What's My Line? - Sal Maglie & Duke Snider; Jack Carter [panel] (Sep 5, 1954)

MYSTERY GUESTS: Sal Maglie & Duke Snider
PANEL: Dorothy Kilgallen, Jack Carter, Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf
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[@jacquelinebell6201]

I miss Steve Allen already lol. He was funny without having to try hard.

[@63bcollier]

Love this show class, class, class!

[@maggiejohnson5891]

All for show. Seriously.

[@tumarbongrox6074]

This was when Dorothy Kilgallen was cheating on her husband

[@woodykelleher9253]

One of the neatest celebrity mystery guests ever.

[@georgemartin1436]

Dorothy was so gosh-darn smart.

[@robertjean5782]

Dorothy was a investigative reporter for years 😊

[@georgemartin1436]

@@robertjean5782 Yes...some say it was the root of her untimely and bizarre passing...

[@TheBraveIntrovert]

Bennet and Arlene know their sport.

[@lynnedonaldson4010]

So cool to have players from opposing teams be so respectful of one another. I can’t see it happening today.

[@smadaf]

They ought to be. You can't play a competitive sport without an opponent or two to play against. Why not be kind the people who make it possible for you to have someone to try to beat?

[@keithhyttinen8275]

Why not.? The Fuhrer would disapprove?

[@megancrager4397]

@@smadaf because it's about profit now instead of sportsmanship

[@aprilove2005]

Back in the earlier fifties before TV had conquered radio there was still a lot of programming on radio. Dorothy Kilgallen and her husband Dick Kollmar had an early morning talk radio show called Breakfast with Dorothy and Dick. They discussed all things New York City especially the theater. My mother loved the show, my father hated it. Even as a schoolgirl I enjoyed listening to Dorothy and Dick. I wish I could hear these shows today.

[@shirleyrombough8173]

Duke Snyder? Holy cow. He was a legend.

[@WhatsMyLine]

Today's KZbin Rerun for 3/14/16: For all intents and purposes, the Steve Allen era is over, as he was replaced by guest panelists this week and the next (apparently he was already off preparing for the Tonight Show, which wouldn't debut until the end of the month). Steve returned once more for the special color broadcast of Sept. 19, 1954, but that show is very unfortunately lost. But don't despair, fans of Steve-- we'll be seeing plenty more of Steve Allen in his many guest appearances through the course of the rest of the series! ----------------------------- Join our Facebook group for WML-- great discussions, photos, etc, and great people! facebook.com/groups/728471287199862/ Please click here to subscribe to the WML channel if you haven't already-- you'll find the complete CBS series already posted, and you'll be able to follow along the discussions on the weekday "rerun" videos: kzbin.info/door/hPE75Fvvl1HmdAsO7Nzb8w

[@dietpepsivanilla3095]

The Duke of Flatbush and The Barber. Love it.

[@richarddarlington1139]

This was back in the days when baseball really was the national pastime!

[@Lava1964]

It still should be. There's never been a better game.

[@bluecamus5162]

It's dying! Advertising on major-league uniforms has just been approved. The DH is now used in the NL too. 3-batter minimum on relievers. Announcers don't travel with the team but announce from an empty home park. Bah humbug! Next will be restrictions on shifts and time limits on pitchers. Combine that with the steroid scandal and juiced balls and it's not my father's game anymore, nor mine.

[@tryingtobefairandobjective3480]

And there use to be a ballpark, right here.

[@Mpshfromlowell64]

These were also the days when New York teams dominated baseball…..

[@rmelin13231]

@@bluecamus5162I am 100% with you on all counts. For over 60 years I was a die-hard baseball fan. I can't even watch today's game. It makes me very sad.

[@leannsherman6723]

That Dorothy Kilgallen was smart!

