Summer of '49: The Yankees and the Red Sox in Postwar America
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Boudreau, Lou, 3, 7, 8, 70, 93, 149, 274, 313
Bowery Savings Bank, 300
box scores, 108, 109
Bradley, Bill, 66
Brissie, Lou, 87
Britt, Jim, 115, 176, 269-270
Brooklyn Dodgers, 1, 19, 44, 58, 105, 109, 124, 138-139, 161, 198, 226, 245, 246, 263, 275-285
Brown, Bobby, 23-24, 35, 57, 61, 76, 100-101, 118, 119-120, 193, 247, 249, 259, 268, 310
Burns, Jack, 289
Byrne, Tommy, 2, 4, 89, 118, 125, 151, 162, 232-236, 250, 283, 311
Calvert, Paul, 71
Camilli, Dolf, 116
Campanella, Roy. 276, 277
Campbell, Joseph, xi
Cannon, Jimmy, 44, 50-52, 124, 129, 130, 132, 194
Cardinal Chain Gang, 154
card playing, 23, 25
Carmody, Tom, 262
Carroll, Parke, 195-196
Cashman, Joe, 25, 179, 254
catching, 78-79, 83-86
CBS, 160, 161
Chandler, Spud, 35, 74, 231, 295
change-up pitch, 20-21
Chaplin, Charlie, 131
Chapman, Ben, 171, 172
Chapman, Sam, 236-237
Chase Hotel, 53
Chicago Cubs, 22, 23, 75, 284
Chicago Tribune, 50
Chicago White Sox, 72, 75, 98, 134, 188, 236, 238
Cincinnati Reds, 141, 209, 315
Civilian Conservation Corps team, 95
Cleveland Indians, 41, 78, 194, 293, 315
first black in American League with, 278
Henrich and, 66-67
1948 pennant race of, 2-3, 6-9, 21
in 1948 World Series, 15
1949 season of, 58, 98, 125, 145, 149, 205
1954 pennant race of, 295
pitching of, 72, 183
Coan, Gil, 252
Cobb, Ty, 30
Cohen, Sammy, 177
Coleman, Jerry, 32-37, 117, 138, 157, 193, 240, 246, 253, 256, 258, 259, 270-273, 279, 282-283, 292-293, 310, 315
Coleman, Joe, 87
Coleman, Louise, 32-33
Collins, Eddie, 141, 169
commercials, 162-163, 220-221, 222-224, 310, 313
Commissioner of Baseball, 116
Considine, Bob, 261
Conway, Jack, 9
Corn Exchange Bank, 262
Cosgrove, Ruth, 56-57
Cramer, Doc, 171, 172
Cramer, Richard Ben, 174
Croatian immigrants, 14
Cronin, Joe, 20, 64, 90, 139, 141, 142, 151-152, 155, 172, 184, 199, 200, 217, 230, 240
Crosby, Bing, 109
Crosetti, Frank, 36, 53, 57, 116, 118-120, 232
Cuyler, Kiki, 165
Daley, Arthur, 32
Daniel, Clifton, 107
Daniel, Dan, 105-107, 197
Davis, Lorenzo “Piper,” 200, 288-289
Dean, Dizzy, 96
Dean, Paul, 96
Delta State team, 314
Dente, Sam, 252
Depression, Great, 49, 63-64, 94
Detroit, Mich., 228
Detroit Tigers, 3, 29, 125, 135-136, 145, 183, 186, 187, 218, 228, 235, 236, 247-248, 290
Dewey, Thomas E., 70
DeWitt, Charley, 217
Dickey, Bill, 36, 54, 70-71, 83-84, 101, 234, 281, 296
Dickey, Vi, 103
Digby, George, 199-200
DiMaggio, Dominic, 4-5, 12-13, 17, 20-21, 110-111, 116, 138, 164, 183, 184-185, 205-212, 213, 218, 230, 239, 250, 255, 256, 267, 269, 273-274, 309, 313-314
DiMaggio, Emily, 273-274
DiMaggio, Giuseppe. 12-13, 207, 255
DiMaggio, Joe, 37-60, 127, 129, 132-133, 298-303
after-game ritual of, 46-47
Allen and, 157-159, 161
autobiography of, 68
