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...Barlick, Johnny Bench and Red Schoendienst. Four new names in an institution full of names, faces and memories of America's self-proclaimed pastime...
When superbird Lou Brock, 4 for 4 yesterday and 0 for 4 against Lonborg, asked plate umpire A1 Barlick to check for a spitball to lead off the ninth, there could be no more doubt that the Cardinals were dead. It was Lonborg who should have been given the saliva test. Soon the final out was salted away in the glove of centerfielder Reggie Smith, and the Sox evened the Series...
...last of the fifth, the Braves put on a concentrated campaign of delay. The Troubadours started it off by playing "Night and Day." Connie Ryan came on deck wearing a raincoat, evidently to imply that it was raining rather heavily on the field. Barlick permitted him to leave the field at a minimum cost...
Shortly thereafter the Braves lit a small bonfire on the dugout steps and huddled around it warming their digits. Umpire Barlick chose to ignore this. The Braves even went so far as to get two base hits off Newcombe before they relapsed to form and struck out one, two, three...
...fact, Barney's boys only made one mistake. In the top half of the fourth Barlick was forced to stroll over to the Dodger dugout to ask Gene Hermanski if he would kindly shut his yap. Mr. Hermanski attributed his blasphemous outburst to a fit of boyish enthusiasm and respectfully complied...