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Against this rookie crew, Coach Bruce Munro will field a veteran eleven, of whom eight started regularly last year. Besides Hodnell, the number one center, the front line will boast Hank Holmes at outside left and Bill Lingelbach at outside right. Dick Fisher will play inside right and sophomore Ken McIntosh will start at inside left instead of regular Charlton MacVagh, out with a charleyhorse...
...something for that other fella in right [Hank Bauer]. I even used him as a catcher and I gamble and I lose [here Casey remembers a game with the White Sox when Berra...
...line, Munro will start Hank Holmes at outside left, Charlton macVagh at inside left and high-scoring Gray Hodnett at center forward. Dick Fisher, whose two goals won last year's Princeton game, will play at inside right and Bill Lingelbach at outside right...
Pinch-Hitter Eddie Robinson came in for Silvera and flied out. Mickey Mantle, hitless all day, slammed a screamer off Dropo's foot and raced all the way to second. It seemed a wasted effort. Joe Collins flied out, and Hank Bauer walloped a long fly to left. Minnie Minoso had a bead on the ball, got both hands on it-and suddenly it was bouncing behind him for another unbelievable error. Mantle was home, and the Yankees were still alive...
...into the tenth, Casey had his work cut out for him. Now Silvera was gone; so was the only other Yankee catcher, Elston Howard. Who could put on the mask and pads to help hold off the Sox? Once more, Casey's brain clicked and whirred. He remembered Hank Bauer in Quincy, Ill., in the Three-I League, ten years ago. Hank had handled the tools of ignorance briefly in those days as a busher. Besides, the ex-marine was an old pro, the kind of guy who would stop a hard one with his teeth...