Word: bauers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then the alarmists cite the example of the San Francisco Giants' Juan Marichal, who had a bit of bad luck after appearing on our cover (June 10). But he finished the season as one of the two best pitchers in the league. What about Hank Bauer? His Baltimore Orioles seemed to have the pennant locked up, until the Sept. 11, 1964 cover, after which they lost half their games. Jinxed by TIME? "I don't believe in that stuff," growls Bauer. He was named Manager of the Year in 1964, and his team proved unjinxable earlier this month...
...Those guys who make the odds never played baseball," grunted Baltimore Manager Hank Bauer. "Our own pitching isn't so bad either." Oh, no? The Orioles' best pitcher, Steve Barber, spent most of the season on the disabled list with a sore arm and was ineligible for the series. Their top winner, Jim Palmer (record: 15-10), gave up so many home runs (20) that his teammates nicknamed him "Boom-Boom." Baltimore's starters managed to complete only 23 games all season-four fewer than Koufax alone. That provided a lot of work for the Birds...
...also the guy Manager Bauer called on to relieve Dave McNally in Los Angeles last week-with the Orioles leading, 4-1, in the first game of the series and the bases loaded with Dodgers. Moe walked the second man he faced, forcing in a run. "Oh, oh," he told himself, "just one base hit and I'm off to the showers." Drabowsky gave the Dodgers exactly that-one base hit, in 6⅔ innings. He tied a 47-year-old World Series record by striking out six Dodgers in a row, set another mark by whiffing a total...
...week. The New York Yankees clinched last place in the American League for the first time in 54 years. And the Chicago Cubs, managed by Leo Durocher, wound up in the National League cellar-thereby proving that it is not necessarily the nice guy who finishes last. Manager Hank Bauer of the American League champion Baltimore Orioles disproved another notion: that pay is related to performance. Bauer, who gave Baltimore its first pennant in 69 years, signed a new two-year contract for an estimated $50,000 a year-$25,000 less than the last-place Yanks pay their manager...
Biggest Bulls. Baltimore's only apparent weakness is its front-line pitching: in 90 tries so far, Orioles starters have managed to complete a mere 15 games. That does not alarm Manager Bauer. "All I want is six or seven good innings-and then I'll bring in the relievers," he says. "What the hell, I've got the best bullpen in the business...