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...Yogi Berra's pitcher, Rookie Sensation Mel Stottlemyre, had nothing wrong with him that a good defense could not have cured. In the fourth inning, the roof fell in. A single, a walk, a nifty double steal, bad throws by Shortstop Phil Linz, Second Baseman Richardson and Outfielder Mantle, and the score was 3-0, Cardinals. Out went Stottlemyre; in came Reliever Al Downing, who threw four pitches, one of them a ball. The others: a homer, a single, a double. Out went Downing; in came Rollie Sheldon...
Keane might not have to look very far for work. Back in Manhattan, the Yankees announced that Yogi Berra has been fired as manager. Who was the frontrunner for Yogi's job? Johnny Keane...
...years ago Yogi Berra was asked what he thought of Mel Allen as a sportscaster. "Too many woids," said Berra...
Pale Blue Filler. Up in the broadcast booth, he was indeed some rambler, take it from Berra. He could not resist telling TV fans in his cornpone drawl every last detail of what they could see for themselves. Moreover, with a journalist's eye for firsts and a statistician's mania for the minutiae of baseball, he was fond of confiding to his listeners that, say, the bunt that had just been witnessed was the first ever laid down by a left-handed rightfielder in an August night game with two men on base...
With two out and Shannon on second, manager Yogi Berra ordered an intentional walk for pinch-hitter Bob Skinner. Flood singled in one run and Lou Brock's double scored two more to make...