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"No he dozen. My father knows Mickey Man'le, an' Roger Maris too." "Wow! Kin ya git me a autograph pitcha?" "Sure I kin."
No he can't. His father (Don Collier) is just an ordinary joe who owns a fishing boat in a Florida backwater and knows Mantle & Maris about as well as he knows Dun & Bradstreet. The boy, a lovable little liar called Hutch (Bryan Russell), is a utility outfielder in...
To get them, Hutch assembles his life's savings (87?), lays in the necessary provisions (eleven peanut-butter sandwiches), and shinnies up the tailgate of a truck bound for Fort Lauderdale, where the Yankees train. When he gets there, Hutch ducks past the doorman of the Yankee Clipper Hotel...
"Son," they want to know, "what's your name?" Hutch tells them, tells them the spot he's in-"So please come! Ya gotta come!" But Mantle and Maris only shake their heads sadly; and then Mantle, with a wisdom that few fans have suspected him of concealing...
The Yankees' sensational fall achievements, a 13-game winning streak, Roger Maris' records, and the demolition of the Reds in the Series, obscured the Tigers' own striking success. A rookie manager had brought a hodge-podge of rookies and has-beens up from the second division to a contending position...