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Induction into Baseball's Hall of Fame is an occasion for hardened professionals to melt. "I thank everybody for making this day necessary," said Yogi Berra, wiping away a tear. The youngest player ever to be inducted, Sandy Koufax, 36, thanked the coach "who pushed me, shoved me, embarrassed me and made me work, and thank God for him." After similar expressions from Lefty Gomez, Early Wynn and Buck Leonard, it came time for the award to Josh Gibson, the greatest batter in the Negro leagues. Gibson died in 1947, but Josh Gibson Jr. was on hand to receive...
...into the stockade after one of his three courts-martial in as many years, he won a reprieve for one day only. The Yankees had come to Okinawa to play some exhibition games, and Downey had the reputation of being a good fastballer. He pitched three innings. Then Yogi Berra stepped up to bat, swatted one into the ocean, and Downey was back in stir...
...command it he does, with an agility and aplomb that make him, at 24, the outstanding catcher in baseball today-at a time when the game boasts its finest group of receivers since the days of Roy Campanella and Yogi Berra. From the very outset, in his first full season with the Reds in 1968, the husky (6 ft., 209 Ibs.), handsome athlete took charge on the diamond, calling the defensive shots, cutting down base runners like so many cornstalks, and imposing his canny grasp of pitching tactics on temperamental hurlers. Said former Reds Pitcher Jim Maloney, eight years Bench...
...skills closely parallel Bench's own. It may well be that Josh Gibson of the Homestead Grays in the old Negro League was better than any of them. Then add the Brooklyn Dodger Blockbuster Roy Campanella (TIME Cover, Aug. 8, 1955) and the Yankees' impish Yogi Berra and the list of supercatchers is completed. As for the mental-retardation image, four of the modern seven-Dickey, Hartnett, Cochrane and Berra-became big league managers. There are tragic reasons why the others did not. Gibson's color was-in his era-enough to keep...
...season. Top Starter Tom Seaver (who won seven of his first eight decisions) and Bullpen Ace Tug McGraw are producing as anticipated, and the Mets have been getting unexpectedly strong performances from Rookie Jon Matlack (who won his first five). With the strongest lineup the team has ever had, Berra has a good chance to take the Mets into their second World Series in his first year as their manager...