[@robertjean5782]

Dorothy was a investigative reporter for years 😊

[@loissimmons6558]

As a clutch hitter, in addition to his home run feats in the World Series, Snider was a fine all around hitter in the Series. He struggled in his first four games in 1949, going just 1 for 16 with 5 strikeouts (although he still played excellent defense, robbing Joe DiMaggio of extra base hits twice). But he went 2 for 5 with a double in the final game of that series and then posted batting averages of .345, .320, .320 and .304 with 24 RBI's in his remaining four World Series as a full-time starter for the Dodgers, all against the Yankees. In 1949 against the Phillies, Snider's single drove in the winning run in the top of the 10th inning of final game of the season to clinch the pennant for the Dodgers. Had they lost with the Cardinals beating the Cubs, there would have been another tie between the two clubs at the end of the season, just like there was in 1946. The next year against the Phillies on the last day of the season again, it was almost the same situation: bottom of the ninth, tie game, pennant on the line, go ahead run at second base (in this case, the winning run) and Snider batting. Again, he hit a single to center, but Phillies center fielder Richie Ashburn had seen the pickoff sign that pitcher Robin Roberts missed so he was charging toward the infield when the ball was hit ... right at him. And even though Ashburn had a weak arm, he threw out Cal Abrams at home. Instead of Snider being a hero, the Dodgers failed to score and the Phillies clinched the pennant in the top of the 10th. But Snider had come through in the clutch two years in a row. In 1951, Snider had slumped during the month of September and saw his batting average fall from .293 to .272. But on the final day of the regular season, Snider went 3 for 7 in a 14 inning game that the Dodgers won to stay tied with the Giants and force a playoff. In that playoff, Snider continued to come through at the plate again, going 5 for 11. In the decisive thrird game, his first inning walk helped build the Dodgers first run and in the eighth when the Dodgers rallied for three runs to take a 4-1 lead, Snider had a key single in the midst of that rally when he scored the second of three runs. But all he could do was watch helplessly in the 9th inning when he was the on deck hitter when the third out was made in the top of the inning and no balls were hit in his direction in the disastrous bottom half. The NL pennant race did not come down to the final day in 1952-55, but in 1956, it happened again. With the Dodgers trailing Milwaukee by a half game coming into the final weekend of the regular season, Snider went 3 for 6 with two doubles as the Dodgers swept the Pirates in a double header to take a 1 game lead over the losing Braves. On the final day of the regular season, Snider hit 2 home runs and drove in 4 of the Dodgers 8 runs in their 8-6 victory that put them in the World Series for the 4th time in 5 years, all during Snider's peak years of his career. In 1959, Snider was no longer playing every day. Once again, the season came down to the final day. The Dodgers won easily as Snider only played part of the game. But the Braves also won to forge another tie for the pennant. Snider didn't play in the first playoff game which the Dodgers won in Milwaukee. But he started in center field when the two teams played the next day in Los Angeles. The Braves jumped out to an early lead and led 5-2 going into the bottom of the ninth. Snider had a key single in the 3 run rally that sent the game into extra innings. A pinch runner after the single took him out of the game so he wasn't there when the Dodgers won the game and the pennant. In his last year for the Dodgers in 1962, the Dodgers once again saw the Giants come from behind in a pennant race and forge a tie at the end of the regular season. Snider was only a substitute player by this time. From June 3 (when he started in right field) to August 5, even though he was hitting over .300, he only pinch hit, not getting any playing time in the field at all. His swing got rusty and his batting average dropped to .250 the next time he started on August 19. The Dodgers stopped hitting (except for one game when they scored 13 runs) and lost 10 out of 13 games, including 2 out of 3 to the expansion Houston Colt 45's to finish the regular season. Even though Snider got a rare start on 9/23 and tried to get things going with a 3 for 5 day at the plate, the Dodgers lost to the Cardinals 12-2. The Dodgers were shutout in their last two regular season games and the first playoff game in San Francisco with Snider on the bench. In Game 2, Manager Walt Alston turned one more time to his veteran outfielder, starting him in left field. The Giants nicked Don Drysdale for a run in the second inning. And things were looking bleak in the top of the 6th inning with the Dodgers looking like they were headed for their fourth straight shutout to end the season on a dismal note and the Giants erupted for 4 more runs. But after a lead off walk in the bottom of the inning, Snider triggered the comeback that woke the Dodger bats with a double. When the dust settled, the Dodgers scored 7 runs that inning and tied the playoffs at 1 game apiece. Snider had earned one more start in the deciding game and he justified it, going 2 for 3, doubling and scoring the Dodgers first run and singling and scoring behind Tommy Davis's home run that gave the Dodgers the lead for the first time in the game. But Snider had been taken out of the game by the time that once again the Dodgers would blow the deciding game of an NL playoff to the Giants. It would be his last game for the Dodgers. He was a shell of his former self, albeit with more playing time (but none of it in clutch situations for the Mets in 1963 and then mostly riding the bench for the Giants in his final season.

