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How the Dodgers conquered the sky is the subject of a pull-up-a-chair feature by Brent Shyer at Walteromalley.com. Here's an excerpt from early in the piece.
... That same year, the Dodgers decided to find a larger airplane and this time a DC-3 was selected. How they acquired that plane may be part legend or the truth, as Holman explains.
"They were looking for something that Branch Rickey could have a bed in," said Holman. "About that time, the airlines were beginning to get rid of their DC-3s and move up to a bigger airplane. Eastern (Air Lines) had 60 DC-3s. My Dad (who was Eastern's representative at Vero Beach) said, 'Let's not buy one. I think I can probably just win one in a crap game.' Down in Miami, he was with (Eastern President) Eddie Rickenbacker. A lot of stuff went on in Miami that I wasn't party to. The word was that they rolled the dice, double or nothing, for a DC-3 down there and my Dad won it. ...
Probably helped him to lie down. I bet those DC-3s weren't very comfortable.
That gal can act a little bit.
Roger Kahn mentions his first flight in the Dodger DC-3 in the opening chapter of "The Boys of Summer."
"I strode onto the plane, monarch of my dream, walking up the steep incline with the suggestion of swagger and dropping casually into seat B2. 'What the hell!' Something had stung me in the buttock. I bounced up. A spring had burst through the green upholstery. The naked end of metal lay exposed. 'What the hell,' I said again.
"'Nothing to worry about,' Fresco Thompson said. 'The people who maintain the springs are not the same people who maintain the engines.' He paused and raised white brows. 'Or so Walter O'Malley tells me.'"
Also my scrabble instinct for some reason(perhaps quail) just noticed the versatility of the pair guest and quest.
Or else some post mentioned a guest.
How great is Longford?
Answer: Pretty Great
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