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There followed nine years as a player in the minors: tank towns, bus rides, bad food, but he was young and playing ball and that was all that mattered. Red Schoendienst was the resident second baseman for the Cards in those days, and no minor leaguer was about to dislodge him. The closest Weaver came was a single spring training on the big league roster before being sent down again to Class AA. "My biggest thrill was when I got into a game and somebody popped the ball up behind second base. I went back...
...homers. And along with the rain of homers there has been a positive cloudburst of singles, doubles and triples. In the first six weeks of the season, A.L. batters hit at a .253 clip, a 13-point increase over the same period last year. Says St. Louis Manager Red Schoendienst: "I can't decide if the ball is more alive or people are getting stronger. All I know is that the baseball flies...
Mindful of the Mets' conspicuous weaknesses, Hodges stressed basics?pick-offs, cutoffs, double plays?until the players had them down pat. "In the old days," says St. Louis Manager Red Schoendienst, "you could always expect the Mets to give you a few runs by doing dumb things. Now they make the plays in the field like professionals. The Mets have grown up." Perhaps most significant, they have developed a large measure of team cooperation and team pride. Says Hodges: "My main goal was to change the notion that everything the Mets did was wrong. I wanted them to do things...
Sweet Revenge. Impossible dreams have a way of ending. In that seventh game, Manager Red Schoendienst's cool, precisely professional Cardinals picked up and flew away with the Series, giving Boston only three hits and two runs, while clobbering five pitchers for ten hits and seven runs themselves...
...that anyone expected less. Though few experts picked St. Louis for the pennant at season's start, Manager Red Schoendienst's Cardinals were clearly the class of the league, soaring home with a huge 1(H game lead and the kind of statistics fans like to brag about-a .263 team batting average and five pitchers with wins in double figures. So it was hardly surprising that they went into the series as 3 to 2 series favorites, while Boston was still reeling from one of the most frantic four-team pennant scrambles in American League history. That...