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...lost the first two games and won the series before," Ralph Houk said yesterday, but the fans in Yankee Stadium Thursday who watched the Los Angeles Dodgers glide to their second straight victory had much less confidence in Houk's ttered bombers. They jeered an announcement that tickets for the sixth and seventh games in the series were being sold at the Stadium...
...American League has taken a definite lead this year in providing fireworks, at least fireworks of the verbal variety. Boston's Dick Stuart made the first pregame bang when he publically let it be known that he was miserably unhappy over the failure of Houk to name him to the team. Stuart, who placed second to Joe Pepitone in the players vote, found his omission intolerable. Houk refused to get drawn into an extensive debate, but casually noticed that Stuart had been benched by his own club after a disastrous error in Yankee Stadium...
Manager Ralph Houk, however, has proven himself as a resourceful commander. For the first time since assuming the Yankee leadership he has had to work with a deflicit of talent, and he has labored skillfully. He brought Jim Bouton out of the bullben and Bouton quickly became the Yank's (and the League's) hottest hurler. Al Downing, a young fastballer who had been unimpressive in two previous Major League trials, was summoned from Richmond and pitched a two-hitter in his first game. Harry Bright, a ne'er-do-well for several clubs, transformed into a 300 hitter when...
...While Houk was re-tooling the New York pitching staff into its best shape in recent years, other parts of the Yankee games developed fortuitously. Roger Maris, batting .261 when Mantle departed, began to take Mickey's place as a reliable power hitter. Maris is now hitting .299, with 17 homo runs, and has won numerous games with crucial extra-base hits...
...Ralph Houk once said that only one thing could stop Whitey Ford from winning an important game--another superb pitcher. Over the past two years only a supreme pitching effort has been able to defeat Harvard's Paul Del Rossi, and that has only happened twice in 19 decisions...