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...addition to the newcomers, the Mets have impressive residual batting strength in such World Series holdovers as Tommie Agee and Cleon Jones. "With the strong bench I have now," says Manager Yogi Berra, "I can rest one guy and still not lose any effectiveness. I remember one game where we had Mays, Agee, Jones, [Catcher Jerry] Grote and [Shortstop Bud] Harrelson on the bench, and we still...
...goes into the race. Bradley will be facing six other Democrats, including incumbent William E. Robinson. Paul M. Berra, chairman of the St. Louis Democratic Central Committee, noted that "it's rather late in the game" for Bradley to think about making the race...
...inning with a 2-0 lead, he had retired 18 consecutive men. Many fans in Fenway Park recalled Don Larson's perfect game for the Yanks in the '56 series. When the dangerous Lou Brock grounded meekly to second, it was easy to imagine catcher Elston Howard leaping Yogi Berra-style into Lonborg's arms...
...years, he liked to spend the off season at home, playing for Havana in the Cuban Winter League. Then, in 1962, former Brooklyn Dodger Outfielder Sandy Amorós, who saved the 1955 World Series for the Bums with his spectacular centerfield snag off Yogi Berra, took a very mean curve from Fidel Castro. The Beard decided that Sandy should stay in the bush league, kept him in Cuba for five years. Finally Sandy, 37, succeeded in getting passage for himself, his wife Migdalia and 13-year-old daughter Eloísa aboard one of the twice-daily Varadero...
...look to find a successor? One theory is that pennants are won by the men up the middle. But Cleveland's Joe Azcue is the league's only catcher to hit above .256 last year and major league catching has been universally weak since the glory days of 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...