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...Yankees have an edge on the mound--unless Luis Arroyo falls apart. Whitey Ford (25-4) is currently the greatest "money" pitcher going, and Ralph Terry (16-3), Bill Stafford (14-8), Jim Coates (11-5), and Roland Sheldon (11-5) comprise the longest and most effective rotation in baseball...
Coach Norm Shepard will go with his best against the cross-town foes. Al Yarbro, right-handed ace of the Crimson mound staff, will be the starting pitcher. Yarbro has an effective fast ball, and a fine collection of curves and change-ups to go with it. He is 1-0 for the season and owns a perfect 0.00 earned run average...
Another problem is at the mound, where Shepard faces the problem of replacing his number one and number two hurlers from last year. Dave Larking graduated, and Tom Boone, who is workbag on a thesis, hasn't come out for practice yet. The only serious loss in the infield was Al Martin, the club's leading batsman last year...
...coordinate their planning and quickly, the report warns, California will be headed for harder times. "For we continue to have 1,500 new neighbors a day, a half a million a year; monstrous misplaced freeways; salty ground water supplies; park land scuffed and trampled like a pitcher's mound; a grey stink in the air. And like the great California grizzly, the slurb paws its way across that land of gold...
Handsome Profit. For Del Webb, who holds 46% of Webb Corp. stock, prosperity was slow in coming. Born in Fresno, Calif., he quit high school, became a bush-league pitcher until typhoid fever knocked him off the mound. Webb moved to Phoenix on doctor's orders, took up carpentry. Not until he was in his 405 did Webb get his big opportunity. He formed his own construction company, grew rich during World War II building military bases. After the war, Webb kept right on winning Government contracts, also moved into a variety of civilian enterprises, bought a share...