Word: shortstops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
Whitey Ford (17-6) will pitch the first game for New York, with Ray Sadecki (20-11) starting for the Cardinals. Two regular Card infielders, Ken Boyer and Julian Javier, have leg injuries, but both are expected to start. Yankee shortstop Tony Kubek, however, will miss the series with a sprained wrist...
...runs. They have Pitcher Steve Barber, who can't lick anybody else but has won three apiece from the White Sox and Yankees. They have Rookie Outfielder Sam Bowens, who hits one home run for every four times he strikes out (19 HRs, 84 Ks), and Shortstop Luis Aparicio, who leads both leagues with 50 stolen bases, and Milt Pappas (né Miltiades Stergios Papastedgios), who might be the best pitcher around if he weren't bored by the ease...
...strength was the talk of the league: in a playful scuffle one day, he popped a friend on the chest-and sent him to the hospital with a broken rib. His base running was murderous: "When Hank came down that base path," shudders ex-Boston Shortstop Johnny Pesky, "the whole earth trembled." His will to win was awesome. "It's no fun playing if you don't make somebody else unhappy," he once said. "I do everything hard." Even Manager Casey Stengel tipped his cap: "That fella Bauer, he had qualities of which there were four...