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When starting pitchers insisted "I'm not tired," Casey would growl, "I'm not tired either, so I'm gonna bring in a new man before I get tired watchin'." Batters resented being replaced by pinch hitters-sometimes before their first turn at bat. Whenever a Yankee player made a mistake, Stengel would discuss it for hours with New York sportswriters-"my writers"-in that incredible prose known as "Stengelese." "You open a paper in the morning," Third Baseman Clete Boyer once complained, "and you read how lousy...
Some weeks ago, according to a story going the rounds in Haiti, Dictator François Duvalier sent a secret emissary to John Kennedy's grave in Arlington Cemetery. There the emissary collected a pinch of earth, a withered flower, and in a small bottle took a sample of air from the graveside. He then returned to Haiti, where he delivered the items to Duvalier. "Papa Doc," as Duvalier calls himself, wanted them for a voodoo incantation, hoping to imprison Kennedy's soul, make it subject to his will, and thus influence the U.S. State Department...
Nobody ever accused Milwaukee Manager Bobby Bragan of lacking imagination. At one time or another, to protest an umpire's call, he has 1) fainted on the field, 2) staged a sitdown strike in the middle of the diamond, and 3) announced, then called back seven successive pinch hitters before finally allowing the game to proceed. One day last month, to back up his claim that the umps were permitting flagrant use of the illegal spitball, he deliberately ordered Braves pitchers to moisten the ball, kept careful count of how many times (75) they got by with...
...felt the excitement most of all. "I've never seen this team so spirited," said Manager Bragan. How else to explain the fact that Catcher Gene Oliver, who hit only 13 home runs all last year, clouted four in 24 hours to win two games? Or the clutch pinch-hitting of Don Dillard (average: .200), who drove in the winning run twice in a week in the last inning? Or the fantastic spurt of Third Baseman Eddie Mathews, who raised his average 26 points (to .259) and accounted for 25 runs in nine games...
...first 2½ periods, the game -played in a soaking rain-lived up to expectations. Though not nearly so sharp as usual, the Browns nevertheless displayed massive power and diversity, scoring by ground, by pass and, in a pinch, by a field goal off the talented toe of ancient (41) Lou Groza. The All-Star offense was buried under about one ton of Brown linemen and line backers. Navy's famed Roger Staubach, the starting quarterback, was helped off the field in the second quarter with a dislocated shoulder. His replacement, California's Craig Morton, completed only...