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1968-Apr-28 - DET/NYY - Detroit Tigers vs New York Yankees - Classic Baseball Radio Broadcast · Retro Sports Radio: Classic Games from History

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  This is Retro Sports Radio. Visit RetroSeasons
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  .com for more sports history. The Detroit Tigers
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  faced the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium
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  for a doubleheader on Sunday, April 28, 1968.
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  Managed by Mayo Smith, the Tigers were off to
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  a hot start with a 10 -4 record, looking to continue
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  their success after falling just one game short
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  of the AL pennant in 1967. The Yankees were looking
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  to rebound from three consecutive losing seasons.
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  the first time that had happened to them since
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  1915. In Game 1 of the doubleheader, the Tigers
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  sent Joe Sparma to the mound to face the Yankees'
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  Bill Monbouquet. This audio recording is from
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  the New York Radio Broadcast, featuring announcers
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  Jerry Coleman, Phil Rizzuto, and Frank Messer.
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  White Owl made from patiently aged tobaccos for
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  extra flavor and mildness. Remember, you get
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  a lot more from a White Owl than just smoke.
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  And now with today's game, Jerry Coleman and
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  Phil Rizzuto and Frank Messer. Here's Jerry.
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  Look at the standings in the American League.
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  Detroit leading the league with a 10 -3 mark.
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  They're a game and a half ahead of Minnesota.
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  Two ahead of Baltimore and Washington. Two and
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  a half in front of the Red Sox. The Yankees in
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  sixth place. They're even up at 500. Seven and
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  seven. They're three and a half back. Followed
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  by Oakland, Cleveland, California. And the White
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  Sox, with a record of 1 -11, are 8 .5 games down.
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  Over in the National League, the Cardinals, who
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  won it last year, have put a little daylight
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  between themselves and San Francisco. They lead
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  the league by 2 .5 games over the Giants. The
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  Cardinals with an 11 -4 mark, the Giants 8 -6.
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  Three back are the L .A. Dodgers, and then comes
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  Cincinnati, 3 .5 down. The Braves, the Phillies,
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  the Pirates, and the Astros all four games back.
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  Four and a half behind are the Chicago Cubs in
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  ninth place, and bringing up the rear, the New
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  York Mets five and a half out. We mentioned that
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  Tommy Phoebus pitched that no -hitter yesterday
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  when the Orioles beat the Red Sox six to nothing,
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  and he picked a pretty tough ball club to pitch
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  a no -hitter against. And there was only one
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  real questionable play. That was in the third
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  inning when Andrews, Mike Andrews, hit a ball
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  that tipped Phoebus' glove and dribbled out towards
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  short. Belangia came up with the ball, fired
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  the first. Bill Valentine, a plate umpire, called
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  Andrews out, and Andrews argued so strongly on
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  the play that he was ejected from the game. But
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  this happened in the third inning, and of course
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  at that time there was... No thought in anyone's
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  mind that there might be a potential no -hitter
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  in the making. As it turned out, that was the
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  turning point in the ballgame for young Tommy
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  Phoebus. Brooks Robinson made a great catch off
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  a line drive from the bat of Rico Petrucelli,
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  a diving, stabbing backhander. And, of course,
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  that helped the cause a little bit. So we're
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  waiting now for the Yankees to take the field,
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  and while we do, let's take a look at the lineup
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  today in the American League. Cleveland and the
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  Senators are playing a doubleheader. They're
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  playing in Washington. Williams against Ortega
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  in the first game. Boston and Baltimore are a
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  doubleheader. They're playing at Baltimore as
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  the Yankees take the field here at the stadium.
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  Single game between the White Sox and the Twins
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  in Minnesota. Oakland and California also a single
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  game. In the National League, the Mets and Cincinnati
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  are playing a single contest. Houston and the
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  Cubs, the doubleheader. Philadelphia at Atlanta
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  will play a single ball game. In other action,
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  Pittsburgh at St. Louis, L .A. at San Francisco,
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  single ball games. Right now, the people here
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  at Yankee Stadium are standing for our national
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  anthem as recorded by Robert Merrill. set to
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  go here in this first game of the big doubleheader,
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  the first doubleheader of the year here at Yankee
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  Stadium. Bill Mamboket against Joe Sparma. The
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  Yankees, after today, move on to Baltimore Tuesday,
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  Wednesday, and Thursday, and then to the White
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  Sox and Chicago over the weekend, Friday, Saturday,
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  and Sunday. But they return to the big ballpark
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  on Monday night, May the 6th, Tuesday night,
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  May the 7th. Wednesday afternoon, May the 8th,
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  against the Cleveland Indians, led by Sam McDowell,
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  Max Alvis, Sonny Siebert, Leon Wagner. They'll
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  all be here on the 6th, 7th, and 8th of May.
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  And then a big one that I know that you'll want
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  to point to, the first greeting and the first
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  meeting of the year between the Boston Red Sox
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  and the New York Yankees here at Yankee Stadium.
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  That'll be a big weekend set two weeks from today.
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  Be a doubleheader on May the 12th against the
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  Red Sox. On May the 11th will be a ladies' day,
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  Saturday afternoon game, and then on May the
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  10th, a Friday evening game. Well, that Boston
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  Red Sox club will be in town, led by Carl Yastrzemski
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  on May the 10th, 11th, and 12th. Four games set
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  in three days. So we're all set to go. First
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  game getting underway. Bill Mambo -Kett. Right
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  now, Bill with a record of 2 -1. Ready to pitch
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  to Dick McAuliffe. McAuliffe, the second baseman,
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  batting at .220. Had a home run yesterday. Got
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  three of them on the air and nine RBIs. The first
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  pitch by Mambo Ketta. Curve is right in there
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  for strike one. Dick McAuliffe leads Detroit
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  in home runs and in RBIs. He hit his home run
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  off Jim Boughton yesterday. He was the only Tiger
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  ball player to hit home runs at Yankee Stadium
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  last season. He had two of them. Here's the one
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  -strike pitch as McCullough takes one on the
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  corner. Strike two, and you hear the roar of
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  the crowd. Oh, we've got an enthusiastic crowd
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  today. The biggest crowd of the year thus far
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  for Cap Day. And, of course, a fine attraction
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  with the Detroit Tigers, who are currently out
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  in front in the American League. Mambo to McAuliffe.
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  This one is outside. One ball, two strikes. Bill
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  Mambo -Kett making his third start. First against
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  Detroit. Gave up only two hits in eight innings.
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  That was in his last appearance on April 23rd
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  at Oakland. He replaced Downing after the first
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  inning. He won the ball game 6 -3. Downing had
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  given up three runs in the first. All right,
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  McAuliffe now is backing out of the batter's
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  box. Time is being called by the plate umpire,
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  Luda Muro. Marty Springstead at first, John Flaherty
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  at second, Bob Stewart at third. There's a curveball
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  fouled off left side back on the screen, and
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  the count remains one ball and two strikes. Yes,
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  sir, what a day for baseball. I tell you, if
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  you're in the area and you don't know what to
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  do, this is the place to do it. Come out here
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  and... Watch a ball game at Yankee Stadium. It's
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  a beautiful day. The weather is lovely. A fine
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  crowd on hand. We're going to have some action
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  for the next five or six hours. Here's the one
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  -two pitch to McAuliffe. Just missed outside
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  two and two. Nombo Kett, who goes for those corners.
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  Bill has a lifetime mark of 111 wins, 105 losses.
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  Against Detroit, he's 13 -13. Here's a 2 -2 pitch.
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  Ground ball fouled on the first base side. That
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  one going right past the first base coach, Wally
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  Moses. Tony Cuccinello coaches his third for
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  Detroit. And sign on the board, today's official
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  scorer, Maury Allen of the New York Post. Two
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  balls, two strikes. McAuliffe waiting. Mambo
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  Kett into the windup. Here's the pitch. Curveball.
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  Swung on a miss. Strike three. Mambo Kett serving
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  up a high curveball. Got away with it. So we
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  have one away and here's Mickey Stanley. Stanley
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  hitting an even 333. 11 for 33. Has three doubles
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  and three RBIs. Willie Horton, still not with
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  his ball club, will join them tomorrow. There's
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  a high pop, upper deck out of play. Strike one.
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  On deck, Al Kaline. For those of you who may
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  not be aware of it, Willie Horton has been out
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  of action nearly a week after a collision with
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  his shortstop, Ray Euler. Everybody ran over
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  to Euler, expecting him to be the one that would
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  be in bad shape, and it turned out to be Willie
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  Horton, who's built like a tank. Here's the one
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  -strike pitch to Stanley. Fouled off right side,
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  upper deck. And that one drifting off the facade
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  back into the lower area. The scramble is on.
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  We got the kids here today, all of them with
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  their caps, those who got here early enough to
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  get them. And every time a ball goes into the
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  stands, there's a wild scramble. Mambo Kett.
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  Ready. Here's the two -strike pitch to Stanley.
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  On the corner, he got him. Bill Mambo -Kett,
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  so far razor sharp, striking out his first two
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  batters, McAuliffe and Stanley. All right, Al
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  Kaline stepping in. Al batting only at 196, off
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  to a very slow start. He's got a double, one
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  home run, and two RBIs. Kaline, who's in great
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  health, has just gotten off to a slow start.
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  There's a curve that hits the corner. Strike
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  one. Al Kaline, one of the all -time greats.
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  Some great ballplayers on the field today. Some
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  have been around for many years. The one -strike
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  delivery. Fastball misses outside. It's one and
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  one. Kaline for Detroit. Eddie Matthews for Detroit.
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  Mickey Maddow for the Yankees. They've been around
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  for many years. Mantle. And Matthews with over
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  500 home runs. McKee at 521. Matthews at 509.
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  Okay, the 1 -1 pitch now to K -line. It just
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  did miss. And I'll tell you, Mambo wanted that
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  one. It was a slider that missed low. 2 -1. Out
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  there in the upper deck and right field, the
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  banners. Some with just the number 7. Others.
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  Hazlett, New Jersey. Then a number seven. Here's
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  a 2 -1 pitch. On the ground, base hit between
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  the third baseman and the shortstop. To Al Kaline.
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  A hard ground ball between Bobby Cox and Gene
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  Michael. First base hit for Detroit. First hit
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  of the game. A two -out single by Kaline. Here's
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  Bill Frian. Frian has been hitting. He's at 340,
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  batting in the fourth spot. Five doubles, a home
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  run, seven RBIs. But Bill Frein has been having
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  a lot of trouble throwing. The Yankees have stolen
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  five bases on him so far. Six, that is. They
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  had five Friday night, one yesterday. K -line
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  moving off first. Frein waiting. There's a drive
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  into left center. It's going to drop. Moving
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  over in front of it is Whitaker. He's up with
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  it. Throws the ball to Michael, and down to second
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  base goes Bill Freon. So a heads -up base running
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  by Bill Freon. And we're waiting for an official
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  ruling, whether that's a double or whether it's
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  a single. And Freon went to second on the throw.
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  Roy Allen, the official scorer. And they're giving
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  him a two -base hit. So Bill Freon gets credit
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  for a double. Moving to third base is Al Kaline.
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  And now here's Norm Cash. All of the action after
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  two are out. McAuliffe struck out. Stanley struck
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  out. Kaline singled. Freon doubled. Tigers are
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  threatening. Cash batting a 143. No extra base
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  hits. Three RBIs. A dangerous hitter. Now Mambo
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  Kett steps off the rubber. Wipes some perspiration
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  off his forehead with his left hand. That's his
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  glove hand. He took it out of his glove. All
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  right. Mambo into the windup. Here comes the
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  pitch to Cash. The curve is a little low. It's
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  ball one. Mantle is deep at first base near the
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  line. Clark back on the edge of the outfield
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  grass at second. Giving cash, oh, at least 25
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  to 30 feet of that foul line is Bobby Cox at
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  third and Michael shading toward second. The
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  outfield shifted hard to the right and deep.
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  Mambo Kett again. Here's the 1 -0 delivery. A
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  curve is right in there. He dropped a beauty.
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  1 -1. The Detroit Ball Club looks like a better
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  club against right -hand pitching than it does
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  against left -hand pitching. Cash, Northrop,
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  and McAuliffe are better hitters when they're
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  batting against right -hand pitching. Here's
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  the 1 -1 delivery. Strike called on the corner.
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  Just got it. One ball, two strikes. Wally Moses,
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  as we mentioned, coaching at first base. Yelling
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  something in to Norm Cash. This could be a crucial
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  part of this ball game. Mombo Kett getting out
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  of this inning could make or break the entire
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  game. So Bill trying to hold him in as run into
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  trouble. Runners at second and third. Two out.
