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This elected prankster is not unique in the city. School Committeewoman Elvira "Pixie" Palladino ("She's got balls," Dapper says) achieved her notoriety by slugging Ted Kennedy at an anti-busing protest rally. There are plenty of clowns at places like Whitey McGrail's and Kelly's Tavern who help make the beers go down more pleasantly. By a series of accidents, the media and voters have launched O'Neil into perpetual orbit. A politician who cannot mobilize support, cultivate influence or avoid social solecisms, he was spawned by the social, political and economic problems that trouble the frightened white...
Leonard, who got the nod for his second start in the series from manager Whitey Herzog, went to the showers early after the Yankees peppered him with three straight hits...
Kansas City Royals Manager Whitey Herzog watched from the dugout as baseball's two leading hitters took batting practice. The air crackled as Hal McRae (.351) and George Brett (.344) sprayed hits from one foul line to the other, then back again. "Looks like fun, doesn't it?" said Herzog...
...supplement players developed at home, the team traded for experienced players in key positions. The elements were there, but it remained for Whitey Herzog to mix them. When he took over the team in July of last year, he found a talented but badly divided club of disgruntled veterans and confused younger players. "I held more meetings than Henry Kissinger my first month here," Herzog says. His biggest success has been in stabilizing the pitching staff, especially the bullpen. There, Steve Mingori, a 32-year-old reliever who credits acupuncture for the first pain-free season of his career...
Just then Whitey Ford was introduced. Everybody cheered. Then Yogi Berra and everybody laughed and yelled. Then Mickey Mantle and the Stadium stood and made that noise thousands of people make when they greet a hero. Finally, Joe DiMaggio's name came over the expensive new sound system, paid for by money that had gone through George Steinbrenner's fingers and Pat Cunningham's. The small enclosed city stood as a unit for the great DiMaggio. Governor Carey, Cunningham, all of them stood...