Summer of '49: The Yankees and the Red Sox in Postwar America (47 page)

bats of,
181-183

blacks and,
187-188
,
201

Doerr and,
114
,
170
,
171
,
172
,
173
,
184-185

Egan and,
175

family of,
168-169
,
180

fans and,
22
,
109
,
115
,
138
,
176
,
179-180
,
306-307

fielding of,
183
,
259
,
268

fishing of,
30
,
114
,
179
,
307-308
,
309

habits of,
22
,
169-170
,
181
,
183-184

hitting of,
17
,
22
,
25
,
30
,
42
,
54
,
138
,
151
,
164
,
167-168
,
170-174
,
178
,
181-184
,
185-186
,
188-189
,
206-207
,
212-213
,
216
,
230
,
250
,
254-255
,
256
,
267
,
268
,
270
,
306-307
,
308-310

hot weather and,
205
,
212-213

Joe DiMaggio vs.,
45
,
109
,
168
,
172
,
179-180
,
188

leadership of,
29-30
,
138
,
167

McCarthy and,
22
,
25
,
28

McDermott and,
291

memoir of,
168

as MVP,
179
,
245

in 1946 season,
10

in 1948 pennant race,
2
,
3
,
4
,
9

1949 pennant race remembered by,
273
,
315

pitchers and,
18-19
,
20-21
,
76
,
78
,
94
,
164
,
171
,
183-184
,
187
,
188-189
,
216
,
251
,
252
,
267

postbaseball life of,
306-310

press and,
22
,
48
,
104
,
167-168
,
174-180
,
218-219
,
273

retirement and,
306-310

salary of,
178

statistics of,
22
,
42
,
54
,
167-168
,
172

Stephens and,
178

talents of,
180-181

teammates and,
137
,
138
,
181
,
184-188
,
218-219
,
307
,
309-310

temperament of,
171-172
,
173-174
,
307-308

veteran players and,
170
,
171-172

vices of,
181

Yawkey and,
143

Wilson, Hack,
22

WNBC,
221

women, men’s clubs and,
130-131

Woodall, Larry,
91
,
200

Woodling, Gene,
43
,
58
,
71
,
98
,
135
,
151
,
191-192
,
256
,
278
,
284
,
296
,
298
,
311
,
312

World Series,
263
,
273

in 1923,
31-32

in 1946,
106
,
273

in 1947,
15
,
44
,
83
,
124
,
220-221

in 1948,
15

in 1949,
222-223
,
275
,
278-283
,
293

in 1950,
195
,
297

in 1963,
312

in 1967,
288

in 1975,
141

salaries in,
18
,
134
,
272
,
293

Yankees in,
278-284
,
296
,
305
,
312

World War II,
10
,
17
,
32
,
46
,
63
,
154
,
221

WPIX,
222
,
224

Wright, Ed,
287

Wright, Tom,
269

W2XWV,
221

Wynn, Early,
72
,
145

Yale University,
116
,
305

Yankee Stadium,
11
,
25
,
70
,
83
,
156
,
158
,
161
,
164-165
,
173
,
202
,
222
,
225
,
236
,
240
,
248
,
255
,
261-263
,
266
,
278

Yawkey, Tom,
17
,
20
,
91
,
136
,
139-144
,
187
,
204
,
254
,
289
,
305
,
313-314

Yogiisms,
82-83
,
128
,
310

York, Rudy,
99-100
,
123

Young, Dick,
109
,
312

Zarilla, Al “Zeke,”
116
,
144
,
164
,
165
,
240
,
252
,
256
,
271
,
272
,
315

Zuber, Bill,
156

“April 14—Yankee Outfield Hopefuls: Charlie Keller, Gene Woodling, Johnny Lindell, and [Hank] Bauer, left to right, are fighting for places in the 1949 outfield of the New York Yankees,” notes the Associated Press caption. (
AP/WIDE WORLD PHOTOS
)

Left to right: Charlie Keller, Joe DiMaggio, and Tom Henrich, as pictured in 1949. (
AP/WIDE WORLD PHOTOS
)

Allie Reynolds (
NATIONAL BASEBALL LIBRARY, COOFERSTOWN, N.Y.)

Vic Raschi
(NATIONAL BASEBALL LIBRARY, COOFERSTOWN, N.Y.)

Tommy Byrne
(GEORGE BRACE PHOTOS)

Yogi Berra
(NATIONAL BASEBALL LIBRARY, COOFERSTOWN, N.Y.)