1950's Sports | "New York Giants 5, Brooklyn Dodgers 4"

Newspaper article

By: Red Smith

Date: October 4, 1951

Source: Smith, Red. "New York Giants 5, Brooklyn Dodgers 4." New York Herald-Telegraph, October 4, 1951. Reprinted in Baseball Reader. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983, 379–381.

About the Author: Red Smith (1905-1982) was one of the greatest sportswriters in American history. He wrote for newspapers in Milwaukee, St. Louis, and Philadelphia before settling in New York City in 1945. Ernest Hemingway called Smith "the most important force in American sports writing." Smith won a Pulitzer Prize in journalism for "distinguished commentary," and received the J.G. Taylor Spink Award from the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976 "for meritorious contributions to baseball writing."

Introduction

In the 1950s, professional baseball was at its peak in holding the attention and admiration of the American...