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Those Dodgers who could not make the necessary adjustments retired, or, like Duke Snider who will end his days as a Met, were traded. Men like Sandy Koufax, who came to the Dodgers wilder than Steamboat, reformed. The younger generation is significantly better than its predecessors--just more serious. Only Maury Wills has any idea of what Dodgers are traditionally supposed to do, and even he makes his base more often than...
...will it be sufficient to say this was not one of your great Yankee teams. Yankees are good by definition; sometimes they are immortal. Less impressive Yankee teams have overcome better opponents in the Series before this. Take last year for example. The explanation of phychological disadvantage after Koufax's first game doesn't hold because a) Yankees are not supposed to be bothered by such things, and b) many of the same players had overcome similar handicaps...
Last year Drysdale almost succeeded in carrying the Dodgers to a National League championship without the help Sandy Koufax, but this season has oduced almost as many losses as wins the righthander. Bouton, who developed into a 21-7 starter this season, did even make a relief appearance in last year's series...
When the Cards looked out to the mound next day, there stood Sandy Koufax, No. 1 in the National League in won-lost record (23-5), strikeouts (284) and practically everything else.* The Dodgers' regular rotation called for Koufax to work the last game, but that fell on Rosh Hashana, and Sandy refuses to pitch on Jewish holidays. Alston also started hulking (6 ft. 7 in., 250 Ibs.) Frank Howard despite the fact that Howard was 0-for-19 in St. Louis this season. So naturally Howard crashed a two-run homer, and Koufax needed only 87 pitches...
...pitcher's year. Latter-day Fellers are joining the 20-game Winners Club as if it were the Kiwanis, and what used to be a charmed circle is turning into a vast roundup. Last week four more pitchers followed the Los Angeles Dodgers' Sandy Koufax, this year's charter member, into the club,*and at least eight others are about to ask for membership cards...