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FRANK TEPEDINO. You don't remember him? Aw c'mon! Tommy Tresh, hell, he even made Rookie of the Year. No? Duke Carmel, the next DiMaggio, or Bobby Murcer, the next Mantle? Horace "Hoss" Clarke, keystone man fielding like a keystone--ricochet off the chest and take it from there--him neither? But you remember Ralph Houk, kicking the dirt; it sticks in your mind, an emblem of an era of frustration...
...Yankee collapse seems to baffle Houk as much as anybody. "I've never been with a losing club before, either as a manager or a player," he mutters. Pitcher Mel Stottlemyre, a 20-game winner last year, is a 17-game loser this season. Leftfielder Tom Tresh, a .279 hitter in 1965, is batting .238. The team as a whole is batting .237. They have lost 33 games by a margin of one run, and they have been unable even to beat their old patsies, the Washington Senators and the California Angels...
...that down to the end-the Yanks grim and seething with pressure, the Cards loose, enjoying it all, and ever so apologetic for the liberties they took. In the fifth game, the Yankees got nothing from Cardinal Speedballer Bob Gibson but Ks (12) and goose eggs (8) until Tom Tresh tied the score with a two-run homer in the ninth inning. Now! cried Yankee fans. Sorry, said Cardinal Catcher Tim McCarver, powdering a three-run homer that put it away 5-2 in the tenth. "I was just trying to hit a sacrifice fly," he explained...
...fences too short, and the outfield grass looked as though it had been mowed with mortar shells. In the second inning, Rightfielder Mickey Mantle proved that his throwing arm was good as ever-by firing the ball clear into the grandstand on a play at the plate. Leftfielder Tommy Tresh misplayed an easy liner into a triple, Catcher Elston Howard was charged with two passed balls, and Third Baseman Clete Boyer watched a grounder trickle right between his legs-prompting a friendly note from Brother Ken: "No. 6, watch out for those hops. (Signed) No. 14." Cardinal Outfielder Mike Shannon...
...Yanks almost pulled off a last-minute rally in the ninth. After striking out Tom Tresh, Gibson gave up a long homer to Clete Boyer. Pinch hitter John Blanchard fanned, but Linx homered to make it 7-5. But while two relief pitchers warmed up furiously, Gibson got Bobby Richardson to pop up and end the series...