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...SKELTON HOUR (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). Guests are Ginger Rogers and Jackie Coogan...
...watch-as it was last week, when the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers fumbled and bumbled their way through a wacky three-game playoff for the National League pennant. All it proved was that while the club owners could take the boys away from Coogan's Bluff and Flatbush, they could never take the old ways away from the boys. And while the transplanted Bums and Jints staged their comedy of errors. 20 million TV fans sat transfixed with horror and delight. Items...
...came out ahead was Giant Manager Alvin Dark. A teetotaling, tithing Louisianan who plays golf in the 70s, onetime Shortstop Dark, 39, sparked the Boston Braves to a pennant in 1948, did the same for the Giants in 1954, when he teamed with the mercurial Eddie Stanky to give Coogan's Bluff the best double-play combination in the National League. A pennant winner in his sophomore year as Giant manager, Dark runs the club with the solicitude of a tenderhearted drill sergeant. He never swears, but his temper is legendary: enraged by a 1-0 loss...
...home on Coogan's Bluff, the Mets even outdrew the pin-striped New York Yankees. In one hectic week, nearly 200,000 screaming, clapping, foot-stomping fans swarmed into the Polo Grounds to watch them lose three games to the Los Angeles Dodgers and another four to the San Francisco Giants. Banners fluttered in the bleachers-WE LOVE OUR METS: RUN SHEEP RUN-and the din was deafening...
There was no joy on Coogan's Bluff. The fumbling New York Mets, starting their first season in the newly expanded National League, lost their first nine games-tying a National League record for frustration. The $2,500,000 team hit a dismal .225. was better at bat than in the field. For the first time in his illustrious career, crusty Casey Stengel, 71, seemed unable to do anything right. "I start my best pitcher," he complained, "and what happens? Right away they get five runs off him." Somebody told Stengel that a photographer had been assigned to cover...