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...Bauer, naturally, did not get along with Finley. Nobody does. A cigar-chewing Chicago insurance man who made $10 million at his trade, Finley runs his ball club like a child playing with a Roger Maris Baseball Game. He battles constantly with sportswriters, rival owners, league officials. And he discards managers the way women throw away hats...
...Bauer's Athletics won 72 games-their second-best showing ever. Finley still insisted that Bauer play certain men, bench others, ordered him to tell Manny Jimenez, the club's rookie sensation (.301, eleven homers in 1962), to stop slicing singles and start swinging for the fences. Bauer ground his teeth-and followed orders. Last Jimenez' average plummeted 20 points, and he did not hit a single home run. Bauer, gratefully, had long since left. There were still two days to go in the 1962 season when he announced that he was quitting: "When a man loses...
Nine Black Bats. Hank Bauer may have quit the A's-but not Kansas City. It has been his off-season home ever since he arrived in 1947, a young pipe fitter who figured himself "good enough to play Triple A ball, nothing more." The Bauers' neat grey-brick house in suburban Prairie Village is stocked with the usual mementos of Hank's playing career: bronze-dipped spikes and gloves, plaques, pictures, and a rack of nine shiny black World Series bats, one for each of Hank's years as a member of the champion Yankees...
...fall, for Hank Bauer, may come a little late this year. Way back in July the Baltimore Orioles reserved 47 rooms at Philadelphia's Warwick Hotel for the second week in October. By week's end it looked as though they might just be picking up the keys. But it was going to be a battle all the way. The second-place Chicago White Sox split with Detroit and beat Cleveland 6-5. The third-place Yankees lost two out of three to Los Angeles, mostly because they scored only six runs in 27 innings- none...
...Hank, wait a minute! But Hank Bauer had already picked up his towel, slung it over his shoulder, and was striding toward the shower...