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Should DaShiell need assistance on the mound, Park has six relievers, all right-handers, in the bullpen Juniors Phil Collins. Tom Kidwell, Bill Kelly, and Curt Tucker can be called upon for long relief appearances, while Dave Fierke and Tom Miller are ready for shorter stints...
Strong Right Hand. The tipoff, Reston says, came last December when he made Rosenthal associate managing editor with license to ride herd on the "bullpen"-the traditionally sacrosanct bank of rewrite editors. Finally, the appointment of able, amiable Seymour Topping, 47, as assistant managing editor gives his good friend Rosenthal a strong right hand. "Nearly two years ago," Sulzberger summed up, "we began seriously to plan the transition to the next generation . . . That mission has been accomplished...
...League by hiring Outfielder Larry Doby in 1947, set attendance records (his 1948 season total of 2,620,627 is still an American League mark) and led both the Indians and the White Sox to pennants. Such Veeck innovations as exploding scoreboards and relief pitchers riding in from the bullpen on golf carts are now standard...
Talese tends to overinterpret a bit. Still, whether he is studying bullpen pecking order, invoking the camphor-scented memory of Times past, or heightening the Reston-Daniel showdown, at his best he has an eye like a Hasselblad for detail and a novelist's feel for scene setting...
Park was referring to the fact that Kalinoski, originally stationed in the bullpen, came on in mid-season to pitch 26 innings in three starting appearances, winning every game...