[@GGE47]

HI Lois, The 1959 tie between the Braves and Dodgers was when I first got interested in Major League baseball. There was one on television and I heard the next game on the radio to win National League pennant. They beat the Chicago White Sox in six games to win the '59 World Series. I live in Richmond,Va. AAA farm club of the New York Yankees back then. I learned the history of the game and I heard Pee Wee Reese say the Bobby Thompson 3 run homerun in the bottom of the 9th and a run already in at the Polo Grounds was his worse moment in baseball. I used to know somebody from Brooklyn who skipped school to see that game. He wished he hadn't. The Yankees beat the Giants in the World Series, but the drama and excitement of the '51 pennant race overshadowed that. I do remember the similarity between 1951 and the 1962 Dodgers- Giants pennant race and the three game playoff to decide it. they split the first two and in game 3 the Dodgers had a 4-2 lead going into the top of the 9th. It wasn't one big swing of the bat like 1951, but the Giants did score 4 runs and held the Dodgers in the bottom of the 9th to win the game 6-4 and the '62 National League pennant. The Yankees did beat the Giants again, but with runners on 2nd an 3rd and two out in the bottom of the 9th of game 7 pitcher Ralph Terry chose to pitch to Willy McCovey than walk him intentionally and pitch to the next hitter in a 1-0 game. Willy Mays had just doubled to put runners on 2nd and 3rd. McCovey hit a scorching line drive that I thought was a hit and two runs would score and the Giants would win the game and World Series. As the camera followed the ball I saw Bobby Richardson step over and catch the ball and the Yankees won. Have a good evening.

[@loissimmons6558]

