Word: whiteys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fists. After the first game, the Yanks wished they had stayed home too. "Damn," complained Pitcher Whitey Ford, watching the Cards take batting practice in Busch Stadium. "They're hitting them into the stands off their fists." The Yankees had all kinds of complaints: the dirt was too hard, the wind too strong, the 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...
Mike Shannon's home run off Whitey Ford boosted the St. Louis Cardinals to a 9-5 win over the New York Yankees in the first game of the World Series yesterday...
...Whitey Ford (17-6) will pitch the first game for New York, with Ray Sadecki (20-11) starting for the Cardinals. Two regular Card infielders, Ken Boyer and Julian Javier, have leg injuries, but both are expected to start. Yankee shortstop Tony Kubek, however, will miss the series with a sprained wrist...
...good notices on Broadway for her part in Robert Anderson's All Summer Long. She played the daughter of Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson in 1956's Giant, whose director, George Stevens, was so impressed with her that he declared her as promising a rookie as young Whitey Ford of the New York Yankees...
...priceless. "Bauer taught me how to dress, how to talk-and how to drink," says Mickey Mantle, remembering how he arrived from Commerce, Okla., wearing a straw hat and carrying a $4 cardboard suitcase. "I'll never forget the first game I pitched for the Yankees," says Whitey Ford. "I came flying into the locker room at 1 p.m. I had overslept. Nobody said anything, but Bauer gave me that look of his. I dressed and ran. As it turned out, I won the game. Afterward, Bauer came over. 'Whitey,' he said...