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Duty Calls. The only reasonable explanation for it all is a fellow by the name of Calvin Coolidge Ermer, 43, who took over as manager when Sam Mele was fired on June 9. Ermer's total previous big-league experience consisted of one day in the uniform of the Washington Senators, during which he went 0 for 3 at the plate. But he had served a 20-year managerial apprenticeship in the minors. The first thing he did was break up the locker-room poker game. Each night on the road, to make sure his Twins got their beauty...
...going to pitch the guy?" asks California's Dean Chance. "Earlier this year I jammed him and he hit the ball into the rightfield seats. So the next time I went outside with him and he hit the ball 350 ft. into the leftfield stands." Twins Manager Sam Mele says, "I think the kid could hit wearing boxing gloves," predicts that Oliva may yet become the first big-leaguer to bat .400 since Ted Williams-who hit .406 in 1941. "It is a lot of tough to hit .400," says Tony. "But everything is possible here...
Born. To Sam Mele, 43, the American League's Manager of the Year for taking the Minnesota Twins to the top, and Mary Clemens Mele, 35: their fifth child, second son; in Quincy, Mass...
...hitters (including a perfect game), struck out a record 382 batters in one season, and posted the lowest earned-run average m the National League for four years in a row. "Sandy Koufax is the only pitcher in baseball I would pay to see warm up," Minnesota Manager Sam Mele said before the start of last week's World Series. By the time the Series was over, Mele was wishing that he would never see Sandy again...
...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...