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...earned run average, which was second best in the league. Peters, rookie of the year in 1963, won 20 games last season and should be a star for many, many years. Pizarro had an excellent 19 mark in 1964. Aging knuokleballer Hoyt Wilhelm heads a strong White Sox bullpen. In 73 games last year, Wilhelm won 12, lost 9, saved 21, and recorded...
...York starting pitchers are Jim Bouton (18-13) and Al Downing (13-8). Bouton will have a good season, but Downing has always been wild and erratic. Although he led the league in strikeouts last year, the southpaw fastballer walked 120 men in 244 innings. The New York bullpen is totally inadequate, with nonentities like Pete Mikkelson, Hal Reniff, and Stan Williams...
...there's the news conference in my office of all the desk heads. They present what's coming up in the way of news, make suggestions for future stories, and the like. Summaries of their reports are sent to the news editor's bullpen, and from these the front page, the split page,* the sports page are laid out, so on down the line. The publisher drops by every day before going home, and we sit down and chew the fat. Shop talk. There's a very intimate and continuing contact with the publisher, so much...
...earned-run average of 2.76, easily tops in the majors. Lopez got Juan Pizarro (16-6) from Milwaukee, John Buzhardt (10-6) from Philadelphia, and Ray Herbert (6-4) from Kansas City. Gary Peters (13-7) and Joe Horlen (9-8) came up from Sox farms. In the bullpen, ex-Oriole Hoyt Wilhelm at 41 has brought his dancing knuckle ball into no fewer than 56 games this year. He has 17 official saves and an E.R.A. of 2.27. And then there is Eddie Fisher (ex-Giant), another knuckler, who has not lost a game in his last 17 appearances...
...Yanks are wising up. They have Yogi Berra as their manager now; he starts sentences with "I may not be much of a manager, but . . ." They have a .189 hitter in the starting lineup (not even the Mets can match that), and they have a bullpen full of people who are reasonably skilled in the difficult art of throwing gopher balls. It is a slow process, but the Yankees are learning how to lose. So far this season, they have already dropped six out of ten to the sixth-place Boston Red Sox, three out of seven to the last...