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Johnson rightly thinks of himself as a "general manager"-he is, not in the corporate sense, but like the manager of a baseball team. He has to know who should pitch on what day, and when to walk the batter when the game...
...cocked righthanded. fingers flexing and caressing the handle, Mantle crouched at the plate and waited. As the pitcher went into his windup. Mantle dug his spikes more firmly into the batter's box, hunching his fullback's body (5 ft.11 in., 195 Ibs.) into a deeper crouch. The pitch bulleted toward him at something like 80 m.p.h.?a fast ball, letter high, over the outside corner of the plate...
...Penn Batter Leads...
Penn is leading in individual statistics as well as league standings. First baseman Joe Golden is leading Ivy hitters with a .455 mark in eight games. Columbia's Leo Bookman is second with a .452 average. No Crimson batter is among the Ivy League leaders...
...ball." Whatever the explanation, Campanella's hitting is a profound source of pleasure to Brooklyn Manager Charley Dressen. who has been shuffling his players frantically to get more power into his lineup. But Dressen is even more pleased, if possible, with Campanella the backstop than with Campanella the batter. "He's really a great catcher," says Dressen. happily ticking off Campy's virtues. "The pitchers like to pitch to him. Not many balls get by him. He picks men off bases, and that builds up the pitcher's confidence." Not one of the game...