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Old Mellow. No team in modern baseball history has ever finished last one year and won a pennant the next. But there has never been a manage like Leo Durocher, either. Gourmet gambler, clotheshorse, man about Hollywood, Durocher was one of baseball's most controversial characters when he managed...
McGlothlin's 1967 showing qualifies as a comeback-although he is only 23. When he was 18, Jim tried out with the Los Angeles Dodgers, struck out twelve of the 13 men he faced-and never heard from the Dodgers again. The Angels finally signed him for $5,000...
It is also a pretty fair description of Eddie's sometime teammate (on the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants) and current chief rival for the affections of Chicagoans: Manager Leo ("The Lip") Durocher of the Chicago Cubs-the hottest team in the National League. Beating the Cincinnati Reds...
Nearly everyone in the line-up had a hand in the St. Louis assault and battery. Catcher Tim McCarver, whose lifetime average is only .278, banged out 16 hits in 36 trips to the plate to raise his 1967 average to over .330. There he found himself battling for third...
Signed originally by the Dodgers in Puerto Rico in 1954, Clemente was farmed out to Montreal in the International League, where the Pirates picked him up for $4,000 in the annual minor-league draft. It was quite an investment. He possesses probably the strongest throwing arm of any outfielder...