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...bookies still picked the Yankees to win the second game. Dodger Manager Walter Alston's pitcher for this engagement was Johnny Podres, who at 31 is getting a trifle thick around the waist. There are those who joke that Bachelor Podres pitches harder off the field than on ("He's done all the things that Bo Belinsky says he has," goes one gag), but among his peers he has a reputation as a "money" pitcher who is toughest under pressure. Over 81 innings, he gave up only six hits and one run; then he handed the ball...
...Last week Dodger Physician Robert Woods disclosed that Koufax's finger had been saved by the use of four drugs: Coumadin (an anticoagulant), fibrinolysin (used to dissolve clots in blood vessels), Ilidar and Priscoline (both used to dilate arteries...
These historical facts explain the Dodger pennant and the high quality of baseball in the Series. Since the New Dodgers were playing the good ol' Yankees, though, the Yankee collapse is still mysterious...
Sites and seating capacities: Yankee Stadium, 72,000; Dodger Stadium...
Back in Los Angeles, Dodger fans sighed and waited for the worst. In nine years, Alston had delivered three pennants, two world championships, eight first-division finishes. But this was a time for heroics, and Alston hardly seemed the man to ignite any team. He was still the dour, noncommittal ex-shop teacher from Darrtown, Ohio, the fellow who struck out the only time he ever got to bat in the big leagues, the homespun country boy who played percentages so devoutly that the Dodgers paid a fulltime statistician to do his arithmetic. Every fall Alston signed a blank contract...