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Vintage Dodgers Newsletter - Dodgers Line Drives - May 1951, Vol. 10, #12

I like the title of this newsletter. It states in bold letters, "Experts Predict Pennant for Dodgers", and it highlights the opinions of several members of the traveling press corps. As we know know, unfortunately, the Dodgers fell short of that goal. Their season ended when Bobby Thompson walloped an walk-off homer off of Ralph Branca during a final three-game series to decide the pennant.

As for the rest of the newsletter (click on any pic to embiggen), it features the following:

  • Four Dodger youngsters are noted as potentially being high-impact players for the club.