Word: yogis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...broken left wrist has mended. In the outfield, the Yankees' weak link is Leftfielder Hector Lopez, who not only has a poor arm but stirs prayer in the breast of Manager Casey Stengel every time he wanders after a fly ball. Behind the plate, both the Yankees' Yogi Berra and Elston Howard have arms strong enough to discourage any base-stealing ambitions of the generally fleeter Pirates...
...chanet should realize that the practice of yoga is Hindu through and through, and that a true yogi cannot be a Christian just as a true Benedictine cannot be a Hindu...
...bleacher heckler with the sympathy of a wife. When it comes to bats, he has discovered, ballplayers are as sensitive as violinists. He follows the major league teams with the vigilance of a scout, roams across the U.S. chatting about bats in dugouts and dressing rooms. When Yankee Catcher Yogi Berra complained that he was not getting enough power out of his bats, Hillerich checked up, found that Berra had an unconscious habit of turning the trademark toward the ball, thus hitting against the grain and losing the bat's resiliency. The solution: special bats made with the trademark...
...Tripartite Man. Benedictine Yogi Dechanet has no use for such Western Orientalists as Jean Herbert, who has written: "Nothing is simpler than to supply Western Christian names in place of Hindu in the treatises on yoga technique." Dechanet is also on guard against the danger that the practice of yoga turns him toward "the Self, the It, the Absolute, the Wholly-One, the vague 'Ungraspable' of Hindu mystics" instead of toward "the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the living God, my Creator and Father." What Dechanet set out to do when he first began to practice yoga...
Though the Christian yogi does not appear to be different from other men, "a trained eye may be able to recognize him by his gait, bearing, gestures or reserve." There is a seal on everything he does because he shuns habit and auto matic behavior-he is present with his whole being in whatever he is doing. The Christian yogi knows that he has gradually made his body into a faithful servant. "You order it (and it obeys) to help you to practise fully even virtues as great as faith, hope and Christian charity...