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P: Sick of seeing his team tied like a tin can to the tail of the American League, the Washington Senators' President Calvin Griffith tried an old-fashioned remedy: he fired the manager. Chuck Dressen was relieved of his squad of second-raters, offered a front-office job, and replaced by Senator Coach Cookie Lavagetto. Said Cookie: "This is sickening." Said Chuck: "This is baseball."

P: After telling a Texas audience that the major leagues "must be extended from coast to coast, from north to south." Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick heard that San Francisco's Mayor George Christopher was in New York telling the Giants' and the Dodgers' presidents how nice it would be to have the Giants in San Francisco when the Dodgers move to Los Angeles. Frick hastily sent a telegram to the Dodgers' Walter O'Malley saying that all talk of transfers "is harmful to baseball." So O'Malley went back to chattering about building a new stadium in Brooklyn, and the Giants' Horace Stoneham talked wistfully of staying in New York. But Mayor Christopher went home and announced: "Anyone guessing that there would be major-league baseball here in 1958 wouldn't be far wrong."

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