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Running the Roost. And what was happening to the Cards without Keane? Nothing so terrible. Another old Redbird was running the roost: Red Schoendienst, 42, the second most popular man in St. Louis-next to Stan Musial, of course. Stricken with tuberculosis in 1958, Schoendienst had part of a lung removed, came back to bat .300 in both 1961 and 1962. Red worked as a coach for Keane last year, and he obviously picked up a few pointers. He announced a midnight curfew, took to the field himself to demonstrate how to elude a rundown...
Then the World Champion Cards showed what they could do, choking off a bases-loaded, nobody-out rally in the ninth inning to beat the New York Mets 2-1. "We ought to be stronger than last year," said Schoendienst. Oddsmakers picked the Cardinals as no better than third choice (behind the Los Angeles Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies) to win their way into another World Series. But who cares about odds anyway? Last year on August 1 the Cards were still in sixth place...
Meanwhile Red Schoendienst, who played second base for St. Louis in the early 1950's, was named to manage his old club...
...Mantle has learned to live with pain the way most men live with shaving in the morning. He has an arrested case of osteomyelitis in his left leg. The cartilage is gone from his right knee. His right shoulder has been weak since 1957, when he collided with Red Schoendienst at second base. He has twisted innumerable muscles, and during the 1961 World Series, he bled through his uniform from an abscess on his hip. There is no telling how good a healthy Mickey Mantle might have been. Crippled, he has been good enough to win a triple crown (batting...
...Orlando Cepeda (.317)¶ The Milwaukee Braves have New Manager Chuck Dressen, a nonstop talker and one of baseball's finest tacticians, to shake new life into aging but still skilled veterans. Fatal flaw of the Braves last year was the hole at second base. This spring Red Schoendienst, 37, back from a bout with TB, is trying to plug the hole. ¶ The well-balanced Pittsburgh Pirates depend in the end on Pitcher Bob Friend, who had a miserable season last year (8-19). This spring, with Friend apparently back on the track, the Pirates ripped...