In rooting for Snider, I was not only rooting for a player with matinee idol looks, I was rooting for one of the great stars of the game. From 1952-57, the argument in the NYC area was who was the best center fielder in NY (and in all baseball for that matter): Willie, Mickey or the Duke. Many baseball observers at the time would vote for the Duke. He was truly a five tool player. - He could hit for average: 7 seasons as a regular hitting over .300 with a career high of .341 in this 1954 season and a .300 career average playing for the Dodgers in 16 of his 18 seasons. - He could hit for power: No one had more home runs or RBI's in the major leagues during the 1950's than Duke Snider. He was the second NL player to have 40 or more home runs in five consecutive seasons. He still holds Dodger franchise records for home runs (389), runs batted in (1271) and extra base hits (814). He is the only player to hit four home runs in a single World Series twice. He led the National League in home runs in 1956 and in RBI's in 1955 (one of six times with 100 or more in a season. He also led in slugging average twice (1953 and 1956), runs scored three times (1953 to 1955) and in hits (1950). He missed a four home run regular season game by a foot in 1950. Having three homers in his first three at bats, with his next at bat he hit a rising line drive that hit the right field screen at Ebbets Field a foot from the top (38 feet high). - He could run. He was, along with Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese, a legitimate base stealing threat on the team at the height of his career until he started having knee problems. Playing on a high-scoring, power-hitting team for most of his career, during an era when the stolen base was rarely employed, Snider's stolen base totals were limited. But today he would be a top base stealer the way the game has been played since the height of his career. And he covered a lot of ground patrolling center field. - He could field. This is where knowledgeable baseball men of the time noted Snider's superiority. While his speed helped him cover plenty of ground, the primary reason he was a premier center fielder was that he was among the best ever at picking up and reading a ball coming off the bat. With Mays, it was not uncommon to follow the flight of the ball towards center and then see Mays take his first step towards the ball. That required him to use his great speed to outrun his "mistakes" and make some of his catches more difficult looking than they needed to be. You rarely saw Snider take that first step. By the time your eyes left the batter to follow the ball to the outfield, the Duke was already on the move for another routine catch. He also had tremendous leaping ability (Branch Rickey nicknamed him "Steel Springs"). An extremely graceful outfielder, no one played a fence better than Snider. Yet he never lost a battle to an outfield wall the way his Dodger predecessor, Pete Reiser did. He was even known for leaping with certain outfield fences, digging his spikes into the fence to not only avoid a collision but hang in the air a split second longer to reach up and pull down what otherwise would have been an extra base hit, possibly a home run. Perhaps his greatest catch in a clutch situation came in Connie Mack Stadium in 1954 in the bottom of the 12th inning with two outs, two on and the Dodgers clinging to a one run lead. Willie Jones scorched a line drive into left-center. Snider raced to his right, climbed the wall, dug his spikes in and hung there while he reached up as far as he could stretch and hauled it in before falling to the ground and holding on to the ball. - He could throw. He had a powerful, accurate arm. He would often win challenges as to how far he could throw a baseball and he was known for his long passes as a HS QB. He had at least 10 assists in six of his seasons. With his graceful fielding and his accurate throws, he led NL center fielders in fielding percentage three times. Unfortunately for him, the Gold Glove award was not instituted until near the end of his career. In addition, Duke was both consistent and a very good clutch hitter. For consistency, his monthly batting averages range from .282 (April) to .309 (August), not counting the .405 mark he posted in limited regular season play in October.

[@robertjean5782]

Whew😊

[@canuckster24]

Yeah they put two up there from two different teams cause they knew Bennett Cerf would probably figure it out quickly if it was only one.

[@bgdavenport]

Didn't slow him down too much! The guy had an encyclopedic memory!

[@kasperjoonatan6014]

It was in the 80's when I first read the word Rockettes and now 35 years later I finally see and hear one talking. It was in Catcher in the rye btw., and I fell in love with that girl in the short skating skirt in the Rockefeller plaza 😊

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

I've never seen the younger Jack Carter in anything else. I remember him in the 1970s as an older man.

[@rmelin13231]

Jack did pretty well as a guest panelist, I thought.

[@dutchtea8354]

Mr. Vellek was the 4th guest who had something to do with flea powder (2 makers, 2 sellers). Sal & Duke were the 9th MG duo/group (two heads), and the 6th time MLB players were MG. During the introductions, Dorothy states that Jack Carter was once a mystery guest, yet, he isn’t listed as such in any website lists.

[@rmelin13231]

Love these tidbits! Wish you had kept them up. Thanks!

[@spongevee1]

I live seeing the old time ball players!

[@loissimmons6558]

