In another curious move Dressen allowed pitcher Billy Loes to hit for himself in the seventh.

" Dressen himself told his team, " I guarantee we won't finish in sixth place again.

Early in his career, McLain ’ s interest in betting on horses was piqued by Chuck Dressen, one of his first managers.

Manager Dressen used 14 starting pitchers on the year, but as a unit, the pitchers combine to finished second in the NL in team ERA.

After returning to Nashville at the outset of to resume his successful minor league managerial career, Dressen was called to Cincinnati to manage the last-place Reds on July 18, 1934.

But when MacPhail resigned in October 1942 to rejoin the armed forces and was succeeded by Branch Rickey, Dressen was fired from Durocher ’ s staff — reportedly because he refused to eschew betting on horses.

The raids contributed to a public feud between MacPhail on one side and Durocher and Rickey on the other ; ultimately Commissioner of Baseball Albert B. Chandler would suspend Durocher for the entire season for " conduct detrimental to baseball ," suspend Dressen for 30 days for signing a Yankee contract while still an employee of the Dodgers, and fine both clubs and some of their employees.

In the ninth inning of the decisive third game at the Polo Grounds, Dodger starting pitcher Don Newcombe had a 4 – 2 lead and two men on base when Dressen decided to go to the bullpen, where Carl Erskine and Ralph Branca were warming up.

The 1955 Senators finished eighth and last, the 1956 edition finished seventh, and the ' 57 team was 4 – 16 ( and last again ) on May 7, 1957, when Dressen was fired.

After the Detroit Tigers won only 24 of their first 60 games under Bob Scheffing, the call went out for Dressen on June 19.

Back home in Winter Haven, Florida, Shotton ignored O ' Malley's repeated suggestions that he fly to Brooklyn to " discuss future ," declaring, " I don't intend to go all the way up there just to be fired ," Indeed, O ' Malley had already decided on Chuck Dressen as his new manager.

Victimized by the Tigers ' slow start in, he was replaced as Detroit's skipper on June 19 by Chuck Dressen.

Dodger coach Clyde Sukeforth noticed that Erskine was bouncing several curveballs in the dirt and instructed manager Charlie Dressen to call on Branca — this despite Thomson having homered off Branca in Game 1.

Controversially, manager Charlie Dressen opted to play only the first game at home, rather than the last two ; he reasoned that if the Dodgers won their only home game, they would need to win only one out of two on the road.

He was almost summoned to relieve in the ninth inning of Game 3, but reportedly was having trouble harnessing his curveball in the bullpen ; Dodger manager Chuck Dressen called on Ralph Branca instead.

While Mueller was being carried off the field to be replaced by a pinch runner, Dodger manager Chuck Dressen called on relief pitcher Ralph Branca, whose second pitch was hit by Thomson into the Polo Grounds ' lower left field stands for a game-winning, three-run homer.

But on May 7, 1957, with the Senators foundering in last place, Dressen was fired and Lavagetto named his successor.

Dressen returned to Oakland to manage the PCL Oaks in 1954 while he sorted out his major league future, then was hired to manage the hapless Washington Senators, who had finished sixth in the eight-team American League in 1954.

He was a loyal aide to Dressen with Brooklyn ( 1951 – 53 ) and the Pacific Coast League Oaks ( 1954 ), and followed him to the Washington Senators when he became their manager in.

The Reds would rise as high as fifth place under him, in, but when they fell back into the National League basement the following season, Dressen was fired.

Known for his sunny self-confidence, Dressen would often tell his highly talented Dodgers, " Just hold them, boys, until I think of something.

Stengel was replaced by Chuck Dressen, who led the Oaks to a second place finish in 1949 and the PCL pennant in 1950.

On his own initiative, Dressen called time, ran from the dugout, and advised Giants ' first baseman and playing manager Bill Terry how to pitch and defend Bolton, whom Dressen knew from his Southern Association days.

Dressen inherited a second division team with a poor farm system.

They again finished second in 1960, but a full seven games behind, and were 71 – 58 and in fourth place late in, when Dressen was replaced by Birdie Tebbetts.

* Ernst Klee and Willi Dressen, with Volker Riess, “ Gott mit uns ”: Der deutsche Vernichtungskrieg im Osten, 1939 – 1945 ( Frankfurt am Main, S. Fischer, 1989 ).

In 1952 the Dodgers, led by manager Chuck Dressen, paced the NL in runs scored ( 775 ), home runs ( 153 ) and stolen bases ( 90 ).

