Daffiness, on an afternoon when they had two base runners thrown out at the plate on the same base hit (!), clearly did not die with the Dodgers when they moved to Los Angeles from Brooklyn and left behind Babe Herman, who once inspired John Lardner to write after three Dodgers wound up occupying the same base, ... (Full article: 1118 words)

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