Word: charleyism
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...send Third Baseman Clete Boyer (salary: $27,000) to the Atlanta Braves, for a minor-league outfielder named Bill Robinson. That left the Yanks with an excess of outfielders and no third baseman. So off to the St. Louis Cardinals, in exchange for much-traveled Third Baseman Charley Smith, went Roger Maris-the man who broke Ruth's mark by clouting 61 homers in 1961. A natural loner who was more annoyed than pleased by fame and had been hampered by injuries for the past two seasons, Maris was scarcely surprised. "I can't complain," he shrugged...
...Crimson looked sharp in the field events, swamping B.U., 38-7. Ron Wilson won the weight throw easily at 56 ft. 10 1/2 in. Charley Ajootian was second...
Hardly anyone said anything. Ron Wilson, last year's big man, hovered around the 47 mark. Sophomores Charley Ajootian and Bob Benka broke 49. But it was a very disappointing afternoon. And things could be worse today when the putters run up against 54 foot men at West Point...
...team has had to come from behind so often (in combined first-half scores, the Cards trail all opponents 68-80) that St. Louisans have taken to calling them the "Cardiac Cards." One fellow professes never to lose faith. "What would you expect with a name like mine?" asks Charley Winner...
...first year as St. Louis' head coach, but he was to the manner born - so to speak - since he is the son-in-law of Weeb Ewbank, coach of the American Football League's New York Jets. Weeb is an accomplished coiner of aphorisms, which Charley is fond of quoting. His favorite: "Statistics are for losers...