Word: stengel
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Winging into St. Petersburg with parasol at the ready, Major Stockholder Joan Whitney Payson joined Manager Charles Dillon Stengel for baseball's least auspicious event of the week: the launching of the National League's fledgling New York Mets. Asked if he thought he could alchemize a champion from the best dross that Whitney money could buy, Casey instinctively retorted: "I expect to win every day." Then, from the most voluble player in the league came an uncharacteristic halt in the Mach 2 verbiage. "Maybe," sighed Casey, "I'll be shell-shocked...
Subtler Discipline. Walking in Casey Stengel's footsteps. Houk was under severe pressure to produce a winner for the Yankees. "There's only one way to get ahead in this organization," Houk admitted, "and that's to win. It doesn't much matter what else you do, or how people feel about you, or what your personality is. Winning is all that counts." To tighten the shaky Yankee defense, Houk discarded Casey Stengel's platooning tactics, installed Tony Kubek permanently at shortstop, slick-fielding Cletis Boyer at third. To get more power into his lineup...
Forced to fall back on second-line pitching when Bob Turley developed a sore arm and Art Ditmar totally lost his effectiveness. Houk unhesitatingly moved Youngsters Roland Sheldon (10-5) and Bill Stafford (13-9) into the regular starting rotation. The high-strung Yankees, who had detested dictatorial Manager Stengel, responded enthusiastically to Houk's subtler brand of discipline. At a time when his every swing counted in his assault on Babe Ruth's home-run record (TIME, Sept. 29), Roger Maris bunted down the third-base line to squeeze the winning run across the plate...
...fluke. Koufax fanned seven Phillies, raised his season strike-out total to 269, breaking Christy Mathewson's 58-year-old National League record. Koufax has now disposed of 952 batters in 948 innings-best strikeout record in history. > After one brief season in retirement, former Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, 71, agreed to get back in uniform for one more year and exercise his gravel-voiced strategy from one more big-league dugout. Beginning next spring, Stengel will manage the New York Mets of the expanded National League...
...certain: the new magazine reads like the old Post. The fiction is the same tug-at-the-heartstrings stuff. Nonfiction will be "weeks, months, even years ahead of press coverage," says the Post; yet the new issue explores mainly old press favorites: ex-Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, Broadway Producer David Merrick, the "young widow." the "new" Japan. Only the touted "Revolution by Design" is clearly different. Twenty-two different type sizes and faces greet the reader from the table of contents page. Photos are sometimes surprisingly abstract. Despite the new look (and a nickel price rise to 20?), pledges...