A good friend of Leo Durocher, he would often travel with the team.

But in his final game that year, playing against the Houston Astros ( led by manager Leo Durocher, who had once roomed with Babe Ruth ), he was unable to achieve this.

Charges were levelled by both sides, including accusations that Durocher was a philanderer because of his alleged involvement with married actress Laraine Day, which ultimately resulted in Day's divorce.

In 1962 when the Dodgers led the NL for most of the season ( only to find themselves tied with the hated Giants at the season's end ) it was Snider and third-base coach Leo Durocher who reportedly pleaded with Manager Walter Alston to bring in future Hall of Fame pitcher ( and Cy Young award winner that year ), Don Drysdale, in the ninth inning of the third and deciding play-off game.

At the same time, he was doing promotion for several baseball players, including Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays, and his radio beginnings may be attributable to his connection with the New York Giants, whose manager, Leo Durocher, was the husband of Laraine Day.

Martin, along with Cardinals teammates such as Leo Durocher, Dizzy Dean and Joe Medwick among others, became known as the 1934 Gashouse Gang due to their boisterous activities on and off the field.

Durocher liked to tell of a time that he was arguing with Conlan.

However Lane recanted and apologized after negotiations with Leo Durocher broke down and Gordon was rehired.

Durocher remained with the Cardinals through the season, captaining the team and winning the 1934 World Series ( their third title in nine years ) before being traded to the Brooklyn Dodgers.

As a manager, his temperament came into its own, and the most enduring images of Durocher are of him standing toe-to-toe with an umpire, vehemently arguing his case until his inevitable ejection from the game.

In a July 6,, interview with Red Barber, Durocher had been commenting on the common belief at the time that if a team's players got along well, they would naturally play better than teams with difficult or irascible players ; noting some of the players on the Giants who had reputations as personable individuals, notably Mel Ott, he observed that they were all " nice guys ", but would nonetheless finish last ( while his Dodgers were in first place ), summing up his argument with, " Nice guys ; finish last.

The Dodgers were coming off six straight losing seasons, but Durocher made a quick turnaround ; apart from the war year of 1944, he would not have a losing campaign with the team.

But Durocher also clashed regularly with Commissioner Albert " Happy " Chandler, who had been named to the post in 1945.

During spring training 1947, Durocher became involved in an unseemly feud with the new Yankee owner, Larry MacPhail.

In person, Durocher and MacPhail exchanged a series of accusations and counter-accusations, with each suggesting the other invited gamblers into their clubhouses.

) Chandler suspended Durocher for the season for " association with known gamblers ".

He greatly admired Robinson for his hustle and aggression, calling him " a Durocher with talent.

Durocher with the Giants in 1948.

He would return for the season, but his outspoken personality and poor results on the field that season ( Brooklyn briefly fell into the basement ) would again cause friction with Rickey, and on July 16 of that year, Durocher, Rickey and New York Giants owner Horace Stoneham negotiated a deal whereby Durocher was let out of his Brooklyn contract to take over the Dodgers ' cross-town rivals.

Later with the Giants in, Durocher won his only World Series championship as a manager by sweeping the heavily favored Cleveland Indians, who had posted the best American League record of all time ( 111-43 ) in the regular season.

In an ( 4 / 10 / 63 ) airing of The Beverly Hillbillies, Durocher plays golf with Jed Clampett ( Buddy Ebsen ) and Jethro Bodine ( Max Baer, Jr .), and he tries to sign Jethro to a baseball contract after discovering Jethro has a strong pitching arm.

