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...Yogi the Bear. On the bus carrying the bewildered Yanks out to the airport after the last game, poor Yogi Berra was so frustrated that he crawled all over Pinch Hitter Phil Linz for tootling a few bars on his harmonica. "Put that thing away," screamed Berra. "You'd think we just won four straight." Next day Linz was fined $200, and General Manager Ralph Houk declared the incident closed...
...Yogi Berra grinned at the news...
...baseball players get away with talking to their manager like that. But when the player is Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra will take all the lip he hands out. At 32 Mantle is at least a couple of steps slower than when he broke into the American League 13 seasons ago. He has a chronically weak right shoulder and his knees are crosshatched with scars from cartilage operations-the most recent of them last winter. He runs as if he were on stilts, and he winces every time he swings a bat. But Mickey Mantle is still the most valuable player...
...easygoing ex-Manager Billy Hitchcock, had a reputation for playing their best ball off the job. The first thing Bauer did was fine Outfielder Willie Kirkland $300 for being three days late getting to camp. ("Whew!" said Kirkland, and it sounded suspiciously like relief.) Then, just like Yankee Manager Yogi Berra, Hank announced that his team would observe a midnight curfew, would wear shirts and ties on the road, and would not be allowed to drink at the bar in the hotel where they were staying. "That privilege belongs to the manager," he said. Unlike Berra, he wasn...
...Yanks are wising up. They have Yogi Berra as their manager now; he starts sentences with "I may not be much of a manager, but . . ." They have a .189 hitter in the starting lineup (not even the Mets can match that), and they have a bullpen full of people who are reasonably skilled in the difficult art of throwing gopher balls. It is a slow process, but the Yankees are learning how to lose. So far this season, they have already dropped six out of ten to the sixth-place Boston Red Sox, three out of seven to the last...