On March 24, 1947, longtime Brooklyn Dodgers manager Leo Durocher confessed to playing card games within the clubhouse in a four-hour meeting with the Major League Baseball commissioner Albert 'Happy' Chandler at the Sarasota Terrace Hotel.
Despite the suspension for gambling, Durocher is mainly remembered fondly within baseball circles...he was outspoken regarding Jackie Robinson's appointment into the Major Leagues in the spring of 1947, just before being suspended.
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