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...Waspish Ted Williams, 38, the Boston Red Sox slugging outfield spitter, happily signed up for his 16th season in the big leagues, had no reason to be disappointed with a salary at least as good as last year's: a reported $100,000. "But I will be disappointed if I don't drive in 100 runs, hit 20 or 30 homers and hit .330 or .340. As you get older, you start realizing there isn't a whole lot of things you know better than baseball...
Much more interested in catering to his consuming urge to win than in winning friends, Robinson played anywhere he was told-first, second, third, outfield-and proved one of the sharpest spurs to six Dodgers pennants in ten years, as well as one of baseball's prime drawing cards. Said onetime Giant Manager Leo Durocher: "He can beat you in more ways than any player I know...
...feet, but he knows, too, that sooner or later every man slows down. "Besides," says he, "first base is a nice place to visit with people." He chats amiably with opposing runners, horns in on their conversations with their coaches. "You get more company there than in the outfield...
...year that tops Babe Ruth's 1927 record of 60 home runs, and Mickey might be the lad to do it. Can he beat the Babe? This is certainly a season for shattering sports records, and homer-happy club owners have done their bit by pulling in their outfield fences. With such help and such a hot start (at week's end nine games ahead of Ruth's 1927 pace), Mantle looks like the man to cross the 60-homer barrier and set the sentimentalists to keening John Kieran's farewell...
Still, in the 1956 Phillies the nucleus is there. Behind the plate, crafty Veteran Andy Seminick makes up in pure baseball savvy what he lacks in hitting; Granny Hamner at shortstop is a real pro; Richie Ashburn and Del Ennis belong in any man's outfield. As for pitchers, though, unless Southpaw Curt Simmons gets back his "bonus baby" form and until the trade for the Cardinals' Harvey Haddix pays off, Robin Roberts is the Phillies' only reliable performer...