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...some Broadway musical, and you were my friend for life. It is no wonder that my parents became my friends for life when they took me see Damn Yankees, not only the first musical I had ever seen in the flesh, but one about the Senators winning the pennant to boot...
...season for it. No tutor ever had more enraptured pupils, or ones so in need of help. The team he inherited finished dead last in the American League last year. So Williams told them to forget the past, which was easy, considering that the Senators have not won a pennant in 36 years. He urged them to take up the team's new battle cry: "It's a whole new ball game...
...Senators talk that way; but if they sound like little-leaguers, they are playing like big-leaguers for a change. Last week, though they were hardly a pennant threat, they were holding their own in the tough Eastern division. No one is prouder of the new Senators than Williams. "They're picking and packing and booming and banging. They look great." So does Williams. He is making believers out of all the cynics who predicted that he would be back bonefishing by midseason. "I'm not going to quit and neither are my 25 ballplayers," he says...
...home runs to lead the American League. The following year, he cracked 28 home runs. When he was cut down in Fenway Park, he was batting .287, had belted 20 home runs and had played a major role in the campaign that eventually landed Boston its first pennant in 21 years...
...ballplayers, a switch-hitting slugger who could outsprint every big man in the league and most of the little men. That combination, plus his aw-shucks, farm-boy manner, made Mighty Mick an instant folk hero. In his first 14 seasons, he led the Yankees to a remarkable twelve pennant victories, won the Most Valuable Player award three times and the triple crown once, in 1956, when he batted .353, slammed 52 home runs and drove in 130 runs. His lifetime mark of 536 homers ranks only behind Babe Ruth's 714 and Willie Mays...