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  One ball, two strikes to cash. Mombo Kett ready.
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  Here it comes. Fastball just missed outside two
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  and two. Looked as though Mambo Kett was merely
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  showing that fastball to Cash. Well, we'll have
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  to wait and see. What would you do? Here's the
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  big pitch. It's two balls, two strikes. Would
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  you curve them? Would you throw a fastball? We'll
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  know. Here it is. There's the curveball hit on
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  the ground. Clark moving into the hole almost
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  behind first. It's up with a flip to Mantle in
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  time. And the side is retired. So the 2 -2 curveball.
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  Gets Norm Cash. Play going 4 -3. For Detroit,
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  no runs. Two base hits. Two men left. And the
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  score after a half inning of play. The Tigers
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  nothing. Yankees coming to bat. fun and excitement
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  along the way as well as when you get there,
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  when you fill up with Atlantic Imperial Gasoline
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  and follow the Imperial Road. Forget about how
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  your car will run. Atlantic Imperial Gasoline
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  helps keep it running the way it was made to
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  run, wherever you go. Your drive will come alive
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  when you take the Imperial Road. Pack more fun
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  in your trip and get on the Imperial Road with
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  Atlantic Imperial Gasoline. They're ready to
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  go on the bottom of the first. Forrest Clark,
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  the first Yankee hitter, stepping in. He'll be
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  going up against fireballing Joe Sparma. Sparma
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  so far this year is 1 -1. And he's been a tough
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  cookie for the Yankees. He's 7 -1 lifetime and
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  4 -0 here in Yankee Stadium. So Joe Sparma has
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  been tough for the Yankees through the years.
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  Park waiting. He's batting at 167. Hits the first
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  pitch on the ground with his shortstop, Euler,
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  at second base. Flips over to Cash. One pitch,
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  one out. So Horace Clark, who is flagged with
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  that bad right wrist, one that he jammed stealing
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  a base during spring training, off to a slow
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  start this year. Bouncing out on the first pitch
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  of the game with a shortstop, Ray Euler. One
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  up and one down, and now Jake Gibbs steps in.
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  Jake hitting a 2 -11. Got one double. Seven RBIs.
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  He and Tresher tied for most RBIs for a Yankee.
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  There's a fastball and misses outside to Gibbs.
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  It's ball one. Cleveland and Washington scoreless
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  after one inning. That's the first of a doubleheader.
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  They're playing in Washington. Gibbs takes a
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  fastball in there. One and one. Don Wirt, the
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  third baseman. Euler at short. McAuliffe at second.
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  Cash at first. Free and behind the plate. Northrop
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  and left. Stanley in center. Kaline in right.
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  The defensive alignment for Detroit in this first
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  game. The 1 -1 pitch. High pop. Left side. Don
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  Wirt near the rating. He'll have a shot at this
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  one. Makes the play. Well, they're two up and
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  two down. Here he comes, Mickey Mantle. There's
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  quite a thing down here. It's a big umbrella,
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  homemade. Walking in the aisle here, and it says,
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  Let's go, New York. Let's go, Mickey. That's
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  an ingenious invention this youngster put together.
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  Mantle stepping in there. Sparma into the windup.
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  Here's the pitch. Curve is outside. Ball one.
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  Mickey tied with Ted Williams for fourth in the
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  all -time home run derby at 521. The next one
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  will put him ahead of Williams, and he'll be
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  going after Jimmy Fox. Here's the 1 -0 pitch.
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  It's low. Two balls, no strikes. Mickey Mantle
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  came to the Yankees in 1951 in his 18th year.
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  Still one of the great ballplayers in the game.
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  Farmer ready. Here's a 2 -0 pitch to Mickey.
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  Backs him off the plate. It's three balls and
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  no strikes. Farmer making his first appearance
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  against the Yanks. But a tough cookie, 7 -1 lifetime
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  as we mentioned. The 3 -0 pitch to Mickey right
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  downtown for a strike. Rookie, Les Kane, will
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  pitch the second game for Detroit and Fred Talbot
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  for the Yanks. All right, Sparma, the 3 -1 pitch
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  on the way to Mickey. It's outside, ball four,
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  and Mantle draws a walk. Of course, Sparma being
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  careful with Mickey, walks him. And now here's
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  Roy White, who's batting fourth for the first
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  time this year. Roy leading the American League
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  in hitting, batting at .428. Maddell, incidentally,
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  was batting at .255 with three home runs and
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  six RBIs. Here's Roy White. Two doubles, a home
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  run, five RBIs, six stolen bases. Maddell at
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  first, Cash holding against him. Worked way in
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  at third base. White will bunt. The pitch to
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  Roy is low for a ball. Roy White, with all of
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  his diverse skills, like he can bunt, he can
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  run, beat out a base hit, a two -hopper, and
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  occasionally will unload one. A very versatile
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  man in that number four spot, choking way up
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  in the bat. Here's Farmer's pitch. Swung on and
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  missed. Gets away from Bill Frehan, but Mantle
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  does not go. So it's one ball, one strike. Still
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  plenty of time for much of the action here at
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  Yankee Stadium. The first game just getting underway.
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  We're in the bottom of the first. We've got another
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  one to go. Big doubleheader, and the weatherman,
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  he shined down on us today. Beautiful day. Here's
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  the 1 -1 pitch. White hits a sharp one -hopper
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  to the second baseman, McAuliffe. He's over to
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  first with it, and the side is retired. That
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  ball was well hit, but right to McAuliffe. No
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  runs, no hits, no errors. One man left. And the
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  score after one full inning of play, Detroit
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  nothing, Yankees nothing. Say, here's the White
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  Owl girl. Let me ask you something. What do you
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  think about Major League Baseball? I think they
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  should make every stadium twice as large. Then
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  you could have twice as many people at every
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  game. But just what's that going to do? So many
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  fans here are smoking White Owl. And if you had
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  twice as many men here... Why, twice as many
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  men would be enjoying White Owl. Look around.
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  Rangers, Invincibles, New Yorkers. Why, they're
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  all over. Just think. Twice as many men enjoying
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  that slow -aged White Owl tobacco. It's wonderful
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  to give that mild White Owl taste. One more thing.
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  Who do you think will be the big winner today?
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  Any man who lights up a White Owl. Because he'll
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  discover something. You get a lot more from a
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  white owl than just smoke. I've got to hear that
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  last line again. You get a lot more from a white
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  owl than just smoke. Jim Northrup, Don Wood,
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  and Ray Euler will go up against Bill Mambo -Kett
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  as we go into the top of the second inning in
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  this first ballgame of the doubleheader. No score.
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  It's Mombo Kett against Farmer. Mombo Kett, who
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  was released by Detroit, this was last year,
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  and he sat by that telephone for three weeks
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  before signing up for the Yankees. Northrop takes
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  the fastball right in there, strike one. Jim
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  batting an even 200. Got a double, a home run,
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  and four RBIs. Mambo Kett again to Northrop.
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  It's inside this time. One -on -one. Mambo Kett's
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  been around a while. Started with the Red Sox
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  back in 1958. All right, Bill Reddy. Here's the
• 27:01
  one -one pitch. And Northrop takes this one inside.
• 27:04
  Two balls and one strike. Jim Northrop, a very
• 27:07
  pleasant young man. He looked prematurely gray.
• 27:11
  He said he was getting gray when he was in high
• 27:13
  school. It's only 28. Takes a curve on the corner.
• 27:17
  2 -2, and there's a big, slow curveball. Northrop,
• 27:24
  6 '2", 190. Had a fine year last year with the
• 27:29
  Tigers, batting 271. He's improved in each and
• 27:34
  every year that he's been with Detroit. Although
• 27:37
  this season, off to somewhat of a slow start.
• 27:41
  Here's a 2 -2 pitch by Mambo. Changeup in the
• 27:43
  dirt. Full count. 65 Northrup. About at 205.
• 27:49
  Then he went to 265 and 66. And last year, 271.
• 27:54
  That's 10 home runs and 61 RBIs. Dangerous hitter.
• 28:00
  Hits all fields and can pull a ball if it's slow.
• 28:03
  In other words, he doesn't pull much fastballs,
• 28:05
  but he'll pull that breaking pitch. There's a
• 28:08
  foul back. Count holds three balls and two strikes.
• 28:17
  Bill Robinson in center field is shading him
• 28:19
  to the left of second base as though he were
• 28:21
  a right -handed hitter. If he gets a hold of
• 28:25
  that curveball, he'll pull everybody around.
• 28:28
  White giving him a big chunk of that right field
• 28:30
  line. Whitaker playing him toward the left field
• 28:34
  foul line. Here's the payoff pitch. Curveball
• 28:37
  hit on the fifth foul toward the first base side.
• 28:41
  Wally Moses. Yankee batting coach and a Yankee
• 28:46
  first base coach picks it up and throws it back
• 28:49
  to Mombo Kett. The ball that Northrop just swung
• 28:53
  at was well inside and actually looked like it
• 28:55
  hit him not more than a few inches above the
• 28:57
  fist. Just dribbled out about 40 feet on the
• 29:02
  grass, foul territory toward first base. Northrop
• 29:07
  waiting. Here's the payoff pitch again. Curveball
• 29:09
  hit on the ground to Mantle at first. Clips to
• 29:12
  Mambo Kett in time when we have one away. So
• 29:17
  Mambo Kett running the count to three balls and
• 29:21
  two strikes, which you don't see too often. Gets
• 29:23
  Northrop on a ground out to Mantle. And here
• 29:27
  comes Don Wirt. Batting at 240. Two doubles and
• 29:31
  four RBIs. Don Wirt. We've said it before, we'll
• 29:41
  say it again, an underrated ball player, but
• 29:43
  I think suddenly has begun to get the recognition
• 29:47
  that he deserves. There's a fastball that's high
• 29:49
  and tight, ball one. You know, Gil McDougald,
• 29:52
  when he played for the Yankees, was one of the
• 29:54
  great Yankee infielders, really one of the truly
• 29:57
  great ones, and yet seemed to go unnoticed. Here's
• 30:01
  the 1 -0 pitch, where it swings and misses, strike
• 30:03
  one. McDougald played 10 years for the Yankees.
• 30:09
  And was on championship clubs of three positions.
• 30:12
  Third base, second base, and shortstop. One of
• 30:15
  the all -time great infielders. Old Magoo Goo,
• 30:19
  as they called him. Here's the 1 -1 pitch to
• 30:21
  where it's now. It's low. Two balls and a strike.
• 30:26
  Funny how some ballplayers will do that. Some
• 30:30
  just stand out. They're exciting. Sometimes they're
• 30:32
  overrated because they appeal to the fans and
• 30:35
  to the newspapermen. Others just go about their
• 30:38
  business, get the job done, but do it quietly.
• 30:41
  Here's a 2 -1 pitch to Ward. Bunts at it, misses.
• 30:44
  It's fouled at the plate. It's 2 -2. We're in
• 30:53
  the second inning. No score in this first ballgame
• 30:55
  of the doubleheader. Two balls, two strikes to
• 30:59
  Don Ward. Behind him, the shortstop, Ray Euler.
• 31:05
  Mombo Kett. Throwing a lot of pitches so far.
• 31:07
  Here's the 2 -2 delivery to Wirth. Got him on
• 31:10
  the corner. Strike three. And that is strikeout
• 31:14
  number three. And while we wait for Euler to
• 31:16
  come up, it's New York Yankee baseball. Let's
• 31:19
  pause for station identification. Hi, this is
• 31:27
  Jerry Ducey. Join me for my telephone talk show
• 31:30
  weeknights here at 810 on your dial, WGY Schenectady.
• 31:35
  Two down, nobody on. Here's Ray Euler, who is
• 31:38
  red hot in this series. Got to get 220 right
• 31:41
  now. Swings and misses at a fastball. Strike
• 31:43
  one. Ray Euler. Four for six in the first two
• 31:59
  games against the Yankees. Two doubles in those
• 32:02
  four base hits. He's waiting. There's a dribbler
• 32:05
  towards third. This is going to be a base hit.
• 32:07
  Euler digging. Mambo can't do anything with it.
• 32:11
  And Ray Euler gets himself a scratch single down
• 32:14
  the third base side. Boy, those are the kind
• 32:19
  you like to get because you get robbed of so
• 32:23
  many well -hit balls that when you get a scratch
• 32:26
  hit like that, it kind of makes you feel a little
• 32:29
  bit good. Here's Joe Farman out of the picture.