* Ernst Klee, Willi Dressen and Volke Riess ( editors ), " The Good Old Days ": The Holocaust Through the Eyes of the Perpetrators and Bystanders, London, Hamish Hamilton, 1991 ; published in the USA under the title " The Good Old Days ": The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders, Old Saybrook, CT, Konecky and Konecky, 1991 ISBN 1-56852-133-2 ( original German edition S. Fischer, 1988 ).

The move has bewildered baseball historians to this day ( and, combined with the positioning of Hodges, was possibly at least the second questionable decision by Dressen that inning, and resulted in Sukeforth being fired shortly thereafter ).

He began with masks to make the dancer identify himself with the creature he appeared to be.

When Nan Patterson, a stunning and money-minded chorus girl who had appeared in a Floradora road show, rode down Broadway in a hansom cab with her married lover, Frank Young, she stopped the cab to disclose that Young had been shot dead, tearfully insisting that he had shot himself although experts said he could not have done so.

Gorton reverted to his Plymouth tactics, refused to let her go, and appeared himself before the Portsmouth grand jury.

In the light of those events, there appeared to be a real danger that Premier Khrushchev might overreach himself.

His mother, who had seen little of him for four years, appeared worried about his sailing off by himself for an Orient which, she herself having slight knowledge of it, had to be distrusted.

He also appeared as himself on The Ed Sullivan Show, Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, The Red Skelton Show, The Merv Griffin Show, The Mike Douglas Show, and guested on Ralph Edwards ' This Is Your Life on February 12, 1961 with honoree Peter Palmer.

Pop singer Pat Boone appeared on one episode as himself, with the premise that he hailed from the same area of the country as the Clampetts, though Boone is a native of Jacksonville, Florida.

In 1964, he appeared as Richard Kimble's nephew in ABC's The Fugitive in the 15th episode entitled " Home Is The Hunted "; as Barry in the NBC medical drama The Eleventh Hour, episode " Sunday Father "; as himself three times in the ABC sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet ; in the Disney film For the Love of Willadena ; and as a troubled orphan taken home with Darrin and Samantha Stephens in Bewitched episode " A Vision of Sugarplums " ( December 1964 ).

DeMille also appeared as himself in Paramount's 1947 all-star musical comedy Variety Girl and he narrated many of his later films, as well as appearing on screen in the introduction to The Ten Commandments.

The great edition, of which the text and apparatus appeared in 1869 and 1872, was called by himself editio viii ; but this number is raised to twenty or twenty-one, if mere reprints from stereotype plates and the minor editions of his great critical texts are included ; posthumous prints bring the total to forty-one.

He immediately published The Review, which appeared weekly, then three times a week, written mostly by himself.

In Mr. Rice's Secret ( 2000 ), he played the title role as the neighbour of a terminally ill twelve-year-old, and the following year appeared as himself in Zoolander.

Jones also appeared in animated form as himself in 1972 in an hour-long episode of The New Scooby-Doo Movies.

In 1963, Ed Sullivan appeared as himself in the film Bye Bye Birdie.

Sullivan also appeared as himself on other television programs, including an April 1958 episode of the Howard Duff and Ida Lupino CBS sitcom, Mr. Adams and Eve.

Ackerman himself appeared as a character in The Vampire Affair by David McDaniel ( a novel in the Man from U. N. C. L. E.

All three of his children have appeared in the three Star Wars prequels, as has Lucas himself.

Though representing himself as a spokesman for the common man, he often appeared out of place with real working people.

He gave himself up to intense production, and a succession of works soon appeared.

He appeared as himself in George Cukor's Let's Make Love ( 1960 ).

In 2005 Coleman appeared in WWE Superstar John Cena's music video for his single Bad, Bad Man ( from the album You Can't See Me ), Coleman played the part of himself as a bad guy taking the 1980s pop stars Madonna and Michael Jackson hostage.

Brooks also subsequently appeared as Gaines in a television mockumentary for the VH1 series Behind the Music and as the musical guest on an episode of Saturday Night Live which he hosted as himself.

In 2007, he appeared as himself on HBO's Entourage.

The performance was set on a bare stage, conceived to appear like a dress rehearsal, with Burton in a black v-neck sweater, and Gielgud himself tape-recorded the voice for the Ghost ( which appeared as a looming shadow ).

Zog surrounded himself with guards and rarely appeared in public.