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This week, when Casey sends his team out after his sixth world championship, he knows it will not be easy. "Those fellas," says he, "they want to beat us. They never have. But I don't think their pitching is any better than ours. We beat their big fella [Don Newcombe] twice in the 1949 series. The first game it was 1-0 and Tommy Henrich hits one out of the park in the ninth inning. But that's what you need and I had DiMaggio and Keller and where do you find outfielders like that...
...Casey, everyone is a fella; the listener supplies names at his own risk...
OUTSMARTING the American League was a snap compared to the job Casey Stengel faces when he takes on the Dodgers. The Yanks are old pros who know the game too well to play it by the book. Casey's spectacular hunches will have them shooting for a big inning at the first break. Batters expected to sacrifice are likely to bluff a bunt to muss up the infield and then hit away; runners will gamble and go for extra bases. Infield and outfield alike are capable of making the game-saving catch, the impossible double play that rescues...
Pitchers are Casey's biggest problem. His two surest starters, Whitey Ford and Tommy Byrne, are both lefthanders. And no one knows better than Casey that all season long only one southpaw, the Cardinals' Luis Arroyo, started and finished a game against Brooklyn-and he lost...
...Bullet Bob" Turley, Casey's best righthander, can be as wild as an ensign with a .45; he has a tendency to aim the ball when he gets behind a batter, and may be a setup for Dodger power...