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Even at 41, Baltimore Manager Hank Bauer is the sort of man who gives people pause. He stands 6 ft., weighs 190 Ibs., has a face like a clenched fist and a voice that starts out tenderly-like an avalanche. He carries shrapnel scars, two Bronze Stars, and a card in the steam fitters' union, has done his share of knocking around-places like Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Guam, Okinawa. And when he played rightfield for the Yankees from 1949 to 1959, his specialty was knocking down double-play-minded second basemen...
...Bauer wasted no time whipping the Orioles into line when he took over the club this spring. Baltimore had not won a major-league pennant since 1896, and the Orioles, under easygoing ex-Manager Billy Hitchcock, had a reputation for playing their best ball off the job. The first thing Bauer did was fine Outfielder Willie Kirkland $300 for being three days late getting to camp. ("Whew!" said Kirkland, and it sounded suspiciously like relief.) Then, just like Yankee Manager Yogi Berra, Hank announced that his team would observe a midnight curfew, would wear shirts and ties on the road...
...Bauer's get-tough tactics are paying off handsomely. The Orioles started the season by taking four straight from the Yanks and the Chicago White Sox. Two weeks ago, they swept three in a row from New York. Now it is July 4-and they are coasting along in first place, four games ahead of the pack. For a team that wound up seventh in 1962 and fourth last year, the Orioles seem too good to be true. Third Baseman Brooks Robinson (a .251-hitter in 1963), is batting a lusty .314. Outfielder Boog Powell has 20 homers. Rookie...
That last victory put the Yankees in first place for the first time all season, and off they went to Baltimore, their new image in dire jeopardy. Baltimore Manager Hank Bauer had predicted that New York would win the pennant, said that his Orioles could not possibly finish better than third. But in the first game, trailing 7-2 with two out in the eighth inning, the Orioles were treated to seven hits and seven runs by the accommodating Yanks. Final score: Baltimore 9, New York 8. "You can't win 'em all," sighed Berra happily...
Despite the trouble Yakabane and Spalding had winning the third match, coach Wynn commented the "I like the way my boys are playing in the doubles." However, he has good reserves in such men as Dean Bauer at number seven, and will undoubtedly experiment with some different lineups...