Word: arroyo
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...clue be found in the bullpens? Hoyt Wilhelm is the only dependable reliever. Remember Barney Schultz. Larry Sherry, Luis Arroyo, Dick Radatz . . . few firemen are big for more than two years...
...Professionals. After coolly gunning down ten treacherous bandidos in a steamy Mexican arroyo, four scraggly do-gooders take a long look at the dead men's mounts. They hate killing horses, but you don't leave that kind of evidence roaming around. "They're harmless," says one. "Nothing's harmless in this desert unless it's dead," snaps a pardner. Though the horses are spared, everything else that moves is soon either dying, wounded or dodging...
...phenomenal. The loss of Mantle was only the climax to a series of injuries that at one time had nearly half the starting lineup on the bench. Whitey Ford suffered with a sore arm for two months, Tony Kubek missed a couple of weeks, Roger Maris was sidelined, Lois Arroyo finally had to be sent down to the minors, and Mantle himself had missed some games early in the season...
...batting .256 and hitting only 33 home runs. Mickey Mantle's spindleshanks spoiled what might have been his best season, stranding him on the bench for a third of the year. At 37, Yogi Berra could only manage a .222 average, and 1961's bullpen ace, Luis Arroyo, spent most of the year with his arm in a whirlpool bath...
...things began to go wrong. Though he has won eleven games (compared with 19 last year at this time), Whitey Ford up to last week had pitched only three complete games all season long. His arm ruined by years of throwing a tortuous screwball. Bullpen Ace Arroyo retired temporarily to the disabled list. Taunted almost beyond his endurance by beercan-throwing fans and ill-equipped to handle the problems of instant fame, Maris was hitting an anemic .249, will be lucky to manage 40 home runs this year. Manager Houk had only one .300 hitter−Mickey Mantle...