coffee drinking and smoking of, 118, 133
Dom and, 4-5, 205-206, 207, 210-212, 255
family of, 12-13, 168, 207-208, 209, 248
fans and, 5, 10, 41-42, 47, 68, 69, 116, 148, 150, 261, 299-300
friends of, 41, 44, 50-53, 55-57, 123-124, 132, 133, 302-303
hitting of, 89, 156, 167, 188, 205, 210, 258, 270, 279, 298-299
illness of, 255, 260, 267, 272
injuries of, 3, 9, 37-41, 58, 69, 70, 98, 102, 121, 127, 132-133, 237, 238, 298-299
Joe DiMaggio Day, 255
managers and, 25, 32
as most famous athlete, 41-42, 285
in 1948 pennant race, 1, 2-3, 4-5, 9
press and, 39, 44-45, 47-48, 50-52, 168, 211, 213, 240, 300
recovery and return of, 148-152, 156-158, 163
retirement and postbaseball careers of, 283, 298-299
salary holdout of, 48-50, 193-194
salary of, 299, 300
statistics of, 42, 53-54, 172, 301
talent and skill of, 41-44, 53-54, 57, 149-151, 155, 156-158, 193, 285
teammates and, 36, 46, 52-55, 57-60, 83, 245, 259, 260, 300
temperament and social skills of, 4-5, 40-41, 44-47, 51-57, 135, 136
at Toots Shors, 127, 129, 132, 133
Williams vs., 45, 109, 168, 172, 179-180, 188
women and, 51, 52-53, 55-57, 124, 301
DiMaggio, Rosalie, 13, 207-208, 209, 255
DiMaggio, Dom, 209
DiMaggio, Vince, 207, 209
DiMaggio Boboes, 55
Dobson, Joe, 87, 89, 137, 145, 146, 155, 174, 178, 216, 229, 258-259, 260, 266, 270, 314
Doby, Larry, 278
Doerr, Bobby, 17, 111, 112-115, 116, 123, 137, 138, 151, 164, 165, 166, 170, 171-172, 173, 184-185, 207, 217, 237, 239, 241-242, 245, 250, 252, 256, 267, 268-269, 271, 272, 304-305, 309-310, 314
Dowd, Tom, 204
Drebinger, John, 32, 38, 107, 199
Dressen, Chuck, 73-74
drinking, in baseball, 12, 21-22, 34, 51, 74, 91-93, 102, 103, 120, 136-138, 175, 176-177, 274, 290
Dropkick Murphy’s, 176
Dropo, Wall, 76, 87-88, 265, 314
drugs, 12
DuMont, Allen B., 221
DuMont network, 220-222
Durocher, Leo, 14, 248
Easter, Luke, 293
Ebbets Field, 263
Edison Hotel, 23, 45, 51, 148
Ed Sullivan Show, The, 227
Effrat, Lou, 50, 52-53, 55, 103-104, 105, 107, 129-130
Egan, Dave, 174-179, 218, 290, 315
endorsements, 12, 15-16
Ennis, Del, 277-278
Epstein, Ben, 109
Esquire, 174
Estalella, Bobby, 71
Etten, Nick, 104
European immigrants, 12-14
Evans, Billy, 66, 139
Even the Browns (Mead), 217
fans:
black, 276-277
of Boston Red Sox, 1-2, 7, 100, 115-116, 217-218, 308
of Joe DiMaggio, 5, 10, 41-42, 47, 68, 69, 116, 148, 150, 261, 299-300
of New York Yankees, 10-11, 68-70, 109-111, 158, 220, 225, 232, 263, 266
of Williams, 22, 109, 115, 138, 176, 179-180, 306-307
Faupel, Leonard, 223-224, 225
Feller, Bob, 2, 5, 10, 57, 72, 73, 76, 183-184, 205, 232, 280, 298
Fenway Park. 5, 6-7, 17, 20, 88, 91, 151, 152, 154, 155, 156, 167, 184, 186, 187, 216, 251, 254, 268
Ferriss, Dave “Boo,” 11, 18-19, 58, 98, 142, 185, 205, 273, 314
Fiddler on the Roof, 56
fights, 11, 223
