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From Yankee Stadium in New York,

Gillette presents the second game of the 1949 World Series.

This is Mel Allen with Red Barber saying good afternoon for the

Gillette Safety Razor Company as the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees

warm up.

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Well, of course this big town and the nation and even around the world,

as they heard the broadcast yesterday yesterday as they saw it here.

They're all buzzing over the dramatic suddenness with which yesterday's

series opener ended a breathtaking pitching battle between the Dodgers dazzling down Newcombe and the Yankees

amazing alley Reynolds. They were swinging and missing yesterday. Newcombe mowed

down 11 Yankees too short of the record set by Howard Emke, Rennel struck out nine Dodgers.

20 in all, too short of the combined record set by Denny Gael House and Morton Cooper in the

1944 series.

Yes, sir, they were swinging and missing until the last of the ninth inning

when as Walter Winshold so aptly put it in his sum up a great duel that ended with one pistol shot and it was fired by one of the most remarkable

marksmen in recent baseball history. Maslin Ohio's gift to the baseball world

currently a resident of Ridgewood, New Jersey, Tommy Henric.

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