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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...
...fifth inning when the Cleveland Indians' Righthander Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuscahoma McLish was called in to pitch. Deep in an almost impossible situation, Cal tried every pitch he knew and thereby earned a place in the record book. In the sixth inning Boston Second Baseman Gene Mauch connected with Cal's best change-up for a leftfield homer. Leftfielder Ted Williams belted a fast ball into the right-field seats. Cal had only curves left. First Baseman Dick Gernert and Third Baseman Frank Malzone walloped a couple of them out of leftfield, and the Sox went...
Righthanders George Susce, Bert Thiel and Dave Sisler were named to share the pitching duties. The rest of the lineup will have Gene Mauch at second, Frank Malzone at third, Marty Keough in right, Norm Zauchin at first, Faye Throneberry in left, Haywood Sullivan catching and Billy Consolo at short...