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Dinah Shore, Art Linkletter, Sinatra on Card—Campyand Garagiola in SpotlightBy RALPH KAYLOS ANGELES, Calif.Art Linkletter, Joe Garagiola and Roy Campanella stole the show at the Dodger dinner that featured Entertainers Dinah Shore and Frank Sinatra in the International Room of the Beverly Hilton Hotel, April 13. The fast-moving program was sponsored by the Los Angeles baseball writers.Campy, now a Dodger coach after being paralyzed in an automobile accident early last year, provided one of the few serious notes as he spoke, tearfully at first “I’ve come a long way,” said Campy. “Baseball has done a lot for me. I never did choke up like this on the ball field. I don’t want you to pity me. You learn on the sporting held how to take it I was crying at first. I don’t think I’d be a man if I didn’t “Baseball has been a part of me since I was 15,” the lovable ex-catcher continued from his wheelchair at the head table before 1,400 guests on the eve of the Dodgers’ home opener. “I didn't get cheated a bit but I thought that I could help out on the field a couple more years. I’m thankful that as a player I didn’t do anything to make people think wrong of me.”Linkletter Tosses Quips During the program, Linkleuer, as emcee, .twitted the Dodgers on their daffy past by saying: “After all. .who fits the Dodger dinner better than a man who has been proving ’People Are Funny’ all these years?”The TV great continued his quipping: “The Dodgers had a tremendous season—they beat the Phillies. The big question is ‘Can they do.it again?’ “Another thing wrong with the ’58 Dodgers was that several of their1,400 Fans at Dinner SeeSian, Pee Wee Get AwardsLOS ANGELES, Calif. — On theeve of the second season of major league ball here, a capacity crowd of 2,400 fans turned out for the second annual Dodger Dinner. The affair was sponsored by the Los Angeles chapter of the Baseball Writers’ Association, April 13, in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel.It was a big league affair all the way, with the program featuring Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, Red Norvo and his sextet, Joe Garagiola and that masterful master of ceremonies, Art Linkletter.Players and officials of both the Dodgers and Cardinals were honored guests, as was Hall of Fame’s Wahoo Sam Crawford.Special awrards were given Stan Musial and Pee Wee Reese, and the L. A. chapter presented its annual awards to Dodger players, but the personality that dominated the entire affair was heroic Roy Campanella.Flown here from New York to attend the banquet and participate in the opening ceremonies at the Coliseum the next night, Campanella brought tears to all eyes with a simple but moving talk.Those who received awards included:Musial, for meritorious contributions to baseball.Reese, for typifying Dodger traditions. Given in the name of the late Charles (The Brow) DiGiovan-na. Dodger clubhouse boy.Pitcher Stan Williams, best rookie of 1958.Catcher Johnny Roseboro, best sophomore of 1958.Outfielder Carl FuriDo, Dodger player of 1958.City Councihvoman Rosalind Wyman, for her efforts in helping to establish the former Brooklyn team in Los Angeles.Although he brought the Cardinals tc town with an C-3 record, Skipper Solly Hemus warned that his club is no bunch * of patsies. “No team in the league is going to run the Cardinals off the field,” he said.Among the guests were -Mayor Norris Pout son. Chairman Frank G. Bonelli of the County Board of Supervisors, Vice-President B u z z i e Bavasi of. the Dodgers and General Manager Bing Devine of the Cardinals. FRANK FINCH.
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St Louis Sporting News
St Louis, Missouri, US
Wed, Apr 22, 1959
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