• 32:33
  Not a bad hitter. He's one for six. Takes a big
• 32:36
  swing. He can be dangerous once in a while. Stands
• 32:39
  up on the plate with a closed stance. Pulls the
• 32:48
  bat right on the end. He's waiting as Mambo Kett
• 32:55
  comes set. The pitch to Sparma is a curve that's
• 32:59
  outside. Ball one. Farmer played football at
• 33:16
  Ohio State. Then went to baseball. Pitch to Joe,
• 33:21
  a swung on, a missed, and it's strike one. One
• 33:24
  ball and one strike to Farmer. Two outs. No score
• 33:28
  on the ball game, top of the second inning. We're
• 33:31
  here at Yankee Stadium, and it's cap day, and
• 33:34
  the biggest crowd of the year on hand. Mambo
• 33:42
  to Farmer. Slider missed outside, 2 -1. Well,
• 33:48
  that first game in Washington after two innings,
• 33:50
  the Indians nothing, Senators nothing. That's
• 33:57
  all the action we have right now in either the
• 33:59
  American or the National with the exception of
• 34:01
  the game here in New York right now. Here's a
• 34:04
  2 -1 pitch to Sparma. Swung on, a miss, strike
• 34:07
  two. Two balls, two strikes. And we mention again
• 34:12
  that Mambo Kett has been throwing a lot of pitches.
• 34:14
  In other words, he's not getting rid of the hitters
• 34:16
  in a hurry. He's run the count to 3 -2, 2 -2
• 34:20
  on many of the batters. And this, as the game
• 34:23
  goes on, has a tendency to tire you. All right,
• 34:29
  Sparma, the pitcher, is waiting. Euler, the shortstop,
• 34:32
  moving off first. Here's the pitch. A one -hopper.
• 34:34
  Michael has it. Races to the bag. Forces Euler
• 34:38
  at second base. And the side is retired. No runs,
• 34:43
  a base hit, one left, and the score after an
• 34:45
  inning and a half, Detroit nothing, Yankees nothing.
• 34:51
  The traveling smooth on the Imperial Road with
• 34:55
  Atlantic Imperial to make the going more fun.
• 34:59
  That may seem like a lot to expect from gasoline,
• 35:02
  but Atlantic Imperial isn't just any gasoline,
• 35:05
  it's the clean carburetor gasoline. It cleans
• 35:09
  your carburetor as you drive and keeps it clean.
• 35:13
  That can do a lot to increase your driving pleasure
• 35:15
  because dirt deposits in the throttle plate area
• 35:18
  are a common cause of stalling, rough idling,
• 35:22
  and poor acceleration. Problems you shouldn't
• 35:25
  have to put up with. Atlantic Imperial won't
• 35:27
  tolerate troublesome throttle plate deposits.
• 35:30
  It dissolves them and washes them harmlessly
• 35:33
  away. Then... Wherever you drive, you're on the
• 35:37
  Imperial Road, where every trip's a pleasure
• 35:39
  trip. So come on in. Get on the Imperial Road
• 35:43
  with Atlantic Imperial, the clean carburetor
• 35:47
  gasoline. In the last half of the second inning,
• 35:58
  for the Yankees, it'll be Bill Robinson, Steve
• 36:00
  Whitaker, and Bobby Cox. Robbie hitting a 214,
• 36:07
  9 for 42, has a couple of doubles, one triple,
• 36:10
  two RBIs. Bill Robinson, the right -hander, facing
• 36:19
  the fireballing right -hander, Joe Sparma. Defense
• 36:25
  straightaway, Robbie hits the ball to all fields,
• 36:27
  got good power when he gets a hold of it. Farm
• 36:31
  into the wind. Up the pitch to Robinson is a
• 36:33
  curve that's low for a ball. Robinson has power,
• 36:39
  although he's not a home run hitter in that sense.
• 36:41
  He hits the ball sharply into the gap. He'll
• 36:43
  go for doubles and triples. Good speed. He can
• 36:46
  run. Here's the 1 -0 pitch. Curve ball is low.
• 36:50
  Two balls and no strikes. Frank Presetti flashing
• 36:55
  some signs to Robinson on the 2 -0 pitch. Well,
• 36:59
  what would you do? Would you make them take or
• 37:01
  would you let them hit? Presetti at third, Ford
• 37:04
  coaching at first for the Yanks. Here's the 2
• 37:06
  -0 delivery. Robinson takes it low, three balls,
• 37:10
  no strikes. Joe Sparma, last year, walked 85
• 37:18
  batters. And 218 innings pitch, which is not
• 37:27
  too bad. There's a fastball that's high and tight
• 37:29
  to Bill Robinson. He walks him. Second walk given
• 37:33
  up by Sparma. Walked Madeline the first, and
• 37:36
  now a leadoff walk in the second to Bill Robinson.
• 37:42
  Steve Whitaker, who has been having his troubles,
• 37:44
  has only one base hit and 22 at -bats. Trying
• 37:49
  to get on track there. He's got one RBI. He's
• 37:53
  got the power. Steve waiting. Stands back from
• 37:57
  the plate. Robinson at first. Nobody out. Second
• 38:00
  inning. No score. Detroit and the Yankees. First
• 38:02
  game. Here's the pitch. Whitaker takes low. It's
• 38:05
  ball one. Steve in one of those sessions where
• 38:12
  you start to press. Trying to get on track. Everybody
• 38:17
  telling Steve about their batting slumps. when
• 38:20
  they were playing before the game. He laughed,
• 38:24
  but I don't think it helped too much. Here's
• 38:26
  the 1 -0 pitch. Steve, way inside. Almost got
• 38:29
  hit. It's 2 -0. And now Sparma is going to have
• 38:34
  a visit from the second baseman, Dick McCollough.
• 38:41
  This is a big game for Detroit because they're
• 38:44
  going to pitch a brand -new, fresh rookie, Les
• 38:48
  Kane. He'll be making his major league debut
• 38:52
  in the second game. Of course, youngsters can
• 38:56
  be unpredictable at times, and this is the one
• 39:00
  the Tigers would like to get, just in case. All
• 39:04
  right, Sparma sets. Here's the 2 -0 delivery,
• 39:06
  and Whitaker takes high, three balls and no strikes.
• 39:11
  So Sparma, running into trouble here with Steve
• 39:14
  Whitaker, has already walked Bill Robinson. On
• 39:18
  deck, it's Bobby Cox. Farmer, a hard worker,
• 39:25
  reaches back, puts everything he's got on every
• 39:29
  pitch. He's ready now. Here's the next one to
• 39:33
  Whitaker. It's high, ball four. And that's the
• 39:37
  third walk for Farmer. The Yankees now have runners
• 39:43
  at first and second, and here's Bobby Cox. Bill
• 39:49
  Robinson at second, Whitaker at first, and now
• 39:52
  Bill Freham, the big catcher, is out there talking
• 39:55
  to Sparma. All right, now Ray Euler is in there.
• 40:12
  Sparma has pitched to two batters and has not
• 40:15
  thrown a strike yet in this inning. Walk Robinson
• 40:19
  on fourth straight and Whitaker on fourth straight.
• 40:21
  Now here's Bobby Cox. Cox is looking for his
• 40:29
  first Major League base hit. Got his first Major
• 40:32
  League start yesterday. He's 0 for 6. The pitch
• 40:36
  to Bob is in there. Strike one. The Detroit ball
• 40:44
  club half looking for the bump. Let's see what
• 40:49
  manager Ralph House does. Gene Michael in the
• 40:52
  on -deck circle, and he'll be followed by Mambo
• 40:54
  Kett. Dennis Ryband starting to throw for Detroit
• 40:58
  as Farmer comes set. Here's the next one to Cox,
• 41:03
  and he bunched a foul right behind the plate,
• 41:05
  a curveball. Nothing in tune out of Bobby Cox.
• 41:13
  Oh, the pressure goes on Cox. Farmer out in front.
• 41:17
  No balls, two strikes. Runners at first and second.
• 41:20
  No score. Bottom of the second. Cox waiting.
• 41:36
  Farmer getting the sign from Frein. Detroit infield.
• 41:41
  Double play depth. Outfield straight away. Bobby
• 41:48
  waiting. Farmer set. Here's the pitch. Curb is
• 41:51
  inside. One and two. These are tough days for
• 41:57
  Bobby Cox. Just trying to get his feet wet. Trying
• 42:01
  to get started. He's been around a long time.
• 42:03
  Eight years in the minor league. This is his
• 42:06
  rookie season in the majors. All right. Cox is
• 42:11
  waiting. Farm a set. Here's the one -two pitch.
• 42:15
  Curveball swung on and just fouled. Bill Freon
• 42:20
  had it in his glove, couldn't hang on to it.
• 42:22
  So a break for Bobby Cox. Cox just got a piece
• 42:33
  of that ball, just enough so that it slithered
• 42:36
  out of the glove. The catcher, Bill Freon. Freed
• 42:40
  at it and couldn't fight gravity. Reached for
• 42:42
  it as it fell to the ground. All right, it's
• 42:45
  one ball and two strikes. Runners moving off
• 42:48
  first and second. Here's the next one. Cox fouls
• 42:50
  this one back. Incidentally, for those of you
• 42:56
  who may be able to help, Andy Kosko, who has
• 42:59
  four youngsters, is looking for a three -bedroom
• 43:04
  furnished home in the greater New York area,
• 43:07
  any place. Get his family located. He had one
• 43:11
  all set and then it fell through. And now he's
• 43:13
  got his family that he'd like to bring in and
• 43:16
  get them straightened out. And if anyone can
• 43:19
  help, we'll tell you where to send the message
• 43:22
  in just one moment. Here's the one -two pitch
• 43:25
  to Cox. Curve. He goes down. It's over his head.
• 43:28
  Two and two. He could help Andy Cosco with a
• 43:33
  three -bedroom rental for the summer of a furnished
• 43:37
  home. Send it to Bruce Henry, traveling secretary,
• 43:42
  care of the New York Yankees, Bronx, New York.
• 43:50
  Okay, here's the 2 -2 pitch now. On the way to
• 43:53
  Cox. He hits it on the ground. Word has it. Goes
• 43:55
  to second for one. And barreling into second
• 43:58
  base is Dee Whitaker. No chance for McAuliffe
• 44:02
  to make a relay to first. Moving to third is
• 44:06
  Bill Robinson. See, Whitaker really flew into
• 44:10
  second base, and he ended up about 15 feet past
• 44:14
  the bag. That's how hard he went in there. So
• 44:19
  Whitaker forced a second play going 5 -4, third
• 44:23
  to second. Moving to third base is Robinson at
• 44:27
  first, Bobby Cox, and now here's Gene Michael
• 44:30
  who's been red hot. Michael with four base hits
• 44:34
  in the last two games, batting at 182. Got two
• 44:38
  doubles. And a couple of RBIs. One home run.
• 44:49
  Gene Michael batting from the left side. Starts
• 44:53
  to punt. It was a safe squeeze. Wert was breaking
• 44:56
  in. Holding a third until he saw what happened
• 44:59
  was Bill Robinson. Michael took the ball outside
• 45:03
  for ball one. Pulled his bat out of the way in
• 45:06
  time. Gene Michael trying to lay one down. John
• 45:12
  Worth, the minute he squared around, started
• 45:14
  breaking in at third. All right, Cox at first,
• 45:18
  Robinson at third. Here's the pitch to Michael.
• 45:20
  It's a fastball high and outside, 2 -0. Well,
• 45:30
  you can hear it in the background. We want a
• 45:32
  hit. We want a hit, all the youngsters out here.
• 45:36
  Begin the chant. No score in the ballgame. Last
• 45:40
  of the second. Yankees threatening. One out.
• 45:42
  Runners at first and third. 2 -0 on Michael.
• 45:46
  Here's the next one by Sparma. Hit in front of
• 45:48
  the plate. Free in. Is out. After it. Underhand
• 45:51
  flip. The cash is in time. Robinson holds the
• 45:55
  third and down to second base goes Bobby Cox.
• 45:59
  That ball hit about 10 feet out in front of the
• 46:02
  plate. No chance for Robinson to get in. Going
• 46:06
  to second. Here's Cox. Michael thrown out at
• 46:09
  first. And here's the pitcher, Bill Mamboquette.
• 46:14
  Bill Sparma creating all of his trouble with
• 46:17
  base on balls. He walked the first two hitters,
• 46:20
  Robinson and Whitaker. Yankees on the road. Tuesday,
• 46:34
  Wednesday, and Thursday at Baltimore. Friday,
• 46:36
  Saturday, and Sunday at Chicago. All right, Farmer
• 46:40
  now taking his wind up. The first pitch to Mambo
• 46:43
  Cut is a curve that backs him off the plate.
• 46:45
  And it's ball one. Farmer is just naturally wild.
• 46:56
  He's not a guy with that fine pinpoint control.
