Word: yogis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Former Yankee Manager Yogi Berra: a $70,000, two-year contract as coach with the National League's New York Mets. Pocketing $25,000 in severance pay from his former employers, Berra became the third big Yankee name (with ex-Manager Casey Stengel, ex-General Manager George Weiss) to join the Mets-a clear indication that the Yankees are quickly becoming the Mets' favorite farm team...
Orlovsky was squatting like a yogi on the floor, typing out snatches of our conversation, misspelling every third word, but hanging in there as if without the typewriter he might just float off through the ceiling. I wondered what had held Allen Peter together for so many years and realized that, apart from sex, their communication must be not verbal, or visual like Allen's disrobing, but telepathic--in the spirit of the wordless interplay between members of a highly coordinated jazz combo...
...Dean Burch: Yogi Berra's reward was being fired for not taking the World Series. What would Burch suggest for the manager of a '64 political-pennant contender who strengthened his pitching staff for the race by trading Abe Lincoln for Strom Thurmond...
...Yogi Berra's pitcher, Rookie Sensation Mel Stottlemyre, had nothing wrong with him that a good defense could not have cured. In the fourth inning, the roof fell in. A single, a walk, a nifty double steal, bad throws by Shortstop Phil Linz, Second Baseman Richardson and Outfielder Mantle, and the score was 3-0, Cardinals. Out went Stottlemyre; in came Reliever Al Downing, who threw four pitches, one of them a ball. The others: a homer, a single, a double. Out went Downing; in came Rollie Sheldon...
Keane might not have to look very far for work. Back in Manhattan, the Yankees announced that Yogi Berra has been fired as manager. Who was the frontrunner for Yogi's job? Johnny Keane...