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...boys from Ithaca are big. Their starting six consists of center Steve Cram (6-7), Bob McCready (6-5), Marv Van Leeuwen(6-5), Bob Berube (6-3), Garry Munson (6-5), and Ray Ratkowaki (6-0), Cornell has no super-star; its high scorer is McCready with a mere 13.2 average, but all of their players can provide some scoring punch...
...like something the Yankees would do. As the deadline approached for cutting teams down to twentyfive players, the management of the New York Mets coolly compared individual performance statistics and announced last Thursday that all-purpose Met Marv Throneberry had been dispatched to Buffalo in the bush league...
Thursday night the fans in the right field bleachers displayed a big sign reading "Bring Marv Back." Marvelous Marv was the exemplar of the Mets' incompetence, the avatar of their hopes. An itinerant athlete, cast off most recently by the Yanks, he was picked up by the scavengers fabricating a 1962 National League team for New York. He endeared himself by providing some of the season's few heroic moments (ninth-inning, game-winning, pinch-hit home runs) and some of the many ghastly ones (a long drive good for a triple, except that Marv missed both first and second...
Whether Marvelous Marv returns or not, the Mets will show a scar. The pernicious professionalism that entered through the wound could possible strike Miss Rheingold from the roster. And Casey Stengel ought to note that Marv Throneberry was not the only Met bearing the Yankee's trusted mark of professional disapproval...
Things were bad enough last year, when Casey Stengel's fledgling New York Mets earned a certain immortality by losing more games (120) than any other team in the history of modern major-league baseball. They had their laughs, though-like the time "Marvelous Marv" Throneberry walloped a triple and failed to touch either first or second base. But all that was going to change this year. The lineup was full of fierce young rookies, Oldtime Slugger Duke Snider (389 lifetime homers) was on hand from the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Mets' owner, Mrs. Joan Whitney Payson...