home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- MILESTONES, Page 79
-
-
-
- DIED. Leo Durocher, 86, combative baseball manager who
- piloted two clubs into three World Series and whose hard-boiled
- comment about a rival team ("Nice guys. Finish last.") captured
- the unforgiving side of American sports; in Palm Springs, Calif.
- After a career as a sure-handed shortstop, Durocher became
- manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1939 and led them to a
- pennant in 1941. Baseball Commissioner Happy Chandler suspended
- him for the 1947 season because of incidents the commissioner
- construed as "detrimental to baseball." The following summer
- Durocher left the Dodgers to manage the New York Giants, and
- guided them to a pennant in 1951 and a World Series crown in
- 1954. Durocher's enduring image will be his fierce nose-to-nose
- jousts with umpires.
-
-
-
-
-
-