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...season opened, tobacco-chewing Manager Ralph Houk, winner of a world championship in his first year on the job, was two-or three-men deep at most positions. Between them, Pitchers Whitey Ford and Luis Arroyo had won 40 games in 1961. Roger Maris had clouted 61 homers; Mickey Mantle had hit 54; Catcher Elston Howard had batted .348. The slick-fielding Yankee infield was the best in baseball. The Yankees seemed a sure shot to win their twelfth pennant in 14 years...
...throwing a tortuous screwball. Bullpen Ace Arroyo retired temporarily to the disabled list. Taunted almost beyond his endurance by beercan-throwing fans and ill-equipped to handle the problems of instant fame, Maris was hitting an anemic .249, will be lucky to manage 40 home runs this year. Manager Houk had only one .300 hitter−Mickey Mantle−in his lineup...
...faces, especially Tresh, prevented New York from slipping too far behind when their great stars like Mantle were injured. Manager Ralph Houk refused to panic when his team ran into heavy weather in May and June. Drawing on the most impressive bench in baseball, he effectively platooned in the outfield Johnny Blanchard, Jack Reed, Hector Lopz and Yogi Berra, and the Yankees never fell beyond striking distance of the league lead...
...spring the Yankees took him firmly in hand, changed his stance and taught him to harness his wild, one-for-the-moon swing. Last week Boyer was batting .368-tops on the team; he had hit five homers (including his first grand slam), driven in twelve runs. Manager Ralph Houk moved him up six notches in the line-up (to second), and even Yogi Berra was impressed. "When you see anybody hit two homers into the upper deck in Washington," said Yogi, "he ain't what you would call an ordinary hitter...
...When we were about twelve, Johnny and I belonged to a group called the Ohio Rangers," recalls the Rev. C. Edwin Houk, now a Presbyterian pastor in Glendale, Calif. "We had taken a vow never to use profanity. One evening the group started singing Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here. I continued with the phrase, 'What the hell do we care.' Well, I can tell you, it didn't sit well with Johnny. He came up to me, white-faced and righteous, and told me to stop. I think he was ready to knock my block...