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...American League, winners of 29 pennants and 20 World Series. But last season the champion Yanks plummeted to sixth place, and rival teams started hooting that they ought to change their name to the Toledo Mud Hens. "Don't you believe it," growled General Man ager Ralph Houk. "We're not dead yet." He was right. The Yankees still had some dying...
...harmonica after a particularly galling loss to the White Sox last August. Now the Yanks want to start the new season on a high note. Fixed to the $13,000-plus contract Linz signed for 1965 was a $200 check, with a warming little message from General Manager Ralph Houk that the dough is to be used for harmonica lessons. That wasn't all. Linz is negotiating a second contract with Hohner Harmonicas to plug mouth organs coast-to-coast, which he can do on any of 50 harmonicas given him on the banquet circuit this winter, including...
...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...
...liquid, and smooth as marble; on Miles Davis' So What, he spat and screamed in a breathtaking solo. Watanbe (who is really good enough to play with anyone) had excellent support: the melodic, unpretentious piano of Brian Cooke, Saltonstall's bass, and Billy Elgart's drums. Trumpeter Ken Houk still has problems making himself understood; but he is moving away from a slavish Miles Davis style and starting to do some interesting tricks with rhythm...
...Yankee front office never kids. Owners Dan Topping and Del Webb started thinking about Berra a year ago, right after the 1962 World Series. General Manager Roy Hamey wanted to retire, Ralph Houk looked like the right man for that job, and with Yogi taking over on the field the Yankees could at least expect a rise in attendance. Even if they lost, Yogi was sure to tickle the turnstiles. For once, Berra was speechless. He kept mum about it all year long, just standing there in the first-base coach's box "observing...