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DODGER DEB
11-20-2007, 12:31 PM
LARAINE DAY, wife of OUR infamous manager in the 1940's, LEO DUROCHER, passed away on November 10, 2007 at age 87.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9401E4D61F31F930A25752C1A9619C8B 63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print
How many of you remember this marriage, with its on and off the field antics? She and Leo were literally joined at the hip. The publicity was incredible. When he moved on to the Giants, WPIX-TV gave them their own show "A Day with the Giants". Now, it turns out she never even liked baseball.
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EdTarbusz
11-20-2007, 12:33 PM
Now, it turns out she never even liked baseball.
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1939, Baseball's Tipping Point said something similar about Red Barber, that he was not a baseball fan and didn't go to games after he left broadcasting.
DODGER DEB
11-20-2007, 12:52 PM
Here is a little more backgound on their relationship and MLB in that same time period. This is a post from the History Forum....
http://www.baseball-fever.com/showpost.php?p=1052826&postcount=1
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Which was worse stealing some poor guys wife or stealing our pennant?
penncentralpete
11-20-2007, 01:48 PM
rest in peace
penncentralpete
11-20-2007, 01:58 PM
Willie, Laraine, and Leo 1955
penncentralpete
11-20-2007, 02:00 PM
Spring 1955
Ralph Zig Tyko
11-20-2007, 02:27 PM
Don't forget that Leo also stole Babe Ruth's watch. :-)
The book "The Lip," written by Gerald Eskenazi, is a must read.
dodger dynamo
11-20-2007, 04:57 PM
I remember them on an episode of what's my line. I forget which one was the mystery guest, but they were both on. laraine "what was wrong with you!" liked leo as a manager, but she should have known that once he got her he was going to remain on the make. oh, at the time her morals more than his came into question, but both were ridiculed. oh, my mother had a lot to say about it. people who can figure them. eventually they did divorce, would like to know the whole story behind that. battlin bake, the dodger dynamo
callingit
11-24-2007, 07:08 PM
That Laraine Day never liked baseball is no surprise: she openly admits she had no clue about baseball or who LD was when she met him in her book 'A Day With The Giants'. She more or less grew into the role of baseball wife to present the 'proper' public image.
RIP, Laraine.
penncentralpete
11-28-2007, 05:20 PM
Leo with another Babe:
penncentralpete
11-28-2007, 09:53 PM
Leo and Laraine: