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...soon promoted from pole-hole digger to such jobs as "interference engineer" and "foreign wire relations engineer" and spotted by his superiors as a cool, unflappable fellow not given to snap decisions. Every night he took home a briefcase heavy with homework, and even when he went to the ballpark he took along other A.T.&T. people to talk operations and engineering. He steadily moved up 14 levels on the corporate escalator to a vice-presidency of A.T.& T.'s Northwestern Bell. He was called to New York headquarters, became president in 1954 of A.T.&T.'s manufacturing...
...helped keep San Francisco in the race for first place since the start of the season, walked up to Willie in mock anger: "You didn't hit any homers the last time I pitched-you owe me two." "Have a heart," chirped Mays. "This is a big ballpark." He then slammed one into the left-field seats in the third inning, put a second in the right-centerfield seats (with a man on base) in the fifth, for good measure singled to left in the seventh, driving in yet another run. Score: Giants 6, Colts...
Never Bored. In 41 years on the New York Times, and before that for eleven years on the Staten Island Advance, Drebinger's first love has been put to the test. He has watched some 6,800 big-league games in just about every ballpark in the land. From 1929 through 1963, he took in every World Series game-203 in all. The American League Yankees invested this procession with a certain sameness by playing in 22 of the 35 series and by winning 17. Drebinger did not mind. He loves the Yankees best...
...probably too late for enforced retirement to make much difference to the old sportswriter's habits. The new season is about to start, and though John Drebinger will not be going to the ballpark for the New York Times, he intends to be there...
...outsmarted, but I'll never be outhustled," Finley promised. "What this team needs is color." He spent $411,000 renovating Kansas City's Municipal Stadium, painting it yellow, turquoise and orange, then boasting: "I may not have the best team, but I sure have the sexiest ballpark." He installed all kinds of odd gimmicks-a "Fan-O-Gram" that spelled out messages on the Scoreboard (sample: "Welcome to Paul Richards and his flock of chirping Baltimore Orioles"), a "Little Blowhard" that dusted home plate with compressed air, a mechanical rabbit named Harvey that rose out of the ground...