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...work. It was off to Baltimore for a game with the Chicago White Sox, then to Minnesota for the series with the Twins and out to Los Angeles for the games with the Angels. He talked to Hank Bauer and the birds, as well as Oriole General Manager Lee MacPhail, in the dugout, on buses, planes and in dressing rooms. And in the end he was showing symptoms of becoming an Oriole fanatic...
...Thor answers. He is all bituminous at heart, but he is hewn of anthracite. Bauer looks, says one Oriole player, "like an M-l ready to go off." He commands respect, he commands obedience, and he commands a certain amount of controversy. His own boss, Oriole General Manager Lee MacPhail, calls him "no great shakes as a baseball strategist" and says that he "manages by instinct." But Third Baseman Robinson, who prides himself on being a strategist, says: "On the plays Hank has pulled that I don't agree with, he has proved to be right...
...with sports writers, insisting: "They're trying to get me fired." Oriole players were openly contemptuous of Hitchcock. "What kind of manager does that?" snorted one player, after the Orioles dropped five straight, and Hitchcock cheerfully announced: "Boys, the beer's on me." Says General Manager Lee MacPhail: "I don't think everything that happened was Billy's fault. But a change had to be made...
...MacPhail put in a call to Yankee Owner Dan Topping. Was Yogi Berra available for the job? No, Topping replied: Yogi was going to manage the Yankees in 1964. Then MacPhail sounded out Eddie Stanky-but Stanky wanted a long-term contract. Finally, MacPhail found his man right in the Baltimore dugout: Oriole Coach Hank Bauer. Said Bauer, "I don't know whether I'm the first, second, third or 20th choice for this job, but I'll say one thing-if it was offered to anyone else, they were crazy not to accept. It makes...
Obvious Advantages. If the deal came as a surprise, it was obviously a good one for both sides. Topping and Webb had already taken tremendous profits since purchasing the club with Larry MacPhail in 1945 for $2,800,000. Two years later, they bought out MacPhail for $2,000,000, got that back and more when they sold Yankee Stadium and the land under it for $6,500,000 in 1953. All the rest was gravy. Then why sell? Easy. The gravy was getting thinner. Last year's attendance (1,308,920) was the lowest since World...