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...season opened, tobacco-chewing Manager Ralph Houk, winner of a world championship in his first year on the job, was two-or three-men deep at most positions. Between them, Pitchers Whitey Ford and Luis Arroyo had won 40 games in 1961. Roger Maris had clouted 61 homers; Mickey Mantle had hit 54; Catcher Elston Howard had batted .348. The slick-fielding Yankee infield was the best in baseball. The Yankees seemed a sure shot to win their twelfth pennant in 14 years...
Over the off-season, partisans of other A.L. hopefuls like Al Lopez and Bob Scheffing pointed, to the loss of shortstop Tony Kubek and the impossibility of repeat performances by Roger Maris and Luis Arroyo ("Relievers Don't Repeatl" an article in Baseball Digest maintained) as reasons for a Yankee collapse...
...performance of right-hander Bill Stafford. Despite a winning (3-2) record, Stafford has been hit hard, has not yet regained his control of last year, and has a 5.51 ERA. Whitey Ford (3-2) and Ralph Terry (4-3) have not been outstanding, and Luis Arroyo, an indispensable man last year, is 0 and 2 and has been injured since April...
...Yankees have an edge on the mound--unless Luis Arroyo falls apart. Whitey Ford (25-4) is currently the greatest "money" pitcher going, and Ralph Terry (16-3), Bill Stafford (14-8), Jim Coates (11-5), and Roland Sheldon (11-5) comprise the longest and most effective rotation in baseball...
...assault on Babe Ruth's home-run record (TIME, Sept. 29), Roger Maris bunted down the third-base line to squeeze the winning run across the plate in a crucial game. Whitey Ford (25-4), fighting hard for every game, put together his best season, and Screwballer Luis Arroyo (15-5) set a new Yankee record by making 65 relief appearances...