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...quartet of companies that make drums, banjos, electric guitars, violin strings and other musical gear, 2) a pair of small Los Angeles producers of educational films, 3) Creative Playthings, a Princeton, N.J. maker of instructional toys and 4) the New York Yankees, who have been teaching the first baseman's trade to their brawny but brittle superstar, ex-Outfielder Mickey Mantle, in order to preserve his ailing legs-and possibly get out of last place next season...
First step in the Yankee maneuver was to send Third Baseman Clete Boyer (salary: $27,000) to the Atlanta Braves, for a minor-league outfielder named Bill Robinson. That left the Yanks with an excess of outfielders and no third baseman. So off to the St. Louis Cardinals, in exchange for much-traveled Third Baseman Charley Smith, went Roger Maris-the man who broke Ruth's mark by clouting 61 homers in 1961. A natural loner who was more annoyed than pleased by fame and had been hampered by injuries for the past two seasons, Maris was scarcely surprised...
...base stealer in exchange for a couple of young infielders? The best pitcher in all of baseball in 1964, for two mediocre power hitters? The man who broke Babe Ruth's home-run record, for a third baseman who couldn't make the grade with the New York Mets? The way the mighty were falling last week in baseball's trades, Mickey Mantle could wind up in Chicago any day now, in exchange for the Cubs' clubhouse...
...Angeles Dodgers surprised everybody yesterday by trading shortstop Maury Wills not to the New York Yankees but to the Pittsburgh Pirates for third baseman Bob Bailey and shortstop Gene Michael...
...left with a small screen to compose on in the middle. But let us land on three of his gross blunders--one frequent. That one is the swerving track inward, which he uses as an illiterate uses exclamation points. It makes you feel like a lame third-baseman charging a bunt...