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Frank WakefieldSad news...
Podres dancing after the 1955 series
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imBbnf4nHKk"
And 1955 WS highlights
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3JkjHxJp_w&NR=1"
Half a dozen years ago he kindly signed a 3x5 I mailed him. He knew his pitching, Schilling wasn't alone in thinking Podres knew baseball. In 1962, Sept 30th, last game of the season, the Dodgers in a fierce pennant race with the Giants, it was Johnny Podres that got the start that final day against the Cardinals. Podres yielded only one run, but his Dodgers couldn't score at all for him, forcing the playoff with the Giants, the 4th National League playoff in history...
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