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1960 • Baseball Clip • Clifford Evans interviews Hank Bauer - Radio Broadcast · Retro Sports Radio: Classic Games from History

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  Hank Bauer, you spent your baseball lifetime at the Yankees and now it's out to Kansas City. How does it feel?
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  Well, I hated like the devil to leave New York Yankees. I've been with them 11 years and it was like home, but
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  after all these years I am returning to my real home. I've been gone 19 summers.
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  As everybody knows, Kansas City is my hometown.
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  Hank, you had a rough winter, a fire I believe. What happened out there at home?
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  I wish I knew, Cliff, but I was quail hunting this day and I drove up to the house about 6.30 in the evening
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  and all of a sudden I see my house on fire. Luckily, the wife and the four children got out alright.
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  Well, that's good news. Hank, let's talk a little about baseball. The New York Yankees, 1960. How do you figure them?
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  Well, you know when I was playing in New York and winning pennants in the World Series, I always said they had to beat the winner.
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  And I'll still maintain that fact, they still got to beat Chicago. I think Cleveland will be tough.
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  I think it will be about a four team race. Chicago, Cleveland, New York, and Detroit.
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  What happened to Kansas City?
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  Well, they're coming. I think they're in the building stage. They have been for five years and I think that one of these days
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  they're going to come up with a good ball club and give a lot of people some trouble, especially in that ballpark.
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  Hank, did you expect to be traded from the Yankees?
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  Truthfully, no. I thought some day it would happen, but I didn't think it would happen this fast.
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  I don't know what happened. I think Maris is a good ball player, but when a ball is done you give four ball players to get one.
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  I think that's given a lot of material to get one ball player.
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  What do you think got the better of the deal overall?
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  Well, I would say on paper Kansas City did, but you don't win ball games on paper. You have to produce out on the ball field.
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  Hank, as far as producing on the ball field, Stengel says that you're just about the best competitor he's ever seen.
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  Of course, this is no surprise. When we think of the war and your record as a fighter there, you're always fighting.
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  Now, how does a guy keep going day after day in baseball? You do get tired, and yet you never seem to show that.
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  Well, I've always played baseball that way, and that's the only way I can play.
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  I haven't got some of the finer assets that these other natural ball players have got, so I have to make it up in fighting determination.
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  Which certainly is a number one natural asset. As always to you, Hank Bauer, good luck.
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  This is Cliff Evans reporting, now back to monitor at Radio Central.