Word: barney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mantle clouted three homers to run his Series record to 18 (the old mark: 15, set by Babe Ruth); Bobby Richardson clicked out 13 hits to break a 39-year-old mark. Cardinal pitchers had an earned-run average of 4.29 (v. 3.77 for the Yanks), and Star Reliever Barney Schultz staggered through the Series with an ERA of 18. But St. Louis won-and with the most exciting display of guts, guile and footwork since the old Gashouse Gang of the 1930s...
...Horns. The Cards certainly did try. After 8½ innings, the two teams were locked in a tight, 1-1 pitching duel. Then Cardinal Starter Curt Simmons gave way to Reliefer Barney Schultz, an ancient knuckleballer who had knocked around 19 teams in 21 years. Up came Mickey Mantle, whose second error of the Series had set up the lone St. Louis run. "I was wearing the horns," said Mantle afterward. "I had to do something." Schultz threw-a knuckle ball that didn't quite knuckle. Mantle swung-and hammered a drive that was still climbing when it bounced...
Curt Simmons started for the Cardinals 3-1. Barney Schultz and Gordon Richard-and left after six innings with the score son suffered through the five-run eighth...
...Cardinals got four shutout innings of relief pitching from Bob Gibson and Barney Schultz, but needed three-run innings to overhaul the pesky Mets, who had taken an early 3-2 lead. Home runs by Bill White and Curt Flood helped pile up insurance runs for the Cards...
THIS business is like opium-once it's in your blood, everything else is dull," muses Paramount Pictures Executive George Weltner. The habit has proved profitable for him: last week, at 62, he was promoted from executive v.p. to president. In something of a youth movement, he replaces Barney Balaban, who at 76 becomes chairman; Paramount's founder, Adolph Zukor, 91, was named chairman emeritus. Aging Paramount lost $2,800,000 in 1962 when several films were boxoffice flops. Last year it was back in the black, and first-quarter '64 earnings ($1,041,000) were almost...