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Damn Yankees. A musical miracle play by some madcap Mephistopheleans, Ray Walston and Gwen Verdon, turns the Washington Senators into home-run kings and pennant winners...
...Boston Red Sox Slugger (35 home runs, 122 runs batted in) Jackie Jensen was voted the American League's Most Valuable Player, became the first player on a non-pennant winner to win the award since Yogi Berra did it in 1954. Runner-up: Yankee Pitcher Bob Turley.
Liberally spiced with song-and-dance routines, the plot revolves around the story of a fan of the National Pastime who sells his soul to the devil for the chance of leading his team to a pennant victory over the Yankees. Improbable as the plot may sound, especially the part about the Yankees' losing the pennant, it does provide an interesting background for the music...
...field the Yanks were also in trouble. Pitcher Ryne Duren and Coach Ralph Houk brawled at a champagne party celebrating the Yanks' pennant won last week. The squabble was patched up after Duren admitted he had drunk too much, but the management felt obliged to keep a squad of private detectives on the players to make sure they stayed in shape for the World Series. In the ensuing comedy of errors, one gumshoe (he was actually wearing gum-soled shoes) shadowed Star Pitcher Bob Turley for three days and discovered Turley seldom drinks anything stronger than soda...
...declares Walston woundedly, "cause me more trouble than the Methodist Church." In the longest-distance phone call in cinema history, he gets hold of Operative Lola (Gwen Verdon), still infernally seductive at the age of 172. Lola does not get what she wants, but the Senators do win the pennant and Hunter is mercifully transformed back into Robert Shafer...