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...last time the New York Yankees played the Cincinnati Reds, they won 1-0. That was in April, in an exhibition game. and Yankee Manager Ralph Houk still remembers the occasion. "I had a little chat with Fred Hutchinson at home plate. We were both going badly at the time, and we wondered how either of us would ever win anything." This week Managers Houk and Hutchinson meet again at home plate, to conclude the managerial success story of the year. The Yankees are the American League champions, the Reds are the National League champions. and each team has only...
Monumental Tantrums. The news that their city was back in the series after 21 years of frustration sent Cincinnati citizens into a nightlong riot. By morning, 27 had been arrested on charges ranging from receiving stolen property (a telephone ripped off a cafe wall) to disorderly conduct. But the man who had engineered the excuse for all the excitement had no time to relax. Fred Hutchinson remained the glowering dugout pacer who kept the Reds going all summer long...
...Gene Freese, traded away by four teams in three years, hit 26 homers for the Reds. Reserve Outfielder Jerry Lynch, woefully weak on defense, batted over .400 as a pinch hitter. Catcher Darrell Johnson, a Yankee castoff, hit a lusty .333. First Baseman Gordy Coleman, obtained from Cleveland, found Cincinnati's bandbox Crosley Field to his liking, collected 25 home runs...
Particularly in his handling of Cincinnati's thin, erratic pitching staff, Hutchinson proved himself a master tactician. An iron-man pitcher in his own day (112 complete games in 169 starts), Hutch let his starting pitchers try to work themselves out of jams instead of yanking them at the first sign of trouble. "If I keep taking you out," he said, "you'll never learn how to pitch. You can't keep looking back over your shoulder at the bullpen." Forced to pace themselves carefully, the youngster starters worked on control, wasted few pitches. Little League Alumnus...
...Yankees are undoubtedly the strongest-hitting Yankee team since 1939 -when Joe DiMaggio, Charley Keller, Bill Dickey & Co. lowered the boom on hapless Cincinnati in the World Series, won in four straight games. Only three players hit over .300-Elston Howard (.353), Mickey Mantle (.317) and Johnny Blanchard (.305)-but Roger Maris slammed a record 61 home runs, Mantle hit 54, and no fewer than six Yankees hit 20 or more. So powerful was the Yanks' new Murderers' Row that First Baseman Bill Skowron (28 homers) found himself batting seventh in the lineup...