As a huge baseball fan and Dodger fan, this episode was one I was anxious to get to. I knew the lack of specific connection between the two players would make it more difficult for the panel, although I was surprised it took them a while to realize they were hearing two different voices. Sal Maglie was 37 years old when this episode aired. He didn't have a long major league career. He struggled in the minor leagues for years. A number of times along the way, it looked like his baseball career was over. He got a big chance when, in his mid-20's, he flunked the physical for induction into the military because of sinus issues. As more and more players were being drafted, the capable ones left behind had a fast track to move up the ladder. But he pitched so poorly for the Giants top farm team that he quit baseball at the end of the season and worked in a defense plant for two years. With all the teams desperate for warm bodies, the Giants persuaded Maglie to return to them for the 1945 season. He pitched very well when he was called up to the Giants in August. Maglie thought he had an excellent chance to stick in the major leagues even with the avalanche of players who were returning after the end o WWII. But he hit another roadblock en route to major league stardom. The Giants pitching coach, Dolf Luque, persuaded Maglie to pitch winter ball for him in Cuba. When he felt like Giants manager Mel Ott was not giving him a fair chance in Spring Training in 1946, he went with Luque to the Mexican League whose new backers (the Pasquel brothers) had offered large sums to persuade a handful of major league players, who were facing crowded rosters anyway, to jump to this rival league, breaking their contracts with their current clubs. To discourage further jumpers, any of the players who already had jumped were banned from the existing Organized Baseball structure for five years. Maglie pitched in the upstart league for two seasons. During that time, Luque molded the mild-mannered Maglie into a pitcher in his own image: tough and always ready to back opposing batters away from the plate, keeping them from getting too comfortable at the plate. Back in his native Niagara Falls, Maglie took some of his Mexican League moolah and purchased a gas station. He also did some barnstorming with other Mexican League jumpers looking for a chance to play, but that lost money. Then he went to Canada to pitch in the independent Provincial League which was outside the perview of Organized Baseball. His outstanding 1949 season in Canada coupled with the major leagues lifting their ban a year early (to settle a lawsuit by another jumper, Danny Gardella), Maglie found himself back with the Giants in 1950. By now, Leo Durocher was the Giants manager and Maglie was exactly the kind of pitcher Leo liked. After a slow start, Maglie found the groove that would make him one of the best pitchers in baseball for a good part of eight seasons. He was pitching well in 1955, but at age 38 with the Dodgers running away with the NL pennant and the Giants struggling, he was sold to the Cleveland Indians at the end of July in their quest for another pennant. And there he languished for the rest of the 1955 season and the beginning of the 1956 season. Indians manager Al Lopez is highly regarded for his skills piloting a team. But he was also known for making it clear if he was not in favor of a player being acquired by his team and giving that player little opportunity unless absolutely necessary. Besides, Lopez already had one of the best pitching staffs in baseball, with three 20-game winners (future Hall of Famers Early Wynn and Bob Lemon and fireballer Herb Score) a solid fourth starter in Mike Garcia, a solid bullpen in Don Mossi, Ray Narleski and Cal McLish, and veterans Bob Feller and Art Houtteman available for an occasional spot start. So when the Dodgers needed pitching early in 1956, they arranged with Lopez to have Maglie start against them in an exhibition game between the two clubs. The Dodgers liked what they saw and soon Brooklyn fans were rubbing their eyes in disbelief. The hated Maglie was now a Dodger, acquired for the bargain price of $100. Although Dodger fans never totally warmed to Sal, he made the difference for the Dodgers to win a tight pennant race that went down to the last day of the regular season over Milwaukee and CIncinnati. Two years and twenty days after this episode aired, in his next to last start of the regular season, Maglie warmed some 15,204 chilly Dodger fans by pitching a no-hitter against the Philadelphia Phillies that evening. Four days later in the first game of a double header, Maglie led a sweep of the Pirates with a 6-2 victory. With the Braves losing to St. Louis in 12 innings, the Dodgers were finally in first place with one game to play. Although the Braves won the next day, the Dodgers beat the Pirates again to clinch the pennant. Maglie was tabbed to start Game 1 of the 1956 Series at Ebbets Field and he beat the Yankees, once again with a 6-2 score. In Game 5, he pitched one of the best games of his career, with perfect innings in 6 out of the 8 he pitched and getting nicked for a run in each of the other two innings. Unfortunately his mound opponent, Don Larsen, was perfect in all 9 innings. On September 1, 1957 Maglie would be sold to the Yankees by the Dodgers, making him the last player to play for all three of those New York teams. Six days later on a Saturday afternoon, I saw my first major league baseball game in person at the Polo Grounds. It was the next to last Dodger-Giant game played in NYC. To my delight, the Dodgers won 5-4 and the hero was Duke Snider, my favorite player (no coincidence that I also thought he was the handsomest player). The Dodgers fell behind 3-0 in the second inning. But after getting a run back in the top of the fifth on a Carl Furillo home run, I went into seventh heaven. I was rooting as hard as I could for the Duke to hit a home run every time at the plate. In the sixth inning, he did just that with two men aboard to give the Dodgers a lead they wouldn't relinquish despite a Willie Mays home run to lead off the bottom of the ninth. The only thing that would have made it better was if my dad would have taken me to a game at Ebbets Field as he had twice for my big brother. But in a few weeks, the last major league game was played at that storied ballpark.

