7/05/2007

Baseball History -- July 5

Complete entry for July 5 is at BaseballLibrary.com HERE.

Highlighted entry:
1951
At Ebbets Field‚ Gil Hodges hits his 27th HR of the year to lead the Dodgers to a 8-4 win over the Giants. Andy Pafko also homers‚ off Larry Jansen. Don Newcombe notches his 12th win‚ giving up 7 hits. After sweeping the Giants in the 3-game series‚ Dodger manager Chuck Dressen declares‚ "We knocked 'em out. They won't bother us anymore." The Dodgers now lead the Giants by 7 1/2 games.

Yep. Never gonna hear from them again.

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