Word: yogis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Children's recordings used to find some of their finest inspirations up in tree houses and down in rabbit holes. Nowadays, they enviously twirl around the television screen. Nobody makes a bigger noise on Kidiscs than Yogi Bear or Huckleberry Hound. Accordingly, holiday record-shop browsers this year will meet the likes of Professor Ludwig von Drake (Disneyland), Quick Draw McGraw (Golden), Popeye the Sailor Man (Peter Pan) and Felix the Cat (Play Hour)-all of them shouting, giggling and bleating out jokes and songs with hectic abandon. But the children's market still offers more than...
...home runs, 61-54, during this year's race with the Ruthian record, last week outpolled him among the baseball press, 202-198, to become the American League's most valuable player for the second consecutive year (previous back-to-back winners: Jimmy Foxx, Hal Newhouser, Yogi Berra and Mantle...
Mickey Mantle was benched with an abscess on his right hip. In left field, Yogi Berra, a displaced catcher, fell on his sunglasses and opened a bloody gash on his forehead. Pitcher Whitey Ford bounced a foul off his big toe and had to hobble to the showers. In one game alone, the Yankees committed three errors. But injuries and bonehead plays only added a dash of excitement to the dullest World Series in years. Coldly and efficiently, the Yankees butchered the hapless Cincinnati Reds in five games, won their 19th world championship without even working up a sweat. Growled...
...staring at them, and his temper tantrums are monumental: enraged by the loss of a close game, he has attacked the dugout watercooler, ripped his uniform to shreds, and pounded a concrete wall until his knuckles were bruised and bleeding. When Hutchinson was pitching for Detroit, recalls Yankee Yogi Berra, "I could always tell how he had done when we followed the Tigers into a town. If we got stools in the dressing room. Hutch had won. If we got kindling, he had lost." But for all his anger, Hutch the manager is a gentle despot, careful not to dress...
...feel about you, or what your personality is. Winning is all that counts." To tighten the shaky Yankee defense, Houk discarded Casey Stengel's platooning tactics, installed Tony Kubek permanently at shortstop, slick-fielding Cletis Boyer at third. To get more power into his lineup, he shifted Catcher Yogi Berra to leftfield, made longtime Second Stringer Elston Howard the No. 1 catcher...