[@georgecoufos31]

Lois, thank you for this and all of the great insights you add here! You're truly a vast wealth of information!

[@robertjean5782]

Obviously you know more about baseball, then the average guy. What a memory 😊

[@richardpoplis6777]

It's amazing how good the panel is on sports stars all the panel loved by sports

[@Lava1964]

Dorothy didn't know much about sports.

[@trentrez6643]

They really threw them a curveball having 2 celebrities at once

[@44032]

Sal was known as "The Barber" because his pitches came dangerously close to batter's heads - including to Duke Sniders! I wonder what that special chair they were sitting in looked like. They seem close together, yet comfortable.

[@loissimmons6558]

That is one of two explanations for Sal's nickname. The other one is that Sal looked like "the barber in the third chair". Both explanations are plausible, especially when it is known that Maglie was a mild-mannered, friendly sort off the field and used to pitch that way. He only learned to brush back hitters off the plate when a pitching coach taught him to do it midway through his career and he realized it would be the difference between success or failure for him.

[@gugurupurasudaikirai7620]

I've never seen John let the panel have it like he did on them failing to get the first contestant's line. I was kind of surprised they didn't get it because they were close for a while

[@bluecamus5162]

I can't believe not one panelist asked her if she was a dancer!

[@robertjean5782]

Goes to show the panelists weren't informed of what the line was!😊

[@joedebaun4547]

I was 6 days old during this taping!

[@rafaela.4988]

Duke Snider,of the top brooklynn dodgers of and Sal Maglie i know him a little

[@beadyeyedbrat]

Jack Carter was not cut out to be on the panel.

[@Beson-SE]

I didn't hear what Bennett said to the first contestant. Something about her shoes I think. Dorothy and Jack peeked simultaneously down on them. :) 3:00

[@henrywyche]

Something about toenails

[@Beson-SE]

+Henry Robinson You're correct, I can hear it know. :)

[@joncheskin]

Baseball players have no chance with Bennett on the panel.

[@user-od1ob4gg9b]

This was a few days before I was born

[@chrism.2711]

Bennett was awesome on the mystery guests

[@ToddSF]

Yup. Here he had to know who was on both baseball teams and what positions they played. And he got both of them!

[@nanaberry4120]

Chris M. I

[@terryniblett9329]

He was a cheater and already knew who the MG was!!

[@robertjean5782]

​@@terryniblett9329totally disagree 😊

[@christinelow2643]

Sal Maglie was THE sexiest looking ball player!

[@preppysocks209]

In "Ball Four," Jim Bouton makes clear that he thinks Sal Maglie was an incompetent coach, not recognizing the value of Bouton's knuckleball.

[@Beson-SE]

When Dorothy introduced Jack Carter, she said that he once was a mystery guest. When was this? I can't find anything about him.

[@WhatsMyLine]

Johan Bengtsson She was probably thinking of the show where Carter was a guest panelist and either misspoke or misremembered him as mystery guest. This is the show with Jack Carter on the panel: What's My Line? - Sal Maglie & Duke Snider; Jack Carter [panel] (Sep 5, 1954)

[@Beson-SE]

What's My Line? You posted the exact same show! :)

[@WhatsMyLine]

Johan Bengtsson Oops!!! Well, in that case, I think she was just mistaken entirely. This is the only record we have of Jack Carter appearing on WML, unless there's a mistake in the log info for the missing shows.