• 47:00
  Here's the 1 -0 pitch. Fastball. Hit on the fist.
• 47:03
  Off the facade of the upper deck. Bounced into
• 47:06
  the lower deck and back on the field. One ball
• 47:14
  and one strike. Farmer had such stuff on that
• 47:19
  ball that when Mambo catch swung at it, it was
• 47:21
  almost by him. Hit it right on the fist. Cox
• 47:26
  at second. Robinson at third. Two outs. Here's
• 47:29
  the 1 -1 pitch to Mambo. High pop, right side,
• 47:33
  that's slicing into the stands. Lower area and
• 47:35
  the scramble is on. Not too much wind out here
• 47:48
  today. Wish you could see that outfield. They're
• 47:55
  shaded way toward the right side as though Mambo
• 47:58
  Kev is a left -hand hitter and very shallow.
• 48:01
  Boy, they are way in. Here's the 1 -2 pitch.
• 48:04
  Hit the left field. Not too deep. Coming on is
• 48:07
  Jim Northrup. He's under it and he's got it.
• 48:12
  For the Yankees, no runs, no hits. No Detroit
• 48:16
  errors. Two men left and the score after two.
• 48:19
  Detroit no runs on three hits. The Yankees no
• 48:21
  runs and no hits. You can fire ahead for the
• 48:31
  things you will be. Invest in the future and
• 48:38
  you will succeed. When you follow the ego, the
• 48:44
  red, white, and blue ego, invest in freedom,
• 48:49
  change the US. Have you ever attempted to buy
• 48:56
  a car and found yourself burned by high -pressure
• 49:00
  salesmen? I recommend that you see the Burn Men.
• 49:03
  That's B -Y -R -N -E. And it spells the only
• 49:07
  Ford and Mercury dealer in Mechanicville. Jack
• 49:11
  Burn. See the Burn Men today for courteous service
• 49:14
  and knowledge of their product inside out. See
• 49:18
  the Burn Men at Jack Burn Ford and Mercury, 96
• 49:21
  North Main Street in Mechanicville. Last night
• 49:30
  scores in the American League, Oakland 6, California
• 49:33
  3. In the National League, Philadelphia 4, the
• 49:37
  Braves 1, St. Louis 7, Pittsburgh 5. And Cincinnati
• 49:46
  5 and the Mets 3. It was all a night action yesterday
• 49:50
  in the American and the National. All right,
• 50:01
  here's Dick McAuliffe, who struck out of the
• 50:04
  first inning. Mombo Kett. The old campaigner,
• 50:10
  as they call him. Into the windup and a pitch
• 50:14
  to McAuliffe. In there, strike one. Yeah, I guess
• 50:20
  of the pitchers, Mombo Kett is the oldest. Possibly
• 50:28
  Steve Hamilton may be in there with him. There's
• 50:30
  a fastball in there. Strike two. Let's take a
• 50:37
  look to see who is the oldest Yankee pitcher.
• 50:48
  Mombo Kett pitching to Dick McAuliffe. Delivers
• 50:52
  a curve that just misses outside. One ball, two
• 50:55
  strikes. Mambo Kett. See, Bill was born in August
• 51:08
  11, 36. The pitch to McCullough. Dribble toward
• 51:14
  third. Mambo up with an underhand flip. In time,
• 51:17
  a nice play by Bill Mambo Kett. Fine underhand
• 51:24
  toss by Mambo to get McCullough. Let's see. Steve
• 51:28
  Hamilton was born. 11 -30. 36. So Mombo Kett
• 51:35
  has Hamilton by three months and a few days.
• 51:44
  All right, stepping in now is Mickey Stanley,
• 51:47
  who struck out in the first inning. Takes low.
• 51:52
  Ball one. Stanley. Right -hand batter against
• 51:56
  the right -hand of Mombo Kett. No score in this
• 51:58
  game. Top of the third inning. Mambo into the
• 52:09
  windup. Delivers a fastball. Got the corner.
• 52:14
  1 -1. Gibbs behind the plate. Mantle at first.
• 52:20
  Clark at second. Michael a shortstop. Cox at
• 52:22
  third. Whitaker at left. Robinson center. White
• 52:24
  in right. The 1 -1 pitch. Just misses outside
• 52:28
  by Mambo Kidd. It's 2 -1. The umpires today,
• 52:33
  Lou DiMuro is behind the plate. Marty Springstead
• 52:35
  at first, John Flaherty second, Bob Stewart at
• 52:39
  third. Defense is straight away for Stanley.
• 52:47
  Mickey pulls the bat right down on the end. Does
• 52:50
  not have too much power. He had only seven home
• 52:52
  runs last year. Goes up only 333 times. There's
• 52:58
  a shot up the middle of base hit. That ball was
• 53:01
  a bullet. He picked on a slow curve and drilled
• 53:05
  it up the middle. Base hit number four off Mambo
• 53:10
  Kett. And here's Al Kaline who got the first
• 53:12
  hit after two rounds in the first inning. Well,
• 53:19
  the heart of the Detroit batting order coming
• 53:22
  up now. Kaline, Freon, and Cash. Got his work
• 53:34
  cut out for him now. Al Kaline, who's been a
• 53:37
  little slow and coming to life here with a bat,
• 53:40
  starting to get underway, but this time pops
• 53:43
  it up into short center field. Robinson calling
• 53:46
  for it all the way, is under it and makes the
• 53:48
  play. Stanley was halfway down and then returns
• 53:51
  to first. So Kaline, going after the first pitch,
• 53:56
  pops up to short center, two down. Here's Bill
• 53:59
  Frean, who hit a double in the first. For Freon,
• 54:04
  that was his sixth double of the year, and that
• 54:07
  leads to the Detroit Tigers. Bill Freon, powerful
• 54:15
  hitter. Batting cleanup. Right -hander. Hangs
• 54:20
  right over that plate. Stanley, moving off first.
• 54:27
  The pitch is a pitch -out. They were looking
• 54:29
  for the possible running of Mickey Stanley. Freeman
• 54:48
  was hit by pitch balls 20 times last year, many
• 54:52
  of them in that upper left arm. That's why he
• 54:55
  wears that padding. That was last year. There
• 54:57
  goes Stanley. The pitch fouled back on the screen.
• 55:00
  Stanley had a good jump, and Gibbs would have
• 55:03
  had a tough time throwing him out had Freeman
• 55:05
  taken that pitch. It's one ball, one strike,
• 55:08
  two down. Now Bill Freon saying something to
• 55:13
  Norm Cash in the on -deck circle, and he wants
• 55:15
  a little bit of that pine tar, so they throw
• 55:17
  him the rag. Tell you what's quite an experience
• 55:22
  is to walk around behind the batting cage during
• 55:25
  batting practice and shake hands with these ballplayers,
• 55:27
  and they've all got that pine tar on their hands.
• 55:30
  You need a bottle of turpentine by the time you
• 55:32
  get done. Really sticks. Someone has just thrown
• 55:37
  a tennis ball on the field, and... Now Boquette
• 55:41
  walks in a few steps and gets rid of it. One
• 55:50
  ball, one strike. Stanley at first base. Two
• 55:54
  outs, no score, third inning. Bill Fran, the
• 55:57
  big catcher's the hitter. Came into the game
• 56:00
  at 340. He's one for one, a double. The pitch
• 56:05
  to Bill is hit on the fist, short right field,
• 56:07
  Clark moving back into the short right field
• 56:10
  area and makes the play. No runs, a base hit,
• 56:14
  one left, and the score after two and a half,
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  Detroit nothing, Yankees nothing. If you're like
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  most people, chances are you've been on trips
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  to some very exciting places, but you could be
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  overlooking some exciting places right under
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  in a short one - or two -day trip with the help
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  brochures for this particular area. Each one
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  Okay, we go into the last half of the third inning.
• 57:28
  It's a scoreless ball game, this first one of
• 57:30
  the doubleheader. Joe Sparma against Bill Mambo
• 57:34
  -Kett. For the Yankees, the top of the batting
• 57:37
  order, Clark, Gibbs, and Maddow coming up against
• 57:39
  Sparma. Right after this half inning, we'll bring
• 57:46
  you up to date on all the action in both the
• 57:48
  American and the National and the scores we may
• 57:51
  have at the time. Horace Clark is stepping in.
• 57:56
  He bounced to the shortstop in the first inning
• 57:58
  on the first pitch of the game. Clark batting
• 58:06
  from the left side. A switch hitter, as you know.
• 58:12
  Sparma's first pitch to Horace is in there, strike
• 58:14
  one. Clark, Maddow, White, and Michael, all switch
• 58:20
  hitters. When Peterson started yesterday's game,
• 58:23
  six of the nine players for the Yankees were
• 58:26
  switch hitters. Clark fouls it off. Upper deck.
• 58:30
  Strike two. Trash was playing in that game yesterday.
• 58:34
  And, of course, Rich Peterson, a switch hitting
• 58:37
  pitcher. That's something that may go down as
• 58:40
  a record. Of course, the switch hitter becoming
• 58:45
  more in evidence in more recent years. Mickey
• 58:49
  Mantle, the guy who started it all back in 1951.
• 58:54
  All right, here's the two -strike pitch by Sparma
• 58:57
  to Clark. It's way outside, one and two. There
• 59:02
  were switch hitters before, like Frankie Frisch,
• 59:05
  Red St. Dees, and many others, but Mantle is
• 59:08
  the guy who really brought it into focus. All
• 59:14
  right, here's the one -two pitch now to Clark.
• 59:16
  Curve is outside, two and two. Two balls, two
• 59:27
  strikes. Clark waiting. Sparma delivers. Fastball
• 59:36
  dribbled out toward the mound. Sparma is on it.
• 59:39
  Fires to Cash just in time. Almost hit Clark
• 59:41
  in the back of the head. That was a fine play
• 59:44
  by the first baseman, Norm Cash. Play going 1
• 59:47
  -3. One up and one down. Here's Jake Gibbs who
• 59:50
  fouled the third in the first inning. A scoreless
• 1:00:01
  ball game, and yet it's not moving along very
• 1:00:03
  quickly. Well, that'll give you plenty of time
• 1:00:06
  if you're in the area to come out here and see
• 1:00:08
  most of this first game and all of the second.
• 1:00:15
  Jake Gibbs now waiting as Farmer gets the sign
• 1:00:19
  from free in. Here's the first pitch. The curve
• 1:00:21
  is low. Ball one. Farmer has not given up a base
• 1:00:27
  hit, and yet he's not been sharp. He's walked
• 1:00:29
  three. Mantle in the first. Robinson and Whitaker
• 1:00:33
  in the second. Here's the 1 -0 pitch to Jake.
• 1:00:36
  On the ground. The shortstop in the hole. Euler
• 1:00:39
  is up with it. Underhand flip in time. A nice
• 1:00:42
  play by Ray Euler. Boy, they went over there
• 1:00:46
  and gave it that underhand shoot. And that ball
• 1:00:49
  fired across the infield. So we have two down,
• 1:00:56
  and here's Mickey who walked in the first inning.
• 1:01:09
  Mickey Mantle. Waiting. Farmer delivers a pitch
• 1:01:14
  on the ground. Cash to his right. Bobbles the
• 1:01:17
  ball. Can't come up with it. Fires late. And
• 1:01:21
  Mantle is on a first base. Let's see how they
• 1:01:23
  rule it. And they're giving Cash an error. An
• 1:01:33
  error for Norm Cash on the play. That'll bring
• 1:01:36
  up Roy White with Mantle at first. A two -out
• 1:01:50
  error by Norm Cash. Here's Roy White. No score
• 1:02:01
  on the game. Last of the third. Mantle at first.
• 1:02:03
  The pitch to White. Curve is outside. Ball one.
• 1:02:08
  The ball of a hit to Cash was a questionable
• 1:02:11
  call for the official scorer, but there are no
• 1:02:15
  hits in this game yet. And therefore... As is
• 1:02:20
  generally the pattern, the first base hit in
• 1:02:22
  the game usually has to be a solid one. Or one
• 1:02:26
  that is not disputed. Here's the 1 -0 pitch.
• 1:02:30
  White fouls it back. 1 -1. Roy White bounced
• 1:02:39
  out sharply to second base in the first inning.
• 1:02:42
  White batting fourth. Was leading the American
• 1:02:46
  League as the game started today. Had a .428
• 1:02:51
  batting average. He's 0 for 1. All right, Farmer
• 1:02:59
  sets. The pitch to White. Swung on, a miss, strike
• 1:03:02
  two. A fastball at the knees. Both Nicky Lulich
• 1:03:08
  and Tom Matchick are not with the Tigers this
• 1:03:12
  weekend as they're attending Army Reserve meetings.
