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Rickey’s vacation had to be canceled, though, when he was fifa 15 coins hospital- ized with a bladder infection. Many people close to him feared he had suffered another Ménière’s attack, but Jane Rickey, in a rare public com- ment, downplayed the illness. So did Walter O’Malley, making a rare comment in the sports pages, who said that Rickey was suffering from only a “minor” ailment.

While in the hospital Rickey dispatched road secretary Harold Parrott to Ebbets Field to ask for the manager’s resignation. The Dodgers were playing a doubleheader with the Giants, and Brooklyn was far behind in the first game. Parrott found Durocher in the clubhouse after another of his many ejections by the men in blue. When told that Rickey wanted him to resign, Durocher refused. “The Old Man will have to fire me him- self, face-to-face, and he hasn’t got the guts,” Leo roared.

Suddenly, coach Clyde Sukeforth stuck his head in the door to an- nounce that Roy Campanella had hit a two-run homer, and the Dodgers were coming closer in the first game. Parrott and Durocher talked some more to no avail about the resignation. Soon, Sukeforth returned excit-edly to announce that Campy had hit a 3-run homer and that the Dodg- ers had taken the lead. They wound up sweeping the doubleheader and started on a winning streak.

With his manager still employed, Rickey checked out of the hospital to recuperate on his Maryland farm, where he would continue to pon- der his manager’s fate. The media-savvy Durocher told columnist Bill Corum of the New York Journal-American about Rickey’s plans, and Burris Jenkins, the newspaper’s cartoonist, lampooned the executive as hiding behind a haystack on his farm.37 Of course, Rickey’s decision would not be determined by press satire or criticism, but his swirling, hyperactive mind considered the alternatives. There was certainly every likelihood that Durocher would rebound as a winning manager, and he thought that the surge upward might have even started with the latest winning streak. Yet the internal politics of Rickey’s situation in Brooklyn also had to be considered. Even though Durocher had returned to manage, and the Catholic Youth Organization (cyo) had resumed its support of the Knothole Gang program, many priests and cyo leaders made no secret of their distaste for him as a bad influence on youth.