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...Seven weeks ago, in the Virginia Park section of the West Side, a "blind pig" (afterhours club) opened for business on Twelfth Street, styling itself the "United Community League for Civic Action." Along with the booze that it offered to minors, the "League" served up black-power harangues against Whitey's exploitation...
...team limp-off is a mystery even to the participants. When questioned, players squint into the middle distance, managers scuff the artificial turf, and fans in Winnie's, a watering hole on Crescent Street in Montreal, stare mournfully into their Molson's beer. Says St. Louis Manager Whitey Herzog: "It's the craziest race I've ever seen...
Brewer Centerfielder Gorman Thomas set a similarly down-home tone for Milwaukee when he solemnly called the World Series "the Grand Ole Opry of baseball," a middle-of-the-country jamboree. It started out as a tale of two catchers. Ted Simmons, whom Cardinal Manager Whitey Herzog had bravely traded to Milwaukee in 1980, homered in each of the first two games that the teams split in St. Louis. Darrell Porter, Herzog's former catcher at Kansas City whom he had signed to a fiveyear, $3.5 million contract as a free agent, had the decisive hit in Game...
...spacious Busch Memorial Stadium, power is hardly necessary, or so Manager Whitey Herzog has demonstrated. Herzog has the team playing his special brand of running, hustling baseball -- "Whiteyball," as the locals call...
Managers' imaginations often come into play during streaks. Throughout the St. Louis Cardinals' eleven-game winning streak, Whitey Herzog's key strategy was to have Reserve Outfielder Dane lorg deliver the lineup card to the umpires. Meanwhile, Earl Weaver was tossing the Oriole clubhouse looking for his own lucky messenger to end the drought. ("Has Elrod Hendricks been out there yet?" Weaver moaned last week...