• 1:03:15
  Lulich normally would have been one of the starters
• 1:03:18
  in this series. But instead, that second game
• 1:03:21
  goes to Les Kane, a rookie. All right, the 1
• 1:03:25
  -2 pitch to White. On the ground sharply again
• 1:03:27
  to McCollough, the second. He has this one. Flips
• 1:03:29
  to Cash. And the side is retired. For the Yankees,
• 1:03:34
  no runs, no hits. One Detroit error, one man
• 1:03:37
  left. And the score after three, Detroit nothing
• 1:03:40
  and the Yankees nothing. Now let's take a look
• 1:03:44
  at the scoreboard. In the American League, in
• 1:03:47
  the first of a doubleheader, the Senators lead
• 1:03:49
  the Indians 1 -0 after 3. Williams against Ortega.
• 1:03:53
  That's Dan Williams for the Indians and Phil
• 1:03:56
  Ortega for the Senators. In the first of a pair,
• 1:04:00
  Boston and Baltimore, it'll be Santiago against
• 1:04:02
  McNally. No action as yet. In a single game,
• 1:04:05
  the White Sox play the Twins in Minnesota. And
• 1:04:08
  in another single game on the West Coast, it's
• 1:04:10
  Oakland against California in Anaheim. In the
• 1:04:12
  National League... The Mets and Cincinnati play
• 1:04:15
  a single contest, and that game as yet is not
• 1:04:18
  underway. In the first of a doubleheader, Houston
• 1:04:20
  failed to score. On the top of the first, they're
• 1:04:22
  playing the Cubs in a doubleheader at Chicago.
• 1:04:25
  In a single ballgame, Philadelphia and Atlanta.
• 1:04:29
  Wise for the Phillies, Phil Necro for the Braves.
• 1:04:34
  On the west coast, the Dodgers are at San Francisco,
• 1:04:37
  and a later start, Pittsburgh at St. Louis. Both
• 1:04:41
  of those single games. And now we remind you
• 1:04:44
  it's New York Yankee baseball. Let's pause for
• 1:04:46
  station identification. This is Bill Edwards
• 1:04:50
  and I'll see you twice a day at 7 and at 1. Here
• 1:04:53
  on WGY 810 on your dials connected. Okay, into
• 1:05:03
  the fourth inning. No score in this game. Mambo
• 1:05:06
  Kett against Farmer. And here comes Norm Cash.
• 1:05:08
  He'll be followed by Northrup and Wirth. Mambo's
• 1:05:12
  first pitch to Cash is on the corner strike one.
• 1:05:15
  And I keep saying on the corners, and that's
• 1:05:17
  where they are. The one -strike pitch to Cash.
• 1:05:26
  On the ground, sharply hit Mantle on two hops.
• 1:05:29
  Flips to Mambo, one away. Cash bounced to second
• 1:05:33
  in the first inning, and this time to Mantle.
• 1:05:36
  So he's 0 for 2. Now here's Jim Northrup. Northrup
• 1:05:41
  bounced out to Mickey. That was in the second
• 1:05:44
  inning. Talk to Johnny Sane, the Detroit pitching
• 1:05:57
  coach, before the game, and he's just raving
• 1:05:59
  about some of his young pitchers. Fastball is
• 1:06:03
  in there. Strike one to Northrop. Warden, who's
• 1:06:06
  3 -0, and Les Payne, who's getting a start today,
• 1:06:09
  and a youngster by the name of Patterson. John
• 1:06:14
  just loves to work with those young boys. All
• 1:06:21
  right, Mambo Kitt eyeing Jake Gibbs with Northrop
• 1:06:24
  up there. Here's the next one on the way to the
• 1:06:27
  left fielder. It's fouled back on the screen.
• 1:06:29
  Strike two. The little extra roar you heard was
• 1:06:45
  a ball rolling back that didn't quite get to
• 1:06:47
  the field. It's hung up on the net. Here's a
• 1:06:50
  two -strike pitch now to Northrop, high and outside.
• 1:06:53
  One ball, two strikes, one out. Top of the fourth
• 1:06:56
  inning. The Tigers have all four bases. It's
• 1:07:00
  a scoreless ballgame. Jim Northrop waiting as
• 1:07:08
  Mambo Kett delivers, and this one is low, 2 -2.
• 1:07:13
  Northrop was three for five yesterday. Had a
• 1:07:16
  home run and two RBIs. Northrop has a straight
• 1:07:26
  -up stance. Holds the bat right on the end. Feet
• 1:07:30
  not too far apart. The 2 -2 delivery. Swung on.
• 1:07:33
  Foul back off the chest protector of the plate
• 1:07:36
  umpire, Luda Muro. Now holes at two balls and
• 1:07:40
  two strikes. Somebody threw a big firecracker
• 1:07:44
  out of the upper deck, I guess. Those things
• 1:07:53
  can be dangerous. I wish you youngsters would
• 1:07:56
  be careful about that because sometimes they
• 1:07:59
  can land near people's eyes. Here's the 2 -2
• 1:08:02
  delivery. Changeup, hit the right field, coming
• 1:08:04
  on fast. It's Roy White, it's in there for a
• 1:08:06
  base hit. That ball hit near the trademark, not
• 1:08:11
  too solidly. But goes for a single for Jim Northrup.
• 1:08:17
  That's the fifth hit off Mambo. Now here's Don
• 1:08:21
  Wirt who struck out on the second. Don Wirt,
• 1:08:32
  the third baseman, stepping in there, facing
• 1:08:35
  Mambo Kett. Yankee infield, a double play depth.
• 1:08:40
  Now Mambo steps off the rubber. Northrop at first
• 1:08:48
  base. The pitch to word is high. It's ball one.
• 1:08:51
  You might be hearing a little activity and noise.
• 1:08:54
  There's a youngster who's climbed up on the screen
• 1:08:56
  trying to get a baseball through the netting.
• 1:08:59
  And even if he gets it, they won't let him have
• 1:09:01
  it because you can't do that. He's also got his
• 1:09:04
  finger stuck in that screen. And if there was
• 1:09:06
  a foul ball that came back there, it chopped
• 1:09:10
  some of those fingers right off. All right, here's
• 1:09:15
  the 1 -0 pitch to work. It's 2 -0. But he's creating
• 1:09:21
  more attention here at the stadium than the ball
• 1:09:24
  game. And unfortunately, he could put himself
• 1:09:27
  in danger there. And he has now got the ball
• 1:09:32
  strung all the way across the middle of the screen,
• 1:09:37
  and he's still climbing across there. All right,
• 1:09:42
  the 2 -0 pitch. There goes Northrup. Ball hit
• 1:09:44
  in the center field. Little drop for a base hit.
• 1:09:46
  Northrup on his way to third base. And on the
• 1:09:50
  hit and run, John Wirt drills a single to center.
• 1:09:54
  Detroit with runners now at first and third.
• 1:09:57
  One away. And the batter will be the shortstop,
• 1:10:01
  Ray Euler. That's the sixth hit off Mambo Kett.
• 1:10:14
  The youngster finally got the ball, but he's
• 1:10:16
  going to be escorted from the ballpark. And when
• 1:10:18
  he gets down, there's an officer waiting for
• 1:10:20
  him. That's very dangerous. A foul ball. Hit
• 1:10:27
  those fingers. They're stuck right between the
• 1:10:29
  screen. He can take one right off. All right.
• 1:10:35
  Euler is stepping in. He had a scratch single
• 1:10:37
  in the first. It's a high fly into center field.
• 1:10:40
  Robinson gunning for this one. Tagging up is
• 1:10:42
  Northrup. Here's the throw. It goes into second
• 1:10:45
  base, and Northrup comes in to score, and Detroit
• 1:10:47
  leads 1 -0 on the sacrifice fly by Ray Euler.
• 1:10:54
  Euler has been a thorn in the side of the Yankees
• 1:10:56
  throughout this entire series. Ray coming up
• 1:11:01
  with his fifth RBI of the year, and Detroit taking
• 1:11:05
  a 1 -0 lead. Well, that boy has moved that ball
• 1:11:17
  halfway across the screen, and they've got half
• 1:11:20
  of the special police department there to greet
• 1:11:24
  him as he comes down. There's a ground ball,
• 1:11:27
  slowly hit towards short. In front of the shortstop
• 1:11:29
  is Cox. One has it. Flips the mantle just in
• 1:11:32
  time, and Sparma's out of there. That play going
• 1:11:35
  5 -3. Nice play by Bobby Cox. So for Detroit,
• 1:11:40
  one run on two base hits, one man left. And the
• 1:11:44
  score after three and a half, Detroit leading
• 1:11:46
  the Yankees one to nothing. Will the White Owl
• 1:11:50
  girl please report to the press box? How'd you
• 1:11:53
  know I was here? Easy. You're always where the
• 1:11:56
  men are. There are lots of men out here today,
• 1:11:59
  right? Right. You got me in the middle of my
• 1:12:02
  adding. Adding? Just for fun, I was counting
• 1:12:05
  the men smoking White Owl cigars. And how'd you
• 1:12:07
  come out? I lost count. They ate so many. I spot
• 1:12:12
  some rangers, a bunch of New Yorkers, hundreds
• 1:12:14
  of invincibles. We need a White Owl scoreboard.
• 1:12:17
  Even without one, I can tell it's a White Owl
• 1:12:20
  crowd. Because we love that White Owl tobacco.
• 1:12:23
  It's slow -aged, well -oiled to build up the
• 1:12:27
  mild taste. And no matter which White Owl shape
• 1:12:30
  a man picks, he's sure of a smooth smoke right
• 1:12:34
  down to the last pitch. That's a pretty good
• 1:12:37
  pitch you're making yourself. It's true. Every
• 1:12:40
  time I see a man light up a white owl, I know
• 1:12:43
  he's going to enjoy himself. I know he's going
• 1:12:46
  to discover why they say you get a lot more from
• 1:12:49
  a white owl than just milk. Okay, Detroit leading
• 1:13:08
  the Yankees 1 -0. We go into the bottom of the
• 1:13:10
  fourth inning. Here's Bill Robinson. He'll be
• 1:13:12
  followed by Whitaker and Cox. And Joe Sparma,
• 1:13:16
  leading right now, 1 -0, has not given up a base
• 1:13:21
  hit. Robbie, who opened up the second with a
• 1:13:33
  base on balls. Waiting as Farmer goes into his
• 1:13:36
  lineup. There's a curve that's in there for strike
• 1:13:38
  one. Cubs leading Houston 2 -0. They're in the
• 1:13:45
  second inning. Senators 1, the Indians nothing
• 1:13:50
  in the fourth. Robinson, a high chopper to the
• 1:13:53
  shortstop. Euler has it on the second hop. Flips
• 1:13:55
  over to Cash. One away. Ray Euler throws that
• 1:14:01
  ball underhand, but he really gets something
• 1:14:03
  on it. Just Steve Whitaker who walked in the
• 1:14:07
  second. Yankees trailing by a run. First game
• 1:14:11
  of the doubleheader. It'll be Fred Talbot for
• 1:14:13
  the Yanks. Les Kane for Detroit in that second
• 1:14:17
  game. And it will be the Major League debut of
• 1:14:20
  Les Kane. Just a youngster. Seems to be fairly
• 1:14:26
  calm before the game. Rather relaxed. There's
• 1:14:30
  a curve to Whitaker inside. Ball one. Les Payne,
• 1:14:39
  a young left -hander, making his major league
• 1:14:43
  debut in the second game. But right now, it's
• 1:14:48
  Steve Whitaker. 1 -0 the count with one out,
• 1:14:51
  nobody on. Here's Farmer, outside, 2 -0. Detroit
• 1:14:55
  leading 1 -0. They got that run last inning.
• 1:14:59
  A one -out single by Northrop, a single on the
• 1:15:02
  hit -and -run by Wirt, and a sacrifice fly by
• 1:15:05
  Ray Euler. Here's the 2 -0 pitch to Whitaker.
• 1:15:11
  In there for a strike. Joe Sparma. He just rears
• 1:15:18
  back and unloads. Born in Matlin, Ohio. He's
• 1:15:28
  ready. The 2 -1 pitch to Whitaker is low and
• 1:15:31
  outside, 3 -1. See, Sparma was 13 -8. In 65 for
• 1:15:39
  Detroit. 2 -7 at 66. Had a real bad year. And
• 1:15:43
  then bounced back 16 -9 last year under the tutelage
• 1:15:46
  of Johnny Sainz. High fastball over the head
• 1:15:49
  of Whitaker. Ball four. That's the fourth walk
• 1:15:52
  given up by Sparma and the second to Whitaker.