football. 11-12, 109, 129, 223, 246, 303
Ford, Whitey, 73, 76, 90, 122-123, 246, 283-284
Fox, Nellie, 249
Foxx, Jimmie, 136-137, 143, 171-172, 217
Frazee, Harry, 16
Frazier, George, 177
Freeman, Otis, 221-222, 224-225
Froelich, Gus, 145
fungo stick, 63, 210
Furillo, Carl, 116, 281
Galehouse, Denny, 8-9, 98
Gamble, Lee, 67
games, train, 99-101
Garcia, Mike, 72
; Gaynor, Sydney, 237, 238
Gehrig, Lou, 10, 25, 48, 59, 68, 101, 104, 118, 161-162
German immigrants, 14, 65
Giamatti, Bartlett, 115-116, 269-270, 305-306
Giamatti, Mary, 115
Giamatti, Valentine, 115
Gibson, Josh, 188
Gilbert, Larry, 67
Gillette Company, 15, 220-221, 222-223, 275
Gilliam, Hartley, 96, 97
Gilliam, Preacher, 96-97
Gionfriddo, Al, 44
glasses, 205, 206, 209-210, 211
Gleason, Jackie, 130
Glennon, Eddie, 199, 200
Goldberg, Hy, 59
Golenbock, Peter, 199
golf, 12, 299
Gomez, Lefty, 36, 52, 161-162, 173, 183, 204, 205
Goodman, Billy, 24, 26, 87-88, 256, 272
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 300
Gordon, Joe, 65, 117
Gould, Jack, 163
Gould, Stephen Jay, 41-42
Gowdy, Curt, 12, 32, 93, 101-103, 148-149, 187, 222, 266, 312
Graduate, The, 302
Graham, Charley, 209
Graham, Frank, 106
Green, Pumpsie, 197
Greenberg, Hank, 4, 99, 228
Greenwade, Tom, 284
Grieve, Bill, 250
Gross, Milton, 50, 109
Grossinger’s, 273
Grove, Lefty, 137, 143, 172
Gutteridge, Don, 217
Hall of Fame (Cooperstown, N.Y.), 93, 114, 187-188, 305, 310
Harney, Roy, 192
Haney, Fred, 114, 172
Harlem Globetrotters, 289
Harridge, Will, 180
Harriman, Averell, 41
Harris, Bucky, 3, 5, 31, 82, 104-105, 235
Harris, Mickey, 18, 19, 58, 146, 147, 155
Hayes, Tom, 289
Hearst, William Randolph, 174
Hegan, Jim, 72
Heilmann, Harry, 30
Heinz. W. C, 48
Hemingway, Ernest, 41, 44, 50, 51, 128, 129, 130
Hemingway, Mary, 41
Henrich, Eddie (brother), 65
Henrich, Edward (father), 14, 65, 68
Henrich, Eileen, 131
Henrich, Tommy, 1, 14, 24-25, 28, 33, 37, 46, 53-54, 57, 59, 60, 61-68, 69-70, 71, 73, 101, 120-121, 126-127, 131, 134, 135, 144, 151, 156, 193, 237, 238-239, 250, 254, 256, 257-259, 268-269, 270, 272-273, 280-281, 297-298, 310
Hero with a Thousand Faces, The (Campbell), xi
Higbe, Kirby, 149
Higgins, Mike, 141, 142, 200
Hiller, Frank, 125
Hillerich, John, 182
Hillerich and Bradsby, 182
Hinrichs, Paul, 288
Hitchcock, Billy, 25, 28
Hodges, Gil, 282
Hollywood Reporter, 56
Hollywood Stars of the Pacific Coast League, 113
Holtzman, Jerome, 50
Hopp, Johnny, 297
Horn, Sam, 309
Hornsby, Rogers, 133
hot weather, 64, 205, 209, 212-216, 236
Houk, Ralph, 97, 235, 243-244, 250
Houston Astros, 310
Howard, Elston, 197, 284
Hubbell, Carl, 77-78
Hudson, Sid, 70-71
Hughson, Tex, 18, 19, 44, 58, 89-91, 98, 145, 184, 189-190, 270, 271, 274, 314
Hurley, Ed, 7
Hutchinson, Freddie, 290
Iba, Hank, 73
immigrants:
Croatian, 14
German, 14, 65
