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...Yankee Pitcher Ed Lopat's All-Star baseball team, billed as the "greatest array of major-league stars ever to visit Japan," was staggered, 5-4, in its opening game, by the Mainichi Orions, a second-division club in the Pacific League. Among the fallen stars: Yankees Yogi Berra and Billy Martin, Pitchers Mike Garcia and Robin Roberts, and Home-Run Kings Ed Mathews and Hank Sauer...
...sooner did the Brooks tie the score at 5-5 than Yogi Berra vaulted a home run into the right field stands in the bottom of the seventh. The Yanks picked up three more in the eighth, but they were superfluous, for reliever Sain recovered from a shaky seventh inning and went on to gain credit...
...crucial play of the game followed, as Cox, with runners on first and second and no men out, bunted up the third base line. Berra fired his throw to third base, and Hodges was called out on a close play...
...Backing them up is the greatest money pitcher in either league: Allie Reynolds, who at 34 can still pitch his way out of a tight spot with three blistering fast balls. Though Yankee hitters are less fearsome than the Dodgers, four regulars are over .300. Catcher Yogi Berra, Outfielders Hank Bauer and Gene Woodling, Pinchhitter Johnny Mize can all deliver the big hit with men on bases. And in Mickey Mantle (.297) the Yankees have a bubblegum-popping youngster who runs like a scared whippet and can slam a ball out of any ball park in the country...
Pinch-Hit Double. Joe may occasionally mispronounce the players' names (he calls Yogi Berra "Berry"), but he has an encyclopedic memory for baseball statistics and stories. He says that he did not get into show business until he was nine but he was a confirmed baseball fan at four. Though he made a living as a circus aerialist in his teens, Joe spent each summer playing semi-pro and minor-league baseball. In 1920 his friend Ed Barrow, manager of the Boston Red Sox, let Joe pinch-hit for Outfielder Harry Hooper in an exhibition game. In what...