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...Hofheinz's own penthouse, high above the rightfield stands, the carpet, chairs, telephones, even the toilets, are all gold-colored. Last week, tamping his cigar ash in a gold ashtray, shaped like a fielder' glove, Hofheinz peered anxiously out of his picture windows, awaiting his big moment...
...Hank Bauer's middle name should have been "Hustle." Maybe he wasn't a DiMaggio, but he could get to a line drive pretty darned fast and still make it look easy. He played a good rightfield, and at Yankee Stadium that isn't easy. He was a pretty good man in the clutch too. Many was the time he would literally bend over backward or fall into the seats in right to catch aspiring homers. It's a great pennant race this year. I'd like to wish Hank Bauer luck, but since...
...Bauer had put the Yankees ahead with a bases-loaded triple. But the Giants rallied in the ninth inning. Two men were on, two were out, and the score was 4-3 when the Giants sent up Sal Yvars as a pinch hitter. Yvars blooped a sinking liner into rightfield. The sensible thing would have been to play it on one hop, let the tying run score, and hold the other base runner. A misplay could mean the ball game. Rushing in, Bauer lunged, stumbled, fell to his knees, slid a good 10 ft. and stuck out his glove. Then...
...American players in a single game's lineup. Negroes and Latin Americans have displaced several established players on the Giants-Negro Jim Ray Hart for Jim Davenport at third base, Puerto Rican Jose Pagán for Ed Bressoud at shortstop, Dominican Jesus Alou for Harvey Kuenn in rightfield...
...face like a clenched fist and a voice that starts out tenderly-like an avalanche. He carries shrapnel scars, two Bronze Stars, and a card in the steam fitters' union, has done his share of knocking around-places like Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Guam, Okinawa. And when he played rightfield for the Yankees from 1949 to 1959, his specialty was knocking down double-play-minded second basemen...