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...Kansas City Athletics have trouble hitting a ball out of the infield, let alone over a fence. Owner Charles Finley's solution was to bring the mountain to Mohammed. He built a plywood fence in rightfield, only 296 ft. from home plate, christened the project his "Pennant Porch." Unh-unh, said Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick, so Finley moved the whole contraption back 29 ft. and renamed it a "One-Half Pennant Porch...
Died. Eddie Dyer, 63, manager of last St. Louis Cardinals team to win a pennant (1946), discoverer of Stan ("the Man") Musial in 1938; of gallbladder complications; in Houston...
...Fame. Famed, in approximately equal measure, for his 1) batting (.310 lifetime average), 2) versatility (he played first, second, shortstop and third), and 3) hypochondria (his teammates called him "Old Aches and Pains"), Appling loyally toiled for the Chicago White Sox for 20 years without ever playing on a pennant-winning team. "This makes up for it," he said...
Nobody ever accused the New York Yankees of having a sense of humor-until last week. Or maybe it was a sense of destiny. They had won their 28th American League pennant by 10½ games, but New York fans merely yawned-the impossible Mets had drawn almost as many people. Then the Yankees got shut out 4-0 in the World Series, and everybody cheered. There was only one thing to do. Last week the staid old Yankees took a deep breath and signed Yogi Berra as their manager...
...mysterious circulatory ailment called Raynaud's Phenomenon almost caused doctors to amputate the forefinger on his pitching hand.* But this year Koufax won 25 games, lost only five, set a record with 306 strikeouts, and was the key man in the Dodgers' drive to the National League pennant. Yet all that seemed nothing compared to last week...