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Second baseman Skip Falcone provided one of the many pleasant surprises of the 1964 season. After a year with the JV team, Falcone won a starting position of the varsity and was the squad's fourth leading hitter with a .293 average. Falcone and shortstop Tom Bilodeau give Harvard one of the best collegiate double-play combinations in the East...
...three passed balls sail by and wailed: "I never did anything like that before." And poor Mickey Mantle-four times he threw wildly to the infield. Twice in one game he was caught off base. "The dirtiest trick I've ever seen in baseball," Mickey groused, after Cardinal Shortstop Dick Groat lulled him off second with a joke, then zipped around, took a throw and tagged him out. Naughty, indeed, but it saved a run-and the Cardinals in the fourth game. Trailing 3-0 at the time, the Cards quickly added injury to insult on Ken Boyer...
Yogi Berra's pitcher, Rookie Sensation Mel Stottlemyre, had nothing wrong with him that a good defense could not have cured. In the fourth inning, the roof fell in. A single, a walk, a nifty double steal, bad throws by Shortstop Phil Linz, Second Baseman Richardson and Outfielder Mantle, and the score was 3-0, Cardinals. Out went Stottlemyre; in came Reliever Al Downing, who threw four pitches, one of them a ball. The others: a homer, a single, a double. Out went Downing; in came Rollie Sheldon...
Last week 51 -year-old Mel Allen's protean output of woids dropped momentarily to zero. As the World Series opened, the Voice of the Yankees was in Stamford, Conn., watching the game on television with friends. In his place the Yanks installed Phil Rizzuto, the once Yankee shortstop who has been broadcasting Yankee games as a colleague of Allen's for eight years...
...know what else Archie Roberts does, aside from being your favorite all-American boy? Last spring he turned up as Columbia's .300-hitter shortstop, "the finest infield prospect in the East," according to Harvard baseball coach Norm Shepard...