Italian, 12-14, 45-46, 81, 115-116, 198, 207-208, 248-249, 257
INS, 53
International League, 59
Irish, 198
Israel, Julius Allen, 158, 160
Israel, Mrs., 158, 159, 162
Italian immigrants, 12-14, 45-46, 81, 115-116, 198, 207-208, 248-249, 257
Jackson, Reggie, 53-54
Jackson Generals, 96, 97, 286
Jews, 198
Joe DiMaggio Day, 255
Johns Hopkins Hospital, 40
Johnson, Billy, 34, 35, 72, 135, 155, 165, 244-245, 258, 259, 268, 270
Johnson, Earl, 27, 64, 142-143, 145-146, 151-152
Johnson, Roy, 24
Jorgens, Arndt, 101
Jorgensen, Spider, 280
Kaese, Harold, 58, 142, 143, 239
Kaline, Al, 187
Kansas City Athletics, 189, 197, 233, 247, 290
Kansas City Monarchs, 284
Kaplan, Fred, 190
Keane, Clif, 45, 141, 200, 273
Keane, Johnny, 290-291
Keegan, Bob, 188-189
Keller, Charlie, 25, 37, 54, 57, 59-60, 61, 63, 74, 80-81, 101, 102-103, 121, 135-136, 155, 193, 234, 237, 259, 279, 296, 304, 310
Kelley, Mike, 142
Kelly, Raymond J., 129
Kenmore Hotel, 1, 243
Kinder, Ellis, 20, 21, 87, 91-98, 144, 145, 146, 151, 212, 213, 216, 229, 240-241, 242, 243-244, 251, 252, 255, 266, 267, 268-270, 274, 275, 286-288
Kinder, Hazel, 94, 96, 97, 288
Kinder, Ulysses Grant, 94, 95
Kitty League, 97
Koppett, Leonard, 52, 297
Kozar, Al, 252
Kramer, Jack, 20, 21, 28-29, 98, 144, 212, 217-218, 229, 239
Kress, Charlie, 238
Krichell, Paul, 197, 246-247
Kryhoski, Dick, 165
La Guardia, Fiorello, 176
LaHiff, Billy, 127
Laird, Tom, 211
Lane, Bill, 170
Lardner, Ring, 88
Larsen, Ben, 224-225
Latina, Harry, 249
Lazzeri, Tony, 53, 116
Lelyveld, Joseph, 68-70, 306
Lemon, Bob, 2, 3, 72, 76, 143
Lewis, Buddy, 252
Life, 45-46, 104, 152, 203
Lindell, John, III, 260-261
Lindell, Johnny, 58, 101, 135, 136, 150, 155, 247-248, 256, 259-261, 270, 280, 312
Little League baseball, 65
Lopat, Eddie, 54, 72-73, 74-78, 80, 85, 88, 98, 110, 122-123, 134-135, 136, 186, 194, 214, 215, 216, 232, 234, 236, 243, 264, 283-284, 311
Louis, Joe, 129
Louisville Colonels, 139
Lucky to Be a Yankee (DiMaggio), 68
Lyons, Leonard, 51, 130
Lyons, Ted, 75
McCarthy, Joe, 244
as Boston Red Sox manager, 6, 8, 9, 23-28, 58, 87-88, 89, 90-92, 98, 101-103, 106, 138, 144, 145-146, 150, 202, 203, 237, 241, 242, 258, 268, 269, 270, 272, 274, 315
as New York Yankees’ manager, 21-24, 32, 36-37, 42-43, 44, 49, 52, 101-103, 117, 123, 233, 235
press and, 25, 27
McCarver, Tim, 290-291
McCorry, Bill, 198-199
McCovey, Willie, 285
McDermott, Mickey, 150-151, 186, 202-205, 229, 289-291, 314
McDonald, Arch, 161
McDonald, Coach, 277-278
McGowan, Bill, 88, 234-235
McGraw, John, 106
Mack, Connie, 125
MacPhail, Larry, 35, 139, 160-161, 193
MacPhail, Lee, 195, 196
Maglie, Sal, 116
Mahon, Jack, 53
Mantle, Mickey, 53, 119, 155, 172, 201, 283-284, 299, 301, 302-303
Mapes, Cliff, 58, 165, 166, 250, 259, 270, 272, 296
Marciano, Rocky, 175
Maris, Roger, 42, 119
Marshall, Clarence, 23, 32-33, 54, 122, 311
