchers
• 2:36:27
  and hit them on the mound and say, now listen,
• 2:36:30
  you know who's up there hitting those two. All
• 2:36:32
  right, now listen. Don't walk, but don't give
• 2:36:35
  them anything good to swing on. That's what Fitz
• 2:36:40
  Heman says McGraw used to send word out about.
• 2:36:42
  Swung on the line, driving it fast into the right
• 2:36:45
  field corner for a base hit. Shuber comes in
• 2:36:49
  to second base and holds up with a double. And
• 2:36:52
  it was a privilege at bat all the way around.
• 2:36:54
  And Bookman was out in 5th, 9th, 7th, or 6th.
• 2:36:57
  13th run of the game. So Shuber doubles inside
• 2:37:04
  first. That's going to run his first run of the
• 2:37:07
  year. And Jack Battle, who got onto the arrow,
• 2:37:11
  scores. That's the seventh run for the Dodgers,
• 2:37:15
  and I know DeRosha must be raging because of
• 2:37:17
  the seven Brooklyn runs, only two out of his
• 2:37:19
  four is earned. The other five are unearned.
• 2:37:23
  Now the batter is the switcher to Jim Russell.
• 2:37:28
  Andy Hanson, tall young right -hander from Lakewood,
• 2:37:31
  Florida is in the bullpen now for the Giants.
• 2:37:36
  The Chicago Cubs came up with a run in the last
• 2:37:38
  half the ninth inning and beat the St. Louis
• 2:37:40
  Cardinals for the second straight time seven
• 2:37:42
  to six and the Cardinals have now lost their
• 2:37:44
  last four ball game. Pitch, fast ball high and
• 2:37:49
  side ball one. One no pitch, put on and bowled
• 2:37:55
  back. The Cubs have beaten the Cardinals seven
• 2:37:58
  to six. Paulette who came on in the eighth inning
• 2:38:01
  is the losing pitcher for St. Louis. The Braves
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  knock off the Phillies 3 to 2, and the Pirates
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  beat the Reds 9 to 2. And Washington has just
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  beaten the Yankees in the 10th inning, 7 to 6.
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  In 7 to 6, Brooklyn, Russell cuts, fouled it
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  back, and it's a ball and two strikes. So things
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  are rapidly coming to a rather dramatic denouement
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  all over the baseball picture this afternoon.
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  Washington hangs on and knocks off the Yankees,
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  7 to 6, in 10 minutes. At the end of 10 and a
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  half innings, it's a 5 -5 tie between the Red
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  Sox and the Athletics. Detroit has just beaten
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  Chicago 5 -0. Hootman pitches to shut up. Russell
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  takes a fast back three, kicks about it, but
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  the ball, and so ends the last half of the eighth
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  inning here at Brooklyn. That's the fifth strikeout
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  for Jones, and it's a run for the Dodgers on
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  a hit. One giant error, which again, was decisive.
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  So the Giants coming into the top of ninth, the
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  run behind, Brooklyn 8 -7 -6. Pete Milne, rookie
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  left hand hitting outfielder, is going to hit
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  for Sheldon Jones to start the ninth inning.
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  And Jack Madder on the mound for Brooklyn delivers.
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  Call strike, fast ball on the outside. That'll
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  works. Milne hits the curve ball down the first,
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  up with his hardy arms over to the bag. He's
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  there for the outfielder. So Milne, hitting for
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  Jones, is retired, commencing the ninth inning.
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  Dodgers seven. Giants six. Top of the order,
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  Ed Stanky. Stanky crosses, right hand hitter.
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  Swings, there's a five ball hit back at the center
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  field. Russell going back, still going back.
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  Kearns makes the catch. Two -one -one. So the
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  Giants run behind, are down to their last out.
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  Dodgers seven, the Giants six. This is going
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  to be a tough four game every inch of the way.
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  Tipped that whistling line drive and Hodges with
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  those fine hands of his, turns it into an immediate
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  double play in the seventh inning. Lachman hitting
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  the three -sixteen, six for nineteen. Batters,
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  that is. Takes a side from Campanella. Throws.
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  There's a high pop fly. They sit on the left
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  center fielder, Russell. The center fielder gets
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  under it, gets under it. He's got it. Check the
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  runs, hits, and errors, and the other scores
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  for you just a second. But you know, one thing
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  these Dodgers put a premium on is speed. Yes,
• 2:40:57
  sir, they're running this ball club in either
• 2:40:59
  league. And they need to stay that way, too,
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  by keeping in top physical condition. And that
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  most certainly includes getting nourishing meals.
