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Yale's offense moves in short combination passes. Wings Joe Upton (five Ivy goals) and Rick Sewall (four) are the top scorers for the Elis and inside Derek Busch has set up many of their goals with his accurate passes...
Back to St. Louis went the Cardinals, to a tumultuous welcome at the airport, a sellout crowd at Busch Stadium ("Spell that Bush," growled one Yankee)-and the biggest collection of noisemakers and freon horns ever assembled west of the Mississippi. But the Yankees still had to be shown, jumped on five Cardinal pitchers for ten hits and an 8-3 victory. Once again the Series was all even, and now everything-$8,400 for the winners, $5,200 for the losers-was riding on the seventh game...
There was only one postscript to be added. Into Owner Gussie Busch's office next day walked Johnny Keane, the Redbirds' manager, a veteran of 35 years in the Cardinal organization, and the man who as much as anyone made it all possible. For Keane, victory had a special flavor-the taste of revenge. A month before, the Cards were six games back of first place, and he was merely running out his time; Busch had already lined up Leo Durocher for the job. Now Keane could write his own ticket. He did. Handing Owner Busch an envelope...
...York Yankees made it official that Johnny Keane, who won the World Series with his St. Louis Cardinals this year, will be the New York manager this season. Keane had resigned from the Cardinals last week, reportedly because of a disagreement with St. Louis owner Gussie Busch...
...Fists. After the first game, the Yanks wished they had stayed home too. "Damn," complained Pitcher Whitey Ford, watching the Cards take batting practice in Busch Stadium. "They're hitting them into the stands off their fists." The Yankees had all kinds of complaints: the dirt was too hard, the wind too strong, the fences too short, and the outfield grass looked as though it had been mowed with mortar shells. In the second inning, Rightfielder Mickey Mantle proved that his throwing arm was good as ever-by firing the ball clear into the grandstand on a play...