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t said flist basepsa Johnny Mize. mdspeakers began asldng faras
fo “That hapfe»:at,Se time. Mfe aB ci ► Inndly stay off the field until
se about 25 caps a year to fans le players had left the diamond.
ho grab them off our heads.”
ne Dodger fan insisted he’d seen ISBW ON MAY 4, Iwo Durocher
Broglier gallop toward Boysen, sumed his managership of
iclieS-pwicb him, kick him hard 8 New York Giants, and every
id tli^n jump up and down on him .nectator in the park gave hfai
itil (Sants coach Frankie Frisch . ... ——=»=, a standing ovation as he
illedSim off. Fifech denied that . Afw IWl Was Oyer w-c«b«| walked to the dugout and
1 *I didn’t see it.” JSTSSfrfDSSJWW’” ■ the PA system' crooned, “I
Boysen was rushed to , i i v - You As I Never Did
rdenhain Hospital with what ■ ■■ -■ j ; Before.” It was seen that
ere described as serious internal Injuries. “I I Durocher was crimson with
■ terrific pains,” he moaned. Meanwhile, as he i • •‘Unjustiflabie,” ruled the embarrassment. Thereafter,
as Puerto Rican, he had instantly ’oecome a civil I DaBy New ’ Jimmy Powers. IHIIIIK- the Giants raked the Pirates,
gilts cause celebre, and activists led by dancer Bill I “Not that Durocher is an 111-4.
tojangtes) Rohmson were demanding that Baseball I angel, but let’s wait, please,
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ommissirtner Happy Chandler punish Boysen’s j unta he is convicted of any ^REDBWSEN,
lacker at one®. Early Friday, Chandler handed I overt act against a Polo meanwhile, had found
tJurocher an indefinite suspension, pending a hearing, j Grounds patron beyond the
Suddenly, this was no trivial matter. Leo Durocher 1 peradventure of a doubt.
^aillinuDiimdieij another lawyer and
jdged an assault charge
was looking at getting banned from the game for life. 1 ,., In our years of writing .. ................ .................................... ; against Durocher, In court on I5
I baseball, we’ve seen this ' Monday the Sth, discovering
TWO HOURS after Durocher heard about the j same thing happen dozens tat his witnesses had
suspension, Sydenham reteased Boysen. There was
' no evidence of Injury, the doctors said, not even
j of times. ...The Giant
! dugout should be more .
changed their minds about
: appearing in his behalf, he
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bruises; the patient was, in short, faking. The cabbie ] careftilly policed.” dropped his complaint, *I
who bad driven him to the hospital came forward to ! Remarkably, considering have no case,” he shrugged.
report that Boysen seemed quite fine daring the trip I that Durocher was a man for whom It was not always (
i easy to feel affection, fans spontaneously rose up in
Then he mumbled an apology to Durocher, walked
i out and disappeared from the headlines, insisting to
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and had gleefully talked about nothing but toe big Ci
lawsBit payoff he was sure to collect. A lawyer Boy.sen { a mighty show of support, Dodger and Giant rooters j reporters as he vanished that he’d never hurled any a
i alike, voluntarily offering eyewitness affidavits j abuse at all. “Just the normal razzing of any fan,” he S-
had retained dropped him on the spot. Robinson
jumped out of the case as fast as he could. I swearing that Boysen had been a punk and Durocher ( said. >
This now left as the villain of the piece Clianffier, I had never socked him. Durocher’s lawyers cotiW
who had suinmariJy ordered the suspension without I have coBected thousands of such statements; they , i Originatly published in the BIG TOWN W
hearing aoy testimony. I stopped at 100. The “somewhat startling Durocher i CHRONICLES series. P
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