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Monday, January 14, 2008

Passing: Johnny Podres, Pitched Brooklyn Dodgers to Only Championship (NY Daily News)

From The New York Daily News:

by Bill Madden
January 14, 2008

Johnny Podres, the cool and clutch lefty who pitched the Dodgers to their one and only world championship in Brooklyn by shutting out the Yankees, 2-0, in the seventh game of the 1955 World Series, died Sunday (january 13) night in a hospital in Glens Falls, N.Y. He was 75.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/2008/01/14/2008-01-14_johnny_podres_dead_at_75.html

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