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...long fall-and fast. Hank Bauer's Orioles simply lost 13 out of 26 games, while the New York Yankees were winning 19 out of 22, including the last eleven in a row. After a listless sojourn in third place, Yogi Berra's pinstriped legions sniffed the green stuff and snapped to attention. So lame that his teammates winced every time he hit the ball, Mickey Mantle, that matchless pro, was still batting .303, with 33 homers and 102 R.B.I.s. Catcher Elston Howard went on a sudden streak, hitting safely in twelve straight games, and Roger Maris perked...
...Boston Red Sox wound up deadlocked for the lead at season's end-with the Yankees a bare two games behind-has the American League had a pennant race to compare. In five months the lead has changed hands as often as an Indianhead penny. Yogi Berra's Yankees, crippled as they were by injuries, have been in first place seven times; Al Lopez' White Sox, the punchless wonders, have visited there on eleven separate occasions; and Hank Bauer's Baltimore Orioles have tried twelve times to build themselves a permanent nest on the slippery topmost...
MacPhail put in a call to Yankee Owner Dan Topping. Was Yogi Berra available for the job? No, Topping replied: Yogi was going to manage the Yankees in 1964. Then MacPhail sounded out Eddie Stanky-but Stanky wanted a long-term contract. Finally, MacPhail found his man right in the Baltimore dugout: Oriole Coach Hank Bauer. Said Bauer, "I don't know whether I'm the first, second, third or 20th choice for this job, but I'll say one thing-if it was offered to anyone else, they were crazy not to accept. It makes...
...claiming that Hank had punched him and broken his jaw. That was silly; a Bauer punch would have broken him into little pieces. But Hank was still hauled off to a police station, photographed, fingerprinted and booked-"just like a criminal." Partly on the strength of Yogi Berra's now-classic testimony-"Nobody never hit nobody nohow"-a Manhattan grand jury cleared Bauer of the charge. Another sore point: the cavalier way the Yankees traded Bauer off to Kansas City in 1959 -notifying the press...
Yogi the Bear. On the bus carrying the bewildered Yanks out to the airport after the last game, poor Yogi Berra was so frustrated that he crawled all over Pinch Hitter Phil Linz for tootling a few bars on his harmonica. "Put that thing away," screamed Berra. "You'd think we just won four straight." Next day Linz was fined $200, and General Manager Ralph Houk declared the incident closed...