• 1:15:56
  The Yankees still looking for their first base
• 1:15:58
  hit. And only base runners. Mantle with a walk.
• 1:16:03
  Safe on an error by Cash. Robinson with a walk
• 1:16:06
  and Whitaker. has been walked twice. Now the
• 1:16:11
  plate umpire, Lou DiMuro, is rubbing up the baseball
• 1:16:13
  as Bobby Cox steps in. Winokirk first. Cox the
• 1:16:21
  hitter. Bobby is 0 for 1. He's 0 for 7, looking
• 1:16:25
  for his first Major League Base hit. Cox just
• 1:16:31
  began to play regularly. That was yesterday.
• 1:16:35
  Made his first start ever in the big leagues.
• 1:16:38
  All right, Whitaker moving off first. Went away.
• 1:16:40
  The pitch to Cox. High pop. Coming back into
• 1:16:43
  the upper deck and out of play. Strike one. Boy,
• 1:16:51
  that first base hit can be a real strain sometimes.
• 1:16:55
  Mike Ferraro won the third base job in spring
• 1:16:58
  training. And had a good shot two weeks. Did
• 1:17:04
  not hit as well as he would have liked, so manager
• 1:17:07
  Ralph House decided to give Bobby Cox a shot
• 1:17:09
  at it. All right, Sparman to Cox. On the ground
• 1:17:18
  to the shortstop. He has it. Flips to second
• 1:17:20
  for one. Throw to first. Double play. 6 -4 -3.
• 1:17:25
  Short second to first. And the Yankees are out
• 1:17:29
  of there here in the bottom of the fourth. No
• 1:17:31
  runs, no hits, no errors. Nobody left. And the
• 1:17:34
  score after four, Detroit one run on six hits,
• 1:17:37
  the Yankees no runs and no hits. Extended care
• 1:17:42
  benefits are now available under Medicare for
• 1:17:44
  people 65 or over. These benefits are for the
• 1:17:47
  patient who's been under hospital care for three
• 1:17:49
  days or more and whose doctor decides that he
• 1:17:51
  no longer requires full hospital care but is
• 1:17:54
  not yet well enough to go home. If you're admitted
• 1:17:56
  to one of these special extended care facilities
• 1:17:58
  within 14 days after you were released from the
• 1:18:02
  hospital, For further treatment of a condition
• 1:18:04
  for which you were hospitalized, Medicare will
• 1:18:07
  pay for all covered services for the first 20
• 1:18:09
  days. If you have to stay longer than 20 days,
• 1:18:12
  Medicare will pay for all but $5 a day for up
• 1:18:15
  to 80 more days. Remember, Medicare does not
• 1:18:18
  pay for personal or custodial care in an ordinary
• 1:18:21
  nursing home. It does pay for medically necessary
• 1:18:25
  follow -up care in a specially qualified skilled
• 1:18:28
  nursing home. or other approved extended care
• 1:18:31
  facility after a hospital stay. For more information,
• 1:18:35
  get in touch with your Social Security office
• 1:18:37
  and ask for a leaflet called Medicare and the
• 1:18:40
  Extended Care Facility. Okay, all set to go here
• 1:18:44
  in the top of the fifth inning. Bill Mamboquette
• 1:18:46
  and Joe Sparma with Sparma right now out in front
• 1:18:49
  one to nothing. Detroit leading the Yankees.
• 1:18:53
  Mamboquette has given six hits. Sparma has yet
• 1:18:56
  to give up a base hit. And once again at the
• 1:18:59
  top of the Detroit batting order, Dick McAuliffe,
• 1:19:02
  he'll be followed by Stanley and Kaline. This
• 1:19:06
  is the third time that McAuliffe has let off
• 1:19:09
  an inning. He did so to open the game in the
• 1:19:11
  first and then did it again in the third and
• 1:19:13
  now in the fifth. He's 0 for 2, struck out and
• 1:19:16
  bounced to the pitcher. McAuliffe, a dangerous
• 1:19:20
  batter. Waiting as Mambo delivers and the fastball
• 1:19:25
  is outside. Ball one. In the fourth inning, the
• 1:19:28
  Senators still lead the Indians 1 -0. The other
• 1:19:33
  game, it's the Cubs 2, Houston nothing in the
• 1:19:36
  third. And right here, it's Detroit 1, Yankees
• 1:19:42
  nothing fifth. McCollum takes outside. Two balls
• 1:19:47
  and no strikes. Ron Boquette shooting for his
• 1:19:55
  third win. It's been a tremendous acquisition
• 1:19:59
  for the Yankees. Here's the 2 -0 delivery. Bunted
• 1:20:03
  behind the plate foul. Two balls and a strike.
• 1:20:07
  McAuliffe was halfway to first base before the
• 1:20:10
  ball bounced back into Gibbs' mitt. Dick McAuliffe
• 1:20:18
  trying to get something started. Tried to beat
• 1:20:21
  out a bunt. Some close races in both the American
• 1:20:33
  and the National right now. Red hot. There's
• 1:20:36
  a dribbler toward first. It's fair. Gibbs out.
• 1:20:38
  Under it. Flips the mantle. In time on a close
• 1:20:41
  play. He had to throw that ball overhand to get
• 1:20:45
  it over the head of Dick McAuliffe. McAuliffe
• 1:20:48
  going right down that line. Gibbs had to throw
• 1:20:50
  it over his head and made a good play. So that
• 1:20:53
  one goes 2 -3. Hatcher to first. We have one
• 1:20:57
  up and one down. Here's Mickey Stanley who struck
• 1:20:59
  out in singles. Stanley was moving right along
• 1:21:08
  in the Tiger outfield a couple years ago and
• 1:21:11
  then he broke a finger in a home accident. Never
• 1:21:15
  really regained his job again. Jim Northrup came
• 1:21:18
  on and with Horton, Northrup and Kaline they
• 1:21:20
  have formed the outfield for Detroit. Curveball
• 1:21:23
  is in there. Strike one. Stanley has been a valuable
• 1:21:27
  acquisition for the Tigers, but has never really
• 1:21:30
  made it on a regular basis as yet. Now Boquette
• 1:21:39
  getting the side from Gibbs. The one -strike
• 1:21:42
  pitch. On the ground. Michael to his left. Up
• 1:21:45
  with it. Underhand flip is off the glove of Mantle.
• 1:21:48
  Rolling back to the screen. And Gibbs is right
• 1:21:51
  there. A fine play by Jake. And they're charging
• 1:21:59
  Gene Michael with an error on the throw. And
• 1:22:02
  that's the second Yankee error in the ballgame.
• 1:22:05
  No, wait a minute. That's the first Yankee error.
• 1:22:08
  The other one was by Norm Cash for Detroit. So
• 1:22:13
  Michael is charged with an error. Stanley on
• 1:22:15
  at first base. And here's Al Kaline, who's one
• 1:22:18
  for two. Single to left in the first. Yankees
• 1:22:25
  still looking for the first base hit. Detroit
• 1:22:27
  with six. Kaline standing in there. Waiting.
• 1:22:34
  Mambo Kett delivers. There's a dribbler foul
• 1:22:36
  to the right side. Gibbs out and after the ball.
• 1:22:40
  Fires it back to Bill. It's one strike on Al
• 1:22:42
  Kaline. Kaline free and in cash. Third, fourth,
• 1:22:47
  and fifth hitters for Detroit coming on now.
• 1:22:57
  All right, Mambo Kett comes set. Check Stanley.
• 1:23:01
  The pitch to Kaline. It's a pitch out. Stanley
• 1:23:04
  holding. It's one and one. That's the second
• 1:23:08
  time the Gibbs has pitched out with Stanley at
• 1:23:11
  first. Sometimes the manager will send a man
• 1:23:16
  right after a pitch out. He doesn't figure the
• 1:23:18
  catcher will go for it twice in a row. Let's
• 1:23:21
  see what happens here. Stanley moving off first.
• 1:23:25
  K -line waiting. One and one to count. One down.
• 1:23:28
  One to nothing. Detroit leads. There goes Stanley.
• 1:23:30
  The ball is swung on a foul back. One ball, two
• 1:23:33
  strikes. So manager Mayo Smith running the pattern
• 1:23:36
  through the form. Center's runner. K -line had
• 1:23:40
  a good cut of the fastball and just got a piece
• 1:23:42
  of it as it was fouled back. So it's one ball
• 1:23:45
  and two strikes now. Al K -line, one of four
• 1:23:51
  Detroit ballplayers to play over 2 ,000 ballgames.
• 1:23:55
  Cobb, Gerringer, and Crawford ahead of him. Kaline
• 1:23:59
  with 305 lifetime homers is only one behind the
• 1:24:02
  all -time homerun slugger for Detroit, Hank Greenberg.
• 1:24:06
  Here's the 1 -2 pitch fouled off upper deck by
• 1:24:09
  Kaline. And the count remains one ball and two
• 1:24:12
  strikes. You must remember, though, that Hank
• 1:24:16
  Greenberg, who in one year hit 58 homeruns, spent
• 1:24:21
  four years in the service. and missed a lot of
• 1:24:26
  home run potential. Hank, who now makes his home
• 1:24:30
  here in New York. Hall of Famer, one of the great
• 1:24:34
  guys. Kaline is waiting. One ball, two strikes,
• 1:24:41
  one out. Stanley moving off first again. The
• 1:24:44
  pitch to Al is another pitch out, and Gibbs looking
• 1:24:47
  for Stanley to run once again. So let's see just
• 1:24:51
  what happens this time. Two balls, two strikes.
• 1:24:56
  A different pattern now. It's a two -strike count
• 1:24:59
  to Kaline. Stanley at first base. If he goes
• 1:25:05
  and Kaline doesn't like the pitch and takes it
• 1:25:08
  for a ball, Stanley will have to get a good jump
• 1:25:10
  to steal a base. Let's see. He looked like he
• 1:25:14
  was going, but Marble kept through over to first
• 1:25:16
  base and Stanley has moved back. Mickey Stanley
• 1:25:22
  at first. Safe on the air by Gene Michael. 2
• 1:25:27
  -2 on Kaline. Stanley moving off first again.
• 1:25:30
  There he goes. Here's the pitch. On the ground.
• 1:25:32
  Michael is breaking towards second. Comes in,
• 1:25:35
  flips the mantle in time to get Kaline. And Kaline
• 1:25:38
  went over first base and it looked as though
• 1:25:41
  his leg gave way momentarily. And he seems to
• 1:25:46
  be gimping just a little bit coming back. He
• 1:25:49
  hit that bag rather hard, and as he did, he sort
• 1:25:53
  of went down, it appeared, but held on, and as
• 1:25:56
  he ran back, seemed to gimp just a little bit,
• 1:26:00
  but we'll have to wait and see if he's okay.
• 1:26:02
  Down to second base is Stanley. That was a fine
• 1:26:05
  play, incidentally, by Gene Michaels. He was
• 1:26:07
  breaking on the cover and then had to come back
• 1:26:09
  to get the slow grounder. All right, Bill Friend,
• 1:26:15
  who doubled and popped to second, steps in. Detroit
• 1:26:19
  leading 1 -0, fifth inning. Mambo Kett to free
• 1:26:22
  in. In the dirt, gives, blocks it nicely, and
• 1:26:25
  holds Stanley at second. Well, there's a sign
• 1:26:29
  on the board. Yankees welcome Pearl Bailey. And
• 1:26:34
  what a job she's doing, and hello, Dolly. Well,
• 1:26:38
  that's one of the great, quickie songs of all
• 1:26:40
  time, I guess. You hear it once, and you go away
• 1:26:46
  humming it. One and 0 to count now. Frein standing
• 1:26:56
  in there. Mambo Kett delivers a curve right down
• 1:26:59
  the middle. One ball, one strike. One ball, one
• 1:27:10
  strike, two outs. Yankees trailing 1 -0. Mambo
• 1:27:18
  Kett. Veteran right -hander. His 10th year in
• 1:27:23
  the big time. Comes set. Checks Stanley. Here's
• 1:27:26
  the pitch. The free and in the dirt. Another
• 1:27:28
  nice play by Gibbs. Two balls and one strike.