In those 11 years, Martin and his panel of pals successfully ridiculed and made fun of these legendary stars in this order: Ronald Reagan, Hugh Hefner, Ed McMahon, William Conrad, Kirk Douglas, Bette Davis, Barry Goldwater, Johnny Carson, Wilt Chamberlain, Hubert Humphrey, Carroll O ' Connor, Monty Hall, Jack Klugman & Tony Randall, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Leo Durocher, Truman Capote, Don Rickles, Ralph Nader, Jack Benny, Redd Foxx, Bobby Riggs, George Washington, Dan Rowan & Dick Martin, Hank Aaron, Joe Namath, Bob Hope, Telly Savalas, Lucille Ball, Jackie Gleason, Sammy Davis Jr, Michael Landon, Evel Knievel, Valerie Harper, Muhammad Ali, Dean Martin, Dennis Weaver, Joe Garagiola, Danny Thomas, Angie Dickinson, Gabe Kaplan, Ted Knight, Peter Marshall, Dan Haggerty, Frank Sinatra, Jack Klugman, Jimmy Stewart, George Burns, Betty White, Suzanne Somers, Joan Collins, and Mr T. For nearly a decade, Martin had recorded as many as four albums a year for Reprise Records.

*" Nice Guys Finish Last ", by Leo Durocher with Ed Linn.

He tried Lary at third base and Leo Durocher at shortstop, while he attempted to acquire George Uhle and Ed Morris, but was unsuccessful in both cases.

Métis leader Jim Durocher, an Orchard supporter, wrote a letter to Dion complaining about his decision to appoint a candidate rather than allow for party members to vote in a nomination meeting.

Pappas's manager on the Cubs, Leo Durocher, had unkind words for Pappas ( and several other Cubs ) in his memoir Nice Guys Finish Last.

) Thus the quote " Nice guys finish last " has long been attributed to Durocher, including an entry in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.

Next to Leo Durocher, Dark taught Mays the most when he was a grass-green rookie rushed up to the Polo Grounds 10 years ago this month, to help the Giants win a dramatic pennant.

Not only was the mid-season switch unusual, but Durocher had been accused of gambling in 1947 and subsequently suspended for the entire 1947 season by Baseball Commissioner Albert " Happy " Chandler.

In an ironic twist, he walked into a situation where his manager was also the regular shortstop — in this case, Leo Durocher.

Unlike Cronin, however, Durocher was willing to give up his spot in the lineup to Reese.

After his 1946 military discharge he returned to Brooklyn and saw play as a catcher in 1947, joining the team's already solid nucleus of Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese and Carl Furillo ; but the emergence of Roy Campanella made it evident that Hodges had little future behind the plate, and he was shifted by manager Leo Durocher to first base, where his play came to be regarded as exemplary.

) Caray was also seen as influential enough that he could affect team personnel moves ; Cardinals historian Peter Golenbock ( in The Spirit of St. Louis: A History of the St. Louis Cardinals and Browns ) has suggested Caray may have had a partial hand in the maneuvering that led to the exit of general manager Bing Devine, the man who had assembled the team that won the 1964 World Series, and of field manager Johnny Keane, whose rumored successor, Leo Durocher ( the succession didn't pan out ), was believed to have been supported by Caray for the job.

Leo Durocher, who was Reiser's first major league manager, reflected many years later that in terms of talent, skill, and potential, there was only one other player comparable to Reiser-Willie Mays.

When Leo Durocher was named manager of the Chicago Cubs in 1966, he brought many of his former players to coach on his staff.

During the 1946 postseason, rumors began to swirl that Yankees owner Larry MacPhail was lobbying Brooklyn Dodgers manager Leo Durocher to leave the Dodgers and manage the Yankees.

When Durocher subsequently married Day, a local Catholic priest declared that attending Dodgers games was a venal sin.

At the beginning of the 1939 season, he was named as the Cardinals ' team captain, taking the job from Leo Durocher who had been traded to the Brooklyn Dodgers.

The punchline to that story, as Durocher told it, was that Conlan, being the plate umpire on that occasion, " was wearing shin guards and plate shoes ," so Durocher came off the worse for it.

Leo Ernest Durocher ( in French Léo Ernest Durocher ) ( July 27, 1905 – October 7, 1991 ), nicknamed Leo the Lip, was an American infielder and manager in Major League Baseball.

The rookie was facing withering insults from opposing players, and a petition by Dodger players protesting Robinson's presence had only recently been quashed by Durocher.