Word: yogis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mitch Miller Show (Sun. 9:05 p.m., CBS). With Yogi Berra, Sammy Davis Jr., Sylvia Sims...
...possessed more inherent drama as paralysis ended both the career and life of the great Yankee first baseman, but unfortunately, the TV treatment was strictly soap opera. NBC got in another plug for the national pastime with Salute to Baseball, which made a couple of daring moves by putting Yogi Berra in a ballet from the Broadway hit, Damn Yankees (he uneasily swung a bat while dancers pranced about him), and Molly Goldberg in a locker room (she clucked at the sight of baseball spikes: "Look at the poor boys' shoes-the nails are coming through the soles...
...only games played, the Yankees continued their winning ways by defeating Washington, 4 to 1, as Hank Bauer and Yogi Berra homered, and Detroit topped Kansas City...
...Wringing still a few more figures out of their record books, baseball's statisticians discovered that five of the best nine pitchers in the American League were lefthanders. Best of all was the Chicago White Sox's Billy Pierce, who had an earned-run average of 1.97. Yogi Berra, Yankee catcher who was Most Valuable Player for the third time, led the American League in catching errors. Yogi made 13 misplays for an average...
...Unpopular Side. Like Socrates, Koestler is a man with the disconcerting habit of following arguments where they lead. This latest collection of his essays (more notable: The Yogi and the Commissar} reveals that Koestler is still looking for an adjudicator in the long debate in which, as in The Right to Say No, he habitually takes the con. People pro-any-thing get short shrift from Con-Man Koestler. Yet Americans should find themselves stimulated by this tough controversialist. Some examples of Koestler's talent for taking the unpopular side of an argument: ¶ In Judah...