Word: mauchly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...waiting crowd set up a cheer. Hand-lettered signs bloomed: "WHO SAID IT COULDN'T BE DONE?" "RELAX, FELLAS-YOU'RE HOME NOW." A five-man band struck up Take Me Out to the Ball Game, and sturdy fans in the welcoming committee hoisted Manager Gene Mauch on their shoulders and carried him off at the head of a triumphant procession. "It's unbelievable," said Mauch, tears rolling down his cheeks...
...been strewn with heartfelt messages of encouragement from as far off as Puerto Rico and Hawaii. "Hang in there and fight," read one. "We have faith that you'll shake this thing yet," read another. Wading last week through a pile of such pep-talk mail. Manager Mauch shook his head in wonder. "I once thought everybody loved a winner," he said. "But I guess they love a loser more...
...Sagging Heads. The Phillies began taxing the endurance power of that love on opening day, when they lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Since then Mauch's team, a combination of players too young to be good and too old for ambition, has won only 34 games, a meager victory assortment widely diffused by 88 defeats. In a fruitless effort to break the losing habit, Manager Mauch has shifted his players into unfamiliar positions, paraded pitchers to the mound, used as many as 17 players a game, and even tried applied psychology. "Do what you want to," he ordered...
...each day," said Pitcher Art Mahaffey, who lost ten games in a row. "If you lose that feeling, you might as well quit." Said Veteran Outfielder Lee Walls. 28, who played in 22 of the team's 23 straight losses: "You start feeling sorry for everybody-Mauch, the young players, yourself. Then you fight the mood off and worry about tomorrow...
...spent $12,000,000 on promising players and once sacked a manager for losing a mere seven games, takes the benevolent view. "You can't match middleweights against heavyweights," said he resignedly. "Our pitching isn't too good, and we have no power. But Gene Mauch has been great about the whole thing. I certainly don't blame him for the poor season...