• 1:27:53
  Okay, we're all set to go here. Mambo Kett taking
• 1:27:57
  his time out there. Comes set once again. Free
• 1:28:01
  and waiting. Here's the 2 -1 pitch. Hit hard
• 1:28:04
  and deep to left foul. Ooh, baby, was that ball
• 1:28:07
  plastered. That ball was really hit free and
• 1:28:20
  jumping out in front of a high slider. Hooked
• 1:28:23
  it hard and foul. In the fifth inning, Senators
• 1:28:31
  lead the Indians 1 -0. Third inning, the Cubs
• 1:28:36
  2, Houston nothing. And here, Detroit 1, Yankees
• 1:28:42
  nothing. There's a 2 -2 pitch foul tip coming
• 1:28:44
  back on the screen, and the count holds two balls
• 1:28:46
  and two strikes to free him. Norm Cash waiting
• 1:28:54
  on deck. Marble Kett has thrown a lot of pitches
• 1:28:59
  out there. Defense for Frehan. They play him
• 1:29:10
  deep in the outfield. Infield is about straightaway,
• 1:29:13
  and the outfield pretty much straightaway. They
• 1:29:15
  don't play him to pull too much. Here's the 2
• 1:29:17
  -2 delivery. Sidearm curve, and he gets a little
• 1:29:19
  piece of that as it's fouled off. For the ball
• 1:29:22
  boy, just to the left of the Yankee dugout. Crean,
• 1:29:38
  the only catcher since Mickey Cochran, who caught
• 1:29:42
  for Detroit, to bat 300. All right, free and
• 1:29:51
  is waiting. Mambo Kett gets a side from Jake.
• 1:29:56
  Mambo's set. The next one to free, and oops,
• 1:29:58
  that ball fouled off his bat. That almost hit
• 1:30:01
  him. That ball is right around his Adam's apple,
• 1:30:05
  and he's playing with that right hand of his
• 1:30:09
  like the ball might have touched his fingers
• 1:30:11
  off that bat. See, Crean hit .300 back in 1964
• 1:30:17
  and then had two bad years where he batted only
• 1:30:19
  .234, but last year bounced back at .282. So
• 1:30:28
  Crean almost got nailed with a fastball around
• 1:30:32
  the Adam's apple by Mambo Kettis, digging in
• 1:30:35
  once again. Stanley at second base, two outs,
• 1:30:38
  a 2 -2 count. Mambo again, here it comes. It's
• 1:30:41
  on the corner, strike three, he got him. Three
• 1:30:45
  in, took it all away, and that's strikeout number
• 1:30:48
  four for Mambo. For Detroit, no run, no hit,
• 1:30:53
  one Yankee error, one man left. And the score
• 1:30:57
  after four and a half, Detroit, one run on six
• 1:30:59
  hits, the Yankees no runs on no hit. Well, we're
• 1:31:03
  all set to go here in the bottom of the fifth
• 1:31:05
  inning, and coming on to tell you all about it
• 1:31:07
  is the scooter, Phil Rizzuto. All right, thank
• 1:31:11
  you, Jerry. And we've got quite a ball game going
• 1:31:13
  on here. Real pitching duel, 1 -0. Yankees still
• 1:31:20
  looking for their first hit of the ballgame.
• 1:31:23
  Four innings without a base hit. Gene Michael
• 1:31:27
  bounced out in front of the plate his first time
• 1:31:30
  up. Joe Squammer delivers. The pitch is in there.
• 1:31:36
  Strike one, call. Spalmer's been a little while
• 1:31:45
  today. He's walked four men. Shows next pitch.
• 1:31:50
  Ground ball to third. Nice play by Wirth. Fires
• 1:31:53
  the first one out. That ball almost got by him.
• 1:31:57
  It would have been a double down the line as
• 1:31:58
  Gene was trying to go that way. And hit the ball
• 1:32:02
  sharply. And right now on New York Yankee Baseball,
• 1:32:05
  we pause for station identification. Join me,
• 1:32:11
  Harry Downey, weekdays 10 to 11 .30 a .m. here
• 1:32:13
  on WGY 810 on your dials connected. All right,
• 1:32:23
  Bill Mambo -Kett. Mambo flying to left field,
• 1:32:26
  his first time at bat. He was up with runners
• 1:32:28
  at second and third and two out in the second
• 1:32:30
  inning. Almost dumped one in a short left field.
• 1:32:34
  Bomb is pitched, foul, upstairs out of play.
• 1:32:37
  You know, when Lou Gehrig retired from baseball,
• 1:32:39
  he told a pack Yankee Stadium, I consider myself
• 1:32:42
  the luckiest man on the face of the earth. He
• 1:32:45
  was only 36 then. He was dying and he knew it.
• 1:32:48
  And there's a great lesson to learn from Lou
• 1:32:49
  Gehrig. And there are great lessons to learn
• 1:32:52
  from other baseball immortals. You'll find a
• 1:32:54
  lot of their stories on the 40 -page baseball
• 1:32:56
  special in the May Reader's Digest. It's presented
• 1:32:59
  by Uniroyal, the people who make the rain tire
• 1:33:02
  especially for wet roads. There's a fly ball
• 1:33:05
  to left field. Hit well, but right at Northrop,
• 1:33:07
  it's two out. And it brings up Horace Clark.
• 1:33:13
  Horace has bounced to short and hit back to the
• 1:33:15
  box. All right, Clark, the batter. Two out, nobody
• 1:33:31
  on. 1 -0 Detroit lead. Coach Farmer with a short
• 1:33:40
  windup. Curve high outside, ball one. On deck,
• 1:33:50
  Jake Gibbs. Onward, playing in at third base.
• 1:34:00
  First for ground ball to his left coiler. Up
• 1:34:02
  with it. Fires to Cash for the out. The Yankees
• 1:34:07
  are retired in order. Nothing across. And the
• 1:34:11
  score now, at the end of five full innings, Detroit
• 1:34:15
  won and the Yankees nothing. Tipperillo asked
• 1:34:19
  the American people what they thought of the
• 1:34:21
  world's first menthol cigar. New Tipperillo M
• 1:34:24
  with menthol. Excuse me, sir. How does the idea
• 1:34:29
  of a menthol cigar sound to you? Menthol cigar!
• 1:34:36
  Hello? I'm calling for Tipperillo. We'd like
• 1:34:39
  your candid opinion about the idea of a menthol
• 1:34:41
  cigar. Menthol cigar? Pardon me, sir. Yes, would
• 1:34:45
  you mind rolling down your window? I'd like to
• 1:34:48
  ask you how the idea of putting menthol in a
• 1:34:50
  cigar sounds to you. Then we got wise and didn't
• 1:34:54
  mention our cigar was menthol. Sure. Would you
• 1:34:58
  mind trying a new taste in cigars from Tipperillo?
• 1:35:00
  What's in it? Well, here, let me just light it
• 1:35:03
  up for you. I'm sure you'll... How does it taste?
• 1:35:06
  Cool, cool. Yeah, kind of refreshing. Oh, that's
• 1:35:10
  good news. Tastes great. What did you say the
• 1:35:12
  name of that cigar was? I think we're going to
• 1:35:14
  have to call it the great taste that sounds terrible.
• 1:35:17
  New Tipperillo M with Menthol. For Detroit, it'll
• 1:35:26
  be Norm Cash, Jim Northrup, and Don Wirt to face
• 1:35:29
  Bill Monboquette. Monbo has allowed six base
• 1:35:37
  hits. He has not walked anybody, struck out four,
• 1:35:40
  and has allowed just one run, and that came in
• 1:35:42
  the fourth inning with one out, Northrup single
• 1:35:45
  to right. On the hit and run, Don Wirt single
• 1:35:48
  to center, sending Northrup to third, and then
• 1:35:50
  Orler hit a sacrifice fly to Bill Robinson in
• 1:35:53
  center field. It was an unusual play in the sense
• 1:36:00
  that Jim Northrup at third base did not take
• 1:36:03
  the customary stance at third with his left foot
• 1:36:06
  on the bag and looking at the outfielder, he
• 1:36:08
  put his right foot on the bag and watched the
• 1:36:09
  coach, Tony Cuccinello, who gave him the sign
• 1:36:12
  when to run, and I've never seen that before.
• 1:36:16
  It worked, though. He scored. Cash 0 for 2. Curve
• 1:36:21
  ball in there. Strike one called. Cash has bounced
• 1:36:23
  to second and bounced to first. Mayo Smith, the
• 1:36:29
  Tiger manager, in the same spot that Ralph Houck
• 1:36:32
  is in the Yankee dugout on the steps of the dugout.
• 1:36:34
  Low 1 -1. Beautiful day for this doubleheader.
• 1:36:46
  Good crowd on hand. The 1 -1 pitch on the outside
• 1:36:52
  corner. And man, that Mambo has been nicking
• 1:36:55
  those corners. Cash steps back. Talks to DiMuro.
• 1:37:00
  Norm walks around in a circle whenever he is
• 1:37:03
  dissatisfied with a call. Hangs his head, shakes
• 1:37:06
  it a little bit. Still plenty of time for you
• 1:37:11
  folks listening to get out for the rest of this
• 1:37:13
  game and all of the second game. Kirk swing and
• 1:37:16
  a miss as he took something off it. Strikeout
• 1:37:19
  number five for Mambo. And here is Jim Northrup.
• 1:37:27
  Bounce to first, single to right field. He has
• 1:37:29
  scored the game's only run. Pitcher bounce, a
• 1:37:43
  nice play by Mambo. Backhands and wheels around.
• 1:37:46
  Throws to Mantle in time for the out. Two up,
• 1:37:50
  two down. And the batter now downwards. Struck
• 1:37:54
  out and single to center field. The youngsters
• 1:38:06
  are out in force today. The pitch by Mambo, curve
• 1:38:16
  high, ball one. They got the signs around the
• 1:38:20
  upper deck. All of them from Mickey Mantle. One
• 1:38:26
  is just a big number seven. And that tells the
• 1:38:30
  story in itself. Slow curve over. One ball, one
• 1:38:36
  strike. I think it's worth the price of admission
• 1:38:39
  just to come out and watch Mambo Kett operate
• 1:38:42
  on these hitters. That's the sign from Jake Gibbs.
• 1:38:51
  Slow curve, a little low. Two balls and a strike.
• 1:38:55
  On deck, Ray Hoyler. Mombo Kett takes no chances
• 1:39:07
  of getting called for going with his right fingers
• 1:39:10
  to his mouth. He takes the glove off, holds it
• 1:39:13
  in the right hand, and then mops his brow or
• 1:39:15
  his face with the left hand. The 2 -1 pitch popped
• 1:39:21
  up to the right side mantle, and now Clark calls
• 1:39:25
  him off it. Clark is there, makes the catch in
• 1:39:28
  foul territory. And so the Tigers get down in
• 1:39:33
  order. And the score now, at the end of five
• 1:39:36
  and a half innings, Detroit won, the Yankees
• 1:39:38
  nothing. You know, weekends can turn into the
• 1:39:41
  busiest time of the week. That's the time you
• 1:39:43
  shop and do necessary household chores. But let's
• 1:39:46
  face it, weekends should be a time for the whole
• 1:39:47
  family to be together, a time to relax and enjoy
• 1:39:50
  yourself. This weekend, for example, why not
• 1:39:53
  load the family into the car and take off on
• 1:39:55
  an Atlantic Weekender tour to one of the interesting
• 1:39:57
  destinations in Atlantic's free Weekender tour
• 1:40:00
  guides. In case you're not familiar with the
• 1:40:02
  tour guides, let me tell you about them. They're
• 1:40:04
  more than just trips. These one -day and weekend
• 1:40:07
  planned tours to nearby exciting and unusual
• 1:40:09
  locations not only tell you how to get there,
• 1:40:12
  but they point out what to see on the way and
• 1:40:14
  what to do once you arrive. These weekender tour
• 1:40:17
  guides are free, of course. Just stop in at any
• 1:40:20
  Atlantic station and ask for one. And while you're
• 1:40:22
  there, fill up with Atlantic Imperial, the gasoline
• 1:40:24
  that cleans the throttle plate area of your carburetor
• 1:40:27
  as you drive and keeps it clean. You'll find
• 1:40:30
  the going's great. when you travel the Imperial
• 1:40:33
  Road with Atlantic Imperial, the clean carburetor
• 1:40:36
  gasoline. Jake Gibbs leads it off for the Yankees
• 1:40:53
  here in the bottom of the sixth inning. Gibbs
• 1:40:56
  has popped the third and bounced to the shortstop.
• 1:41:02
  An airplane flew out on the field, and Bill Freon
• 1:41:06
  is picking it up, putting it in his pocket. All
• 1:41:14
  right, the Yankees looking for their first hit
• 1:41:15
  in the ballgame. Detroit leading 1 -0. Joe Spalmer
• 1:41:23
  out on the mound. Spalmer's pitch to Gibbs, outside
• 1:41:27
  ball one. On deck, Mickey Mantle. There's the
• 1:41:41
  windup. Pitch right in there. Strike called.
