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...pretty rough afternoon all around for Houston. The senior second baseman was robbed of a basehit in the fourth by his Tufts counterpart although he did manage to drive across...
...Yogi Berra, Roy Campanella, Wes Westrum, and Del Crandall. Around the Keystone, the league's best combinations belong to California (Fregosi-Knoop) and Kansas City (Campaneris-Green). How many people could match Gil, Oyler, Johnson, Carew, and Adair with the pennant contender for which each is starting second baseman? Moving out to center field, the only player worth getting excited about is the White Sox's Tommy Agee...
...season's start was still three weeks away, but in New York, Mickey Mantle's conversion from outfielder to first baseman-and his subsequent stop of a sizzling grounder in an exhibition game-competed for attention with President Johnson's return from Guam. Column after column chronicled the comeback attempt of Yankee Pitcher Whitey Ford, 38, who underwent surgery for a circulatory blockage after a sorry 2-5 season in 1966. Ford was not going to sign his 1967 contract until he tested his repaired arm in spring training; the World Champion Baltimore Orioles bombed...
Just before he stepped into one of the netted-off batting cages, Captain Joe O'-Donnell stopped to talk about the team's chances in the tough Eastern league. The catcher-turned first baseman admitted that there just isn't much proven varsity talent on the roster -- but he said there were three or four players who could get their share of hits...
Perhaps the best example of the new "hungry" look on the Harvard team is senior second baseman Nelly Houston. The former Rhode Island schoolboy star has played regularly for two years, but last summer on Cape Cod broke his leg in six places on a blown double play...