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Whether Marvelous Marv returns or not, the Mets will show a scar. The pernicious professionalism that entered through the wound could possible strike Miss Rheingold from the roster. And Casey Stengel ought to note that Marv Throneberry was not the only Met bearing the Yankee's trusted mark of professional disapproval...
...What have the following names in common? Douglas MacArthur, Pierre Mendes-France, Gina Lollobrigida. Frances Perkins, Henry Ford, Billy Graham, Casey Stengel, Jean Monnet, Walter Reuther and Marian Anderson...
Things were bad enough last year, when Casey Stengel's fledgling New York Mets earned a certain immortality by losing more games (120) than any other team in the history of modern major-league baseball. They had their laughs, though-like the time "Marvelous Marv" Throneberry walloped a triple and failed to touch either first or second base. But all that was going to change this year. The lineup was full of fierce young rookies, Oldtime Slugger Duke Snider (389 lifetime homers) was on hand from the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Mets' owner, Mrs. Joan Whitney Payson...
...should come as no surprise that one can again expect to find the Mets toward the bottom of the senior circuit. Manager Casey Stengel, the only de Gaulle figure in baseball, might move his team up a notch if Choo-Choo Coleman provides power behind the plate and Los Angeles rejects Tim Harkness and Larry Burright invigorate the infield. Stengel has a sharp lefthander in Al Jackson, but he's no independent deterrent...
Last year, the New Yorkers squashed the Cincinnati Reds in five quick games. The season before that, Pittsburgh stopped Casey Stengel's bunch in seven, but not before Bomber bats had scored more runs than any other baseball nine in series history. The Pirates triumphed in 60 by pouncing on such chronic Yankee weaknesses as shaky pitching and erratic fielding...