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Mickey Mantle of the Yankees was injured too, early in the second series game. His replacement, Hank Bauer, a better hitter and far better fielder than Mantle, drove in the winning three runs yesterday with a two-out three-and-two pitch triple. Now, one out away from victory, Bauer raced in for Yvars' Texas Leaguer and caught it on the slide for what many consider the best fielding play of the series...
This is the key. The Yankees have recently sold (not even traded) Dick Kryhoski, 1b, Bill Johnson, 3b, and Cliff Mapes, rf-cf. They still have such spares as Jensen and Bauer, lf-cf, Coleman, 2b, Mize, 1b, and Martin 2b-ss. And the only time they have a man out of the position he was born to is when the sensational Gil McDougald plays third...
...Installed Surgeon John Wesley Cline of San Francisco as A.M.A. president, and chose Heart Specialist Louis Hopewell Bauer of Hempstead, N.Y. as president elect for next year...
Despite the failure of Joe DiMaggio and the retirement of Tommy Henrich, the Yanks still have outfielders of the calibre of Bauer, Mapes, and Woodling, in addition to the even younger Jensen and Mantle. But Reynolds and Shea leave much to be desired this year as third and fourth starters behind Lopat and Raschi. And the collapse of Joe Page has left the club without a reliable relief hurler...
Died. Harold Bauer, 77, British-born concert pianist, who made his debut at nine as a violinist, switched to the piano at 20, became a U.S. citizen in 1921, made world concert tours for half a century, then retired and wrote about them in Harold Bauer: His Book (1948); of a heart ailment; in Miami...