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...Yogi Berra grinned at the news...
...baseball players get away with talking to their manager like that. But when the player is Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra will take all the lip he hands out. At 32 Mantle is at least a couple of steps slower than when he broke into the American League 13 seasons ago. He has a chronically weak right shoulder and his knees are crosshatched with scars from cartilage operations-the most recent of them last winter. He runs as if he were on stilts, and he winces every time he swings a bat. But Mickey Mantle is still the most valuable player...
...Manager Billy Hitchcock, had a reputation for playing their best ball off the job. The first thing Bauer did was fine Outfielder Willie Kirkland $300 for being three days late getting to camp. ("Whew!" said Kirkland, and it sounded suspiciously like relief.) Then, just like Yankee Manager Yogi Berra, Hank announced that his team would observe a midnight curfew, would wear shirts and ties on the road, and would not be allowed to drink at the bar in the hotel where they were staying. "That privilege belongs to the manager," he said. Unlike Berra, he wasn't kidding...
...finish better than third. But in the first game, trailing 7-2 with two out in the eighth inning, the Orioles were treated to seven hits and seven runs by the accommodating Yanks. Final score: Baltimore 9, New York 8. "You can't win 'em all," sighed Berra happily...
...whose special talent is that he does not know how to field a bunt. In the eighth inning, he picked up a trickier-and threw the ball into left field. Then, he picked up another-and threw it into right field. Final score: Baltimore 7, New York 4. Said Berra: "It ain't time to worry yet. I mean, it isn't time to worry...