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Both the experts and the odds favor the Yankees. Although statistics give the Brooklyn club definite offensive superiority the American League champions have such men as Joe DiMaggio, Tommy Henrich, Phill Rizzuto, John Lindell, and Bill Johnson, who have won themselves reputations as clutch players, especially in the last two weeks...
There was more early-season pennant talk in the American League where the Yankees, paced by Henrich, had rolled up a solid six-game lead. At 33, modest, Ohio-born Tommy Henrich was having a new experience; he was the Yankees' big wheel. The great Joe DiMaggio had held that role for nine years, but a bone spur put him out of action before the season opened (TIME, April...
Yankee Spark. Henrich really took over as the Yankees' leader two weeks after the opening. It was a tight moment, and Pitcher Joe Page had been summoned from the bullpen to cool off the aroused Boston Red Sox. As Page began the long trek to the mound, Henrich stepped up to him and said: "You hold it and I'll win it." Page did his part. Two innings later, with the Yanks trailing, 3-2, Henrich picked up a bat and smashed a home run into the rightfield seats, with one man on base, to win the game...
...dressing room, Henrich is the most imperturbable man on the squad. Although he makes $40,000 a year, Henrich is careful how he spends it, wears store suits and shirts (DiMaggio was always "a custom-made guy"). Henrich never volunteers advice to another Yankee, but when players come to him for help his blue eyes light up. Says one mate: "He's the kind of guy, you give him a watch and he'll take it apart and put it back together, and then write the watchmaker telling him what's wrong with...
...Henrich, an accomplished tenor, is a member of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America...