Martin, Billy, 54-55
Masterson, Walt, 147, 216
Mauch, Gus, 126-127, 214
Mays, Willie, 187-188, 198-201, 285
Mead, William, 217
Meany, Tom, 50, 162
Mele, Sam, 116, 144, 147
Memphis Chicks, 97
Merman, Ethel, 56
Metkovich, George “Cat,” 10
Mexican League, 289
Meyer, Billy, 233
Milwaukee Braves, 315
Minnesota Twins, 233
Minoso, Minnie, 200
Mr. Coffee, 30
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Mize, Johnny, 239, 256, 298
Monroe, Marilyn, 124, 303
Montague, Ed, 153
Morgan, J. P., 56
Morley, John, 261-263, 313
Moses, Wally, 26-27, 236-237
Most Valuable Player Award
in 1947, 179
in 1949, 245
Murderers’ Row, 117
Murphy, Johnny, 121-122, 202-203
Musial, Stan, 10, 154
My Turn at Bat (Williams), 168
Namath, Joe, 303
National League, II, 106, 285, 305
Newark Bears, 59
Newcombe, Don, 275, 282
New Deal, 63
New England, 175-176, 228, 266
Newhouser, Hal, 5, 183, 189, 204, 205, 216
New Orleans, La., 64-65
New Orleans Pelicans, 153
New York Daily News, 37, 104, 108, 109, 222, 232
New Yorker, 129, 306
New York Giants, 31, 149, 161, 239, 246
New York Herald, 105
New York Herald Tribune, 50, 82, 108, 281
New York Mets, 310, 312
New York Mirror, 108, 109
New York Post, 50, 51, 194
New York Sun, 35, 106
New York Times, 3, 15, 32, 38, 39, 41-42, 55, 107, 129, 163, 199, 299, 306
New York Yankees, 161
agents and, 225-227
aging of, 9, 37, 236
annual profit of, 143-144
Berra as manager of, 310
blacks and, 197-199, 278-280, 284-285
fans of, 10-11, 68-70, 109-111, 158, 220, 225, 232, 263, 266
fielding of, 116-121, 138
five championships of, 284, 312
heat and, 214-216, 236
hitting of, 116-118, 121, 191-192, 258-259
injuries of, 236-239, 293-294, 296-298
McCarthy as manager of, 21-24, 32, 36-37, 42-43, 44, 49, 52, 101-103, 117, 123, 233, 235
management of, 191-197, 224-227, 295, 297-298
1948 pennant race of, 1-5, 9, 83-84, 175
1948 games of, 213-216
1949 early three-game series of, 88-89, 91, 98
1949 July games of, 164-167, 202, 204-205
1949 June games of, 148-152, 156-157
1949 Opening Day of, 58, 70-71
1949 pennant race of, 205, 213, 216, 220, 229, 238-240, 243, 244, 249-251, 253-274, 315
1949 season aftermath of, 291-303
in 1949 World Series, 275, 278-283
in 1950 World Series, 195
at old-timers’ game, 300, 303-305, 311
as one-man team, 57-60
pitching of, 19, 58, 71-80, 84-86, 117, 121-126, 173, 184, 185-186, 214-216, 230-236, 242, 254-256, 263-266, 267-268, 278-279, 283-284, 291-292
players of, 37-86, 116-133, 193-194, 244-249, 259-260, 263-266, 283-285
postbaseball careers of, 310-313
prejudice in, 196-199, 284-285
press and, 101-105, 108, 109, 118-119, 157-163, 168, 194, 232, 236-237, 239, 265-266, 294-295, 297, 312
pre- vs. post-World War II attendance of, 10-11, 224
Red Sox rivalry with, 16-17
rookies vs. veterans of, 32-37, 117-118, 134-135