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...torn muscles in his right arm pit. And then, last week -good grief! First Baseman Harmon Killebrew, Mele's star player-he is tied for the league lead in home runs (22) and third in runs batted in (70)-collided with a base runner and dislocated his left elbow. Killebrew's arm was encased in an inflatable plastic splint, and arm and the man are expected to be out of action for at least two weeks...
Born at the outbreak of World War I, Clark could pass for a somewhat haggard 35. A hand-on-hip, elbow-on-podium, lecturer, he speaks in a slightly lisped, pseudo-cynical side-of-the-mouth manner that a randomly selected sample of his female students agree is "cute." He smokes a pipe but looks far more natural with the Mariborough that is usually dangling from his lips. As a seminar leader, Clark is an instructive and incisive, interrupting a muddled speaker with an impatient "What is your point," or venturing a bemused "I feel terribly rejected" when someone ignores...
...resetting the club right now, with the idea that Sandy won't be with us." So spoke disconsolate Buzzie Bavasi, the general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, after doctors last April diagnosed the pain and swelling in Sandy Koufax' pitching elbow as a "traumatic arthritic condition" that flares up "under repeated stress...
...what about that trauma and stress? "He's still living with an arthritic elbow," warns Dr. Robert Kerlan, the Dodgers' physician, "but it has responded to medication." The main medicament has been cortisone. As part of his therapy, Koufax regularly packs his elbow in ice for one hour following every game, throws only lightly on his days off, and refrains from tossing sidearm pitches, which put extra strain on the elbow...
...Whose arm is still on the mend. He can now bend his elbow and make a fist, but faces another tendon operation to give him fuller control of his hand...