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...Spellman, he said, could have brought together at the same banquet table two political leaders "who have long eyed each other suspiciously and who have disagreed so strongly, both publicly and privately-Vice President Nixon and Governor Rockefeller." He went on to crack to this knowledgeable audience that Casey Stengel's firing was proof that "perhaps experience doesn't count...
...amazed--and in so saying I believe I am speaking for baseball fans, sports lovers, scholars, humanists, and freethinkers everywhere--by the ignominious treatment suffered by Charles Dillon (Casey) Stengel at the hands of his employers, the New York Yankees...
...double-play combination of Second Baseman Bill Mazeroski and Shortstop Dick Groat, who claims that his broken left wrist has mended. In the outfield, the Yankees' weak link is Leftfielder Hector Lopez, who not only has a poor arm but stirs prayer in the breast of Manager Casey Stengel every time he wanders after a fly ball. Behind the plate, both the Yankees' Yogi Berra and Elston Howard have arms strong enough to discourage any base-stealing ambitions of the generally fleeter Pirates...
...Yankees, fading Whitey Ford (12-9) still looks able to pitch two big games with know-how and his sharp curve, and Art Ditmar (15-9) has developed into a steady winner with his slider. But Bob Turley (9-3) now throws more benders than bullets, and Stengel may be forced to depend heavily on a 22-year-old rookie named Bill Stafford...
Vernon Law, a 20-game winner, will be manager Danny Murtaugh's choice for the opening game at Forbes Field. He will be opposed on the mound by another righthander, Art Ditmar, whose 15-9 record makes him one of Stengel's top pitchers...