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...take care of itself." Faith in an Old Habit. Brooklyn will need its power. In the American League, the Yankees have made the same kind of runaway; this week, by beating second-place Cleveland two in a row, they clinched the pennant with a 13-game lead. Manager Casey Stengel has a cool, battle-hardened pitching staff to throw at the Dodgers: Whitey Ford (17-5), Eddie Lopat (15-3), Vic Raschi (12-5), onetime National Leaguer Johnny Sain (14-6). Backing them up is the greatest money pitcher in either league: Allie Reynolds, who at 34 can still pitch...
...Casey Stengel, going after his fifth consecutive World's Championship, is making no predictions. But neither he nor his team is conceding the Dodgers anything, and the Yankees have a habit of winning the big ones. Says Stengel: "I'm sick of hearing how great those Dodgers are and what they'll do to us in the World Series. We may fool a few people...
Tutor & Plan. On the field. Manager Casey Stengel has been his tutor-in-chief since Mickey became a regular. Casey, who once called Mickey "treemenjous" and hawked him to the skies, now talks of his man in careful understatement ("a pretty good ballplayer"). The job now is to keep the fans from expecting too much from No. 7 whenever he marches to the plate or trots out to centerfield...
...operatic Casey is not the Yankees' Casey Stengel but the Mudville hero of Ernest L. Thayer's famed old rhetorical war horse, Casey at the Bat, which builds up to one of the biggest letdowns in all literature-Casey's strikeout with...
...just eight days before, hitting lefthanded, in an exhibition game at Pittsburgh, he had become the third man ever to pole one out of the park over the right-field stands. (The others: Ruth and Ted Beard.) Looking back over his 42 years in baseball, Yankee Manager Casey Stengel said: "Mantle is probably the most powerful switch hitter the game has ever known...