Word: melee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over there," said Dodger General Manager Buzzie Bavasi. "I don't think the competition from the Twins will be any tougher than it was from the Yankees when we beat them four straight in 1963." Now that was too much-even for Minnesota's mildmannered manager, Sam Mele. "Cracks like that have a habit of coming back to haunt a guy," snarled Mele. "The Dodgers are in for a surprise...
...Dodgers expected Twins' hitters to quake at the prospect of facing Don Drysdale (23-12) and Sandy Koufax (26-8), Manager Mele quickly set them straight. "We've got power," said Mele, "and we can run, too." Even the fact that Las Vegas odds makers picked the Dodgers as heavy favorites (at 2-3) to win the Series failed to rattle the Twins. Newsmen noticed three signs hanging in the passageway between the Minnesota clubhouse and the field...
THINK. HUSTLE. WIN. Special inspiration for the Series? "Hell, no," laughed Mele. "We put them up last season when we finished sixth...
...Mele's only worry in the first game was that his players might get dizzy from all that running around. Don Drysdale, the Dodger starter, was out so fast that he could have watched himself on instant replay. Minnesota Second Baseman Frank Quilici opened the third inning with a double, then Drysdale fell down trying to field a bunt, and by the time the Twins got bored, eleven men had batted and six had scored-three of them on Zoilo Versalles' 400-ft. homer into the leftfield bleachers. "I had bad command," Drysdale said afterward...
...event, this unlikely statement certainly means that, in Mele's eyes, Pascual is not back in top form after his operation. Since returning this month he has been his usual self only once, in a complete-game one-run performance against Washington, Pascual in top shape is a pitcher in the Koufax-Drysdale class; without him the Twins have no such pitcher. They only bought Mudcat Grant because they never could beat him, and 21 wins or no 21 wins, his E.R.A. reads 3:30, the highest of any pitcher who will start in the Series. He has walked...