The Dodgers were still easing the winter kinks from their muscles at Miami when Manager Charley Dressen called them in for a talk. Dressen wanted them to stop moping about last season, especially those horrible ten weeks when they blew a 13½-game lead to the Giants, and then lost the pennant by a home run. "Forget it," said Dressen. "We have nothing to be ashamed of. It was nobody's fault in particular and it can't happen again."
On paper, last year's team was fine. Dressen had a fast, rifle-armed outfield (Duke Snider, Andy Pafko, Carl Furillo) which walloped 75 home runs, and...
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