• 2:41:06
  In fact, to quote the boss in these parts, Bryce
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  Shotten, if you ask me, says Barney, eating proper
• 2:41:13
  meals is only ordinary common sense. For ballplayers
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  or for anybody. Who has work to do? Well, that's
• 2:41:20
  why I manage a shot and agrees when we say, begin
• 2:41:23
  the day the right way with the right kind of
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  breakfast. A breakfast that includes fruit or
• 2:41:28
  fruit juice, bread and butter, beverage and a
• 2:41:30
  cereal. That way you're getting the kind of a
• 2:41:33
  start you need to keep going right through the
• 2:41:35
  morning. And I say, do as so many of the Dodgers
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  do. Make that cereal in your breakfast a post
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  cereal. Because there is good solid nourishment
• 2:41:46
  in every one of these great P .O .S .T. Post
• 2:41:49
  Serials. Remember that you get the most when
• 2:41:52
  you get post. For the Dodgers today, their third
• 2:41:56
  straight win, seven runs on seven hits and no
• 2:42:04
  errors. And for the Giants, six runs, eight hits
• 2:42:07
  and two errors. And those two errors made possible
• 2:42:09
  five earn -earn runs as they are technically
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  scored. The winning pitcher is Jack Bannas, his
• 2:42:14
  first decision of the year. The losing pitch
• 2:42:16
  is of course Jones who now hasn't won his last
• 2:42:19
  two and for the Giants this gives them an all
• 2:42:23
  -for -four record for the season which of course
• 2:42:24
  is very tough for the Polo Grounders and for
• 2:42:27
  De Rocha. For the Dodgers after losing opening
• 2:42:29
  day this is their third straight success. Now
• 2:42:33
  very quickly around the post scoreboard in the
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  National League everything else is complete the
• 2:42:38
  Cubs beat the Cardinals 7 -6 for the run in the
• 2:42:41
  last of the ninth inning. Boston with Elliott
• 2:42:44
  hitting a home run of the eighth with one on,
• 2:42:46
  beat the Phillies three to two, and Pittsburgh
• 2:42:49
  had an easy time knocking off Cincinnati nine
• 2:42:52
  to two. In the American League, Washington defeated
• 2:42:55
  the Yankees in the 10th inning, seven to six.
• 2:43:00
  Detroit had Todd Hootman put a shutout and knock
• 2:43:03
  off Chicago five to nothing. At the end of three
• 2:43:08
  and a half innings, it is Cleveland over the
• 2:43:10
  St. Louis Browns, five to one. And in the Boston
• 2:43:13
  Athletic game, they've gone into the 11th inning
• 2:43:15
  tied at 5 and 5. So, our friends, that is that.
• 2:43:22
  And we hope that you have enjoyed being with
• 2:43:26
  us Saturday afternoon at Brooklyn. Boy, it's
• 2:43:29
  quite a place. So, for you folks all around the
• 2:43:33
  country on the network, join us again the next
• 2:43:37
  Saturday. The Dodgers are at Evans Field. And
• 2:43:39
  of course for the folks in New York, as the broadcast
• 2:43:41
  goes on seven days a week, we'll be in Venice
• 2:43:44
  at the same old stand at two o 'clock tomorrow.
• 2:43:47
  Connie Desmond and Ben Scully and the old redhead,
• 2:43:52
  Red Barber, will be on hand to be bringing you
• 2:43:54
  the game between the Dodgers and the Giants.
• 2:43:57
  It's been fun handing you out this one for post
• 2:44:00
  -serials, and we certainly hope you've enjoyed
• 2:44:02
  it. And if you have... Remember that you say
• 2:44:04
  thanks every time that you bring home a package
• 2:44:07
  of any of the famous post cereals. Post toasters,
• 2:44:11
  post -grape nuts, and grape nut flakes, post
• 2:44:15
  -raisin brand, 40 % brand flakes, or post -hens.
• 2:44:19
  Say, if you're one of the folks who haven't tried
• 2:44:21
  post -sugar crisp yet, man, be sure to look for
• 2:44:25
  the cellophane bag with the three little honey
• 2:44:27
  bears on it today. Now, this is the old, redhead,
• 2:44:31
  red barber saying so long.