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...from Who's That? Centerfielder Albie Pearson is a 5-ft. 5-in. shortie who hits a golf ball better than a baseball, and sings rock 'n' roll on the side. Star Pitcher Bo ("No Hit") Belinsky is an unreconstructed pool shark. A retread catcher plays leftfield, and the Angels' double-play combination has toiled for a grand total of 16 other clubs. Manager Bill Rigney was sacked by the Giants, and General Manager Fred Haney was fired by the St. Louis Browns and the Pittsburgh Pirates...
...survived long past a ballplayer's professional life expectancy. His contemporaries - Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Owen, Jackie Robinson - are fishing, running bowling alleys, and collecting votes for the Hall of Fame. Yet Musial, his reflexes still sharp and his aging muscles still limber, keeps right on playing leftfield for the Cards with a young man's speed. And each time he uncoils from his familiar, knock-kneed batting crouch to hammer a single over second, he rewrites baseball's record book. Even today, says Los Angeles Dodger Coach Leo Durocher, "there is only...
...what your personality is. Winning is all that counts." To tighten the shaky Yankee defense, Houk discarded Casey Stengel's platooning tactics, installed Tony Kubek permanently at shortstop, slick-fielding Cletis Boyer at third. To get more power into his lineup, he shifted Catcher Yogi Berra to leftfield, made longtime Second Stringer Elston Howard the No. 1 catcher...
...Congress, and he can influence Congress itself through the members of his own Labor Party, which holds 70 of the 342 seats. Those 70 votes, added to the 116 of Neves' Social Democratic Party, give the new Prime Minister a bare majority. But if Goulart swings off into leftfield, his precarious majority may well vanish...
...more times (three). Berra can play third base as well as catch, and he is far more at home in the outfield today than he was one day in 1958, when a flyball dropped through his glove and opened a deep gash over his left eye. From deep in leftfield fortnight ago, Berra threw fleet-footed Tiger Al Kaline out at second base in a decisive play that paved the way for a 1-0 Yankee victory. Against Washington last week, Manager Houk actually sent Yogi into leftfield in the eighth inning for defensive purposes. Leaning into the grandstand, Berra...