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Another problem is at the mound, where Shepard faces the problem of replacing his number one and number two hurlers from last year. Dave Larking graduated, and Tom Boone, who is workbag on a thesis, hasn't come out for practice yet. The only serious loss in the infield was Al Martin, the club's leading batsman last year...
Neither team really sparkles defensively. The New York infield is the better of the two, unless the Reds play Leo Cardenas and Elio Chacon. But the Redleg outfield, especially if Mantle is below par, evens the balance...
...homers set by Ruth (60) and Gehrig (47) back in 1927. The pitching staff was solid: Whitey Ford was safely on the winning side of his first 20-game season, and Veteran Screwballer Luis Arroyo, 34, has become the finest Yankee relief pitcher since "Fireman Joe" Page. The infield was the tightest in baseball, and the Yanks led the league in just about everything that counted: runs, home runs and double plays...
...dust with razor-sharp spikes flashing high, Cobb gave baseball some of its most memorable moments. He stole 892 bases, 96 in a single season (1915). Three times he stole all the way home from first base, and once, recalls Casey Stengel, he scored from third on an infield pop fly: "Ty just waited until the infielder got ready to throw to the pitcher-and then he went...
...Kiddie Corps. Blasingame, who atones for his paltry .240 average with speed and spirit, seemed to congeal the Red infield. Hulking First Baseman Gordon Coleman, playing regularly for the first time, proved a surprise with a .299 average, 18 home runs, 55 runs batted in. Sober, balding Eddie Kasko developed into one of the most reliable shortstops around. At third, Freese. reputed to be a weak glove man, was fielding, as Pittsburgh Manager Danny Murtaugh put it, "like he had a monkey gland...