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It was a long fall-and fast. Hank Bauer's Orioles simply lost 13 out of 26 games, while the New York Yankees were winning 19 out of 22, including the last eleven in a row. After a listless sojourn in third place, Yogi Berra's pinstriped legions...
Sir: Your story on Bauer and Baltimore [Sept. 11] was especially well written and highly interesting. However, instead of saying "Finley runs his ball club like a child playing with a Roger Maris Baseball Game," you should have given him credit for playing the best-the "Big-League Manager Baseball...
Bauer, naturally, did not get along with Finley. Nobody does. A cigar-chewing Chicago insurance man who made $10 million at his trade, Finley runs his ball club like a child playing with a Roger Maris Baseball Game. He battles constantly with sportswriters, rival owners, league officials. And he discards...
Which record depends. Ever since Commissioner Ford Frick accepted both the home-run marks of Babe Ruth (60 in 154 games) and Roger Maris (61 in 162 games), statistics-crazed fans have been in a quandary. Nobody knows whose pace to follow. Result: the once-consuming pastime of charting the...
With the exception of Mantle and Maris while they're there, and Bobby Richardson, the hitting has been erratic. Until recently Joe Pepitone wasn't even hitting his weight, and a Boyer base hit is rarer than Kennedy half dollars.