[@jvcomedy]

I found a web site that had all mystery guests listed and Jack Carter was not one of them prior to this show so obviously Dorothy is mistaken and it's strange Jack Carter didn't say anything about it although maybe it thought it inappropriate to correct her. I did find that he was a mystery guest at some point in time on the series, but it would appear it was the color version and not the original B&W series. I think it might have been 1968. Nonetheless Dorothy was in error.

[@winterlandboy]

Sal Maglie looked like Al Pacino...

[@anntaylor2039]

Why were Dorothy's shoulders up and down as she introduced Jack?

[@chrisgast]

Sal Maglie looks a bit like Aaron Rodgers.

[@juanettebutts9782]

The continuation of Arlene's hair lightening. The front of her hair seems much lighter than the sides. Could be my antique phone is distorting the colors, though.

[@stanochocki8984]

No, those 'High-lightings' were a Popular off-shoot of the then, En Vogue 'Italian Style' imitating the New Wave Italian actresses of the Era.....

[@drumbum3.142]

⚾️🤝⚾️ YUP ..

[@shirleyrombough8173]

Flea powder in their hair? Or on another part of the body? Ye gods. I guess I really don't know flea powder at all.

[@aaronsakulich4889]

Bennet is so much less insufferable when he's not trying to give Daly a hard time. A shame it happened so rarely!

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

ROCKETTE DANCER AT RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL MAKES FLEA POWDER

[@robertjean5782]

Thank you for keeping track😊

[@madeleine9907]

Jack Carter trying to be funny is annoying...

[@peternagy-im4be]

Another dummy panellist

[@tomitstube]

i always thought duke snyder was a big guy with all his power statistics, baseball reference says he was 6 feet 179 lbs, not very big, sal maglie would also pitch for the dodgers, both times losing to the yankees, both times a new york world series, then within 2 years new york would lose both the dodgers and giants to california... quite a shift in regional importance during the 1950's from new york to california

[@44032]

6-0 179 is not a small man and in those days wasn't even a small baseball player. Willie Mays was 5-10 175 and Mickey Mantle 5-11 195. Mickey was closer to 160 when he came up and many of the weights given on places like baseball reference.com are their weights as rookies.

[@richarddarlington1139]

Ballplayers used to be built like, well, ballplayers, not defensive linemen!

[@loissimmons6558]

+tomitstube +Steven Chappell Retrosheet also lists Snider at 6' 179 lbs. But MLB lists him at 190 lbs., which was probably his weight by the time that this episode aired, two weeks before Duke's 28th birthday. Maglie indeed would be pitching for the Dodgers in 1956 and 1957. He started two games for the Dodgers in the 1956 Series. He won Game 1, 6-2 with a complete game and he lost Game 5 despite a masterful pitching effort by him. Unfortunately for him, Don Larsen pitched a perfect game for the Yankees that day (after the Dodgers knocked him out of Game 2 with a barrage of runs). The Dodgers finished third in 1957, and by the end of that season, Maglie was pitching for the Yankees. They acquired him on September 1 and he wasn't eligible for the World Series that the Yankees played against and lost to Milwaukee. The other time Maglie pitched against the Yankees in the World Series was in 1951 when he started in Game 4, pitched poorly and was the losing pitcher.

[@zekezacker9449]

Arlene's whining after the first guest might lead one to wonder if Arlene listens to other people's questions and comments.

[@donnawoodford6641]

I'm kind tired of her gripes while she smiles, expecting things should be changed for her.

[@TheBigMclargehuge]

Jack Carter isn't funny.

[@ToddSF]

And he isn't much good as a panelist, either. I thought he'd never stop hemming and hawing when it came to figuring out what the second contestant had to do with flea powder. "Do you uh, er, um, do you er, uh, um . . . ." Ye gods, man, ask a question already.or if you're really stuck, pass to Arlene.

[@Bambi_Harris_Author]

Agreed, painful to watch, too much procrastination

[@terryniblett9329]

Jack Carter IS AN IDIOT!!!

[@bob58jf]

For me, the most irritating panelist was Fred Allen.