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Many doctors - surgeons especially - operate on the principle of charging the patient according to his ability to pay. Ophthalmic Surgeon Alston Callahan of Birmingham operates on his own version of the principle. A well-heeled patient gets no bill. Instead, he is asked for a donation to the center in which he has been treated...
...Drysdale had been working out, but Koufax had done nothing more strenuous all spring than play a round of golf-and it was a good bet that neither would be ready to pitch nine innings before the season was two weeks old. "Our main concern," said Dodger Manager Walter Alston, "is to make sure they don't overtax their arms and injure them." Naturally, at those prices...
...spring for Nate Oliver has provided a possible answer to Walt Alston's infield problems. Oliver will open the season at second base, with Jim Lefebvre moving over to third. Tommy Davis should be back in left field, although his ankle remains somewhat suspect...
Dodgers, Hometown Piece for Messrs. Alston and Reese. Alas, even with a rooting muse like that, the team packed up for Los Angeles, leaving its poet in residence behind in Brooklyn, where she went on celebrating the borough, her "city of trees." But in the following season, she found that not all the bums had gone West. Drunks rang her doorbell at 3 a.m., and "one of my neighbors was robbed three times," she complained. So, at 78, after 35 years, Miss Moore moved to Greenwich Village, where a baseball diamond is very square...
...Zoilo Versalles run up his arm, over his shoulder, and halfway into leftfield for a two-base error. A sacrifice and two hits later, the Twins had a 2-0 lead. The Dodgers got back one in the seventh, and then, with the tying run on third, Manager Walt Alston made his move. He took Koufax out for a pinch hitter-Don Drysdale-who struck out on three pitches. After that the box score became a nightmare. The Twins won 5-1, with the aid of three Dodger errors (Alston's didn't count), a balk...