Word: houk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kidding. Ah, but Yogi was smarter than the average bear. While he was getting yuks, Yankee pitchers were getting the sign and the team was winning pennants-ten under Casey Stengel, three straight under laconic Ralph Houk. For fun and profit, Yogi built a bowling alley in Clifton, N.J., became a vice president of something called Yoo-Hoo chocolate drink, and prospered to the point that he could claim to be "half a millionaire." Stengel liked to call him "Mr. Berra, my assistant manager," and Houk promoted him to player-coach this year. No one could figure out if they...
...Yankee front office never kids. Owners Dan Topping and Del Webb started thinking about Berra a year ago, right after the 1962 World Series. General Manager Roy Hamey wanted to retire, Ralph Houk looked like the right man for that job, and with Yogi taking over on the field the Yankees could at least expect a rise in attendance. Even if they lost, Yogi was sure to tickle the turnstiles. For once, Berra was speechless. He kept mum about it all year long, just standing there in the first-base coach's box "observing...
...ANYBODY HERE BEAT THESE DODGERS? asked the New York Herald Tribune. Nobody seemed to know, least of all the Yankees. "I'll tell you one thing," growled Manager Ralph Houk on his arrival in Los Angeles. "We haven't thrown in no damned towel yet. We gotta start hitting soon, and I think we'll do it against that righthander-what's his name?-Drysdale...
...Ralph Houk maintained the classic, nonchalant attitude required of Yankee managers in trouble, but his team on the second day displayed fielding everyone had expected of the Dodgers...
Upon arriving in Los Angeles Houk took the un-Yankeelike action of discussing the team's deficient performances in a long session with the players, and the Yankees followed this chat with a most unusual afternoon of frustration against a right-handed pitcher...