On March 5, 1958 — The Los Angeles Dodgers, whose players stay healthy enough on the diamond but seemed jinxed on the highway, held their breath today as doctors examined dry X-ray plates of Duke Snider’s left knee and Johnny Podres neck. Snider, Podres and Don Zimmer all were injured Wednesday when a sports car driven by Snider veered off a road into a ditch as they try to beat a 12:30 A.M. curfew.
An examination of wet X-ray plates showed that Snider and Podres escaped broken bones but the final verdict awaited a medical report on the dry plates. Zimmer, suffered only a bruised forehead and played a full nine innings at shortstop in a camp game the same day. Snider and Podres watched from the stands. This is the third accident involving Dodgers players in the last two months; Jim Gilliam and his family had an accident shortly after Roy Campanella’s.