• 1:41:46
  1 -1. Farmer really chewing that gum out on the
• 1:41:54
  mound. He's blowing bubbles. I thought he was
• 1:41:58
  blowing bubbles out there. The pitch, a bouncer
• 1:42:00
  over his head, off his glove, Oiler in, up with
• 1:42:02
  it. What a first base they got him. A good play
• 1:42:07
  as Farmer deflected the ball just enough so that
• 1:42:11
  Orla could make the play over the bag. And the
• 1:42:14
  batter, Mickey Mantle. hitter going for five
• 1:42:32
  in the third inning is so relaxed out of the
• 1:42:36
  mound, he's blowing bubbles. The pitch to Mickey
• 1:42:40
  Mantle, outside ball one. Mickey has walked and
• 1:42:43
  reached on an error. The ball that could have
• 1:42:48
  been given a base hit as Cash had to go to his
• 1:42:50
  right on a hard hit ground ball. He knocked it
• 1:42:52
  down, but couldn't hold on. Another bounce is
• 1:42:55
  slowly to first base. And Cash! Picks it up and
• 1:42:59
  steps on the bag for the unassisted put out.
• 1:43:04
  Mickey went down that line in a hurry. Two outs.
• 1:43:08
  And Nevada Rohrwhite, who has bounced hard to
• 1:43:10
  second base, both times he's been up there. Nobody
• 1:43:42
  on. Detroit leads 1 -0. The pitch to White is
• 1:43:44
  low. Ball one. Thought we had a Frenchman in
• 1:43:56
  our booth for a minute there, but it's Ernie
• 1:43:57
  Harwell with his little French hat on. There's
• 1:44:01
  a curve over strike called. On deck, Bill Robinson.
• 1:44:10
  Ward plays in at third. Bama's pitch high. Two
• 1:44:14
  balls and a strike. Bama, like Mamba Kett, makes
• 1:44:27
  his time out on the mound. Gets the sign from
• 1:44:32
  Friend. Here's the windup. The pitch, a foul
• 1:44:35
  off the plate and hit wide in the leg. Evens
• 1:44:40
  the count at 2 -2. Two balls, two strikes, two
• 1:44:48
  outs. All right, Joe Sparma getting ready out
• 1:44:57
  on the mound. His pitch is hit down the left
• 1:45:03
  field line, but curving. Just missed hitting
• 1:45:09
  the foul ball. That ball went pretty far. And
• 1:45:13
  it's two balls, two strikes. Well, Dale Long,
• 1:45:16
  our old buddy, would have been the first left
• 1:45:19
  -hand catcher in baseball if they'd let him.
• 1:45:21
  How you doing, Dale? Thanks, Bill. Great. Good.
• 1:45:23
  Now, isn't that true that you were trying out
• 1:45:25
  with the Pirates, was it, catching left -handers?
• 1:45:28
  In 1951, Mr. Rickey tried to make a left -handed
• 1:45:30
  catcher out of me. Well, there's no rule against
• 1:45:32
  it, is there? No, not actually. I think it's
• 1:45:34
  just a matter of complicating and custom. Why,
• 1:45:39
  it is a 2 -2 pitch to White. Line drive wide
• 1:45:42
  at downward for the hour. So, it's three up,
• 1:45:48
  three down, and the score now at the end of six
• 1:45:50
  full innings, the Tigers won and the Yankees
• 1:45:54
  nothing. Well, as we told you, we're talking
• 1:45:55
  with Dale Long here, and Dale, you left baseball,
• 1:45:59
  you started to make umpiring a career, and what
• 1:46:02
  happened? It's not an easy transition, Phil.
• 1:46:07
  I don't know. I just felt like last year I was
• 1:46:10
  in the International League and Jim Bowden come
• 1:46:12
  down to pitch. Well, Jim was a teammate of mine.
• 1:46:14
  Well, you know who's going to get the break from
• 1:46:15
  me. And I was no kid going into it. I just didn't
• 1:46:23
  care for it that much. I work for Susan Roebuck
• 1:46:26
  now, and I got a good job with them. Not on the
• 1:46:29
  basis of Ted Williams. Well, I just want to mention
• 1:46:31
  Williamson Farmer. I'm a peon. I work. Well,
• 1:46:34
  you're in good company, though, and, you know,
• 1:46:36
  a little of that might rub off, Bill. Right,
• 1:46:38
  but I sure miss baseball, Bill. Oh, I guess you
• 1:46:40
  do. It's a great affiliation. It certainly has
• 1:46:43
  been, and it always gives you good entree into
• 1:46:45
  places where you might not be able to get. I
• 1:46:48
  run a sports program, too, you know. No kidding?
• 1:46:50
  Oh, wonderful. This is out of the Albany station
• 1:46:52
  up in Albany, New York. Do you ever see Jeff
• 1:46:55
  Davis up there when you're up there? I sure do.
• 1:46:57
  Are you on the same station with Jeff? No, he's
• 1:46:58
  on another WEE, and I'm WPTR. Jeff just got another
• 1:47:03
  job, and he's doing very well. I know he is,
• 1:47:06
  and he's a great man. But that's interesting.
• 1:47:09
  Is it a regular sport cast? Do you give scores
• 1:47:12
  or interviews? Five minutes a night, five nights
• 1:47:15
  a week. And it's all new to me, believe me. I
• 1:47:18
  said it. Stick with it, because it's a wonderful
• 1:47:20
  thing to do. And it keeps you in contact with
• 1:47:23
  all the sports anyway. We're getting ready for
• 1:47:27
  the top of the seventh inning. Mambo's first
• 1:47:29
  pitch to Orla. Hit high in the air to center
• 1:47:31
  field. Robinson going back. Backpedaling fast.
• 1:47:34
  He's there now and makes the catch. And Orla
• 1:47:38
  hit that ball over 400 feet. But that's Death
• 1:47:40
  Valley here at Yankee Stadium. And it's a long
• 1:47:43
  out, one away. Orla one for one. Brings up Joe
• 1:47:46
  Sparma. Bounce to short and bounce to third.
• 1:48:03
  All right, Mambo turns around. Wants to make
• 1:48:05
  sure that Robinson has come back from that long
• 1:48:07
  run in center field. Here's the first pitch.
• 1:48:12
  And it's popped foul in back of the plate near
• 1:48:15
  the screen. Gibbs coming back and makes the catch
• 1:48:18
  right in front of the screen. And, Dale, that's
• 1:48:21
  got to be one of the toughest plays for a catcher.
• 1:48:23
  Sure is. In fact, it's a good one to make there
• 1:48:26
  because the ball is coming back into him. Jake
• 1:48:29
  played it real well. He did. You know, Bill Kane
• 1:48:33
  put a piece of gum down there, and he says Dale
• 1:48:35
  put his gum on the table just like he used to
• 1:48:37
  put on the cap. So you and I were from that same
• 1:48:40
  school, huh? Putting the gum on the button of
• 1:48:41
  the cap? Listen, Bill, my father used to bring
• 1:48:44
  me out and watch you play in St. Louis. That's
• 1:48:47
  where I first saw the gum on the cap. Okay, buddy.
• 1:48:52
  Here's Dick McCullough. Struck out, hit to the
• 1:48:55
  box, and was thrown out by Jake Yip. 0 for 3
• 1:48:58
  for McCullough. Two out, nobody on. 1 -0 Detroit
• 1:49:01
  leads top of the set. A wind -up by Mambo. His
• 1:49:08
  curve is low. Ball one. By the way, does that
• 1:49:10
  record that you held still hold hitting consecutive
• 1:49:15
  home runs in consecutive days? It sure does.
• 1:49:17
  How many? It was eight in eight games. Eight
• 1:49:20
  in eight games. Everything I got going for me.
• 1:49:24
  If they break that, then I can fly. Well, listen,
• 1:49:27
  that's quite a record. That's pretty tough to
• 1:49:28
  break. Well, I was very, very fortunate. No,
• 1:49:32
  no. When you get on a hot streak, though, I guess
• 1:49:34
  you don't care who's pitching or where the ball
• 1:49:36
  is. That's true. Very true. All right, two balls,
• 1:49:40
  no strikes on McCullough. We're talking with
• 1:49:41
  Dale Long. The 2 -0 delivery. He runs up to Butt,
• 1:49:47
  takes it, and man, Gibbs and Mambo didn't like
• 1:49:50
  that call. I was talking to Ralph Houseville
• 1:49:53
  about this ballpark. Isn't it beautiful? Oh,
• 1:49:55
  it is. And they've really fixed it up. It is,
• 1:49:59
  even before they repainted it and refurbished
• 1:50:01
  it. But it still gives everybody a big thrill.
• 1:50:04
  And those rookies, when they first come in, they
• 1:50:06
  almost faint. The 3 -0 pitch right down the middle.
• 1:50:09
  Strike call, 3 -1. A well -pitten call game by
• 1:50:18
  Mambo Kidd and Sparma. Sparma with the edge right
• 1:50:22
  now, a 1 -0 lead. Slow curve is in there, and
• 1:50:27
  McCullough bluffed a bunt. It's 3 -2. Something
• 1:50:34
  you never used to see in the old days, Dale,
• 1:50:36
  a 3 -1 pitch in a slow curve ball. That's where
• 1:50:39
  the whole trend comes today. Really, it's baffling
• 1:50:43
  how these boys can throw it like that. You used
• 1:50:45
  to go to the fastball. Oh, sure. Here's the payoff
• 1:50:48
  pitch. Another slow curve popped up. Bill Robinson
• 1:50:52
  and Roy White effort. Robinson calls. and makes
• 1:50:56
  the catch. So, again, it's three up and three
• 1:50:59
  down, and the score now, at the end of six and
• 1:51:03
  a half innings, Detroit one and the Yankees nothing.
• 1:51:08
  Hey, kids, and old -timers, too, how would you
• 1:51:10
  like to hear the voice of the Babe or the Iron
• 1:51:12
  Horse, Demage, Reynolds, Roth, and Ruffing, all
• 1:51:15
  the other Yankee greats, merely by picking up
• 1:51:17
  a phone and listening? Well, it's just that easy.
• 1:51:20
  The Yankee Hall of Fame at Yankee Stadium is
• 1:51:22
  filled with the voices of Yankee players who
• 1:51:25
  were the glory of their time. Just wait until
• 1:51:27
  you hear the play -by -play account of Mickey
• 1:51:29
  hitting his 500th homer or Casey telling you
• 1:51:31
  about his greatest baseball thrill or the great
• 1:51:34
  Lou Gehrig making his sad farewell to baseball.
• 1:51:36
  Don't miss your chance to hear the most unforgettable
• 1:51:39
  moments in baseball as told by baseball's most
• 1:51:42
  unforgettable heroes. You can hear them in the
• 1:51:45
  Yankee Hall of Fame at Yankee Stadium. And just
• 1:51:49
  a word to you moms and dads listening, when you
• 1:51:51
  bring the youngsters out to Yankee Stadium to
• 1:51:53
  see the Yankees this year, they'll have a chance
• 1:51:54
  to see Mickey Mantle and all the greats of today.
• 1:51:57
  Be sure to take those youngsters by the Hall
• 1:51:59
  of Fame. Let them listen to the voices of some
• 1:52:01
  of the greatest ballplayers of all time. Well,
• 1:52:15
  we get ready for the bottom of the seventh inning.
• 1:52:17
  It'll be Bill Robinson, Steve Whitaker, and Bobby
• 1:52:20
  Cox to face Joe Farmer. Robinson walked and bounced
• 1:52:24
  to the shortstop. You can hear the youngsters
• 1:52:26
  yelling here, and there are lots of them here
• 1:52:29
  today. Cap day today at Yankee Stadium. They're
• 1:52:32
  all waving their Yankee caps. The pitch to Robinson,
• 1:52:36
  almost hit him. Man, he had to jump back in a
• 1:52:39
  hurry. Ball one. But we told his farming he liked
• 1:52:43
  to use that brushback pitch. But at least he
• 1:52:46
  keeps it from the shoulders on down. Here's the
• 1:52:51
  1 -0 delivery. Hits a short left field, and that
• 1:52:54
  ball's going to drop in for the first hit for
• 1:52:56
  the Yankees. Robinson trying to throw, and he's
• 1:53:01
  out at second base, and he's arguing down there.
• 1:53:05
  A close play at second base, and what a throw
• 1:53:08
  by Jim Northrup. The tag by McCullough. It had
• 1:53:14
  to be a perfect throw. And Robinson didn't think
• 1:53:18
  he was out. But Jim Northrup threw a strike to
• 1:53:23
  Dittmer, call up, and Robinson is out trying
• 1:53:26
  to stretch the single or double. Man, he called
• 1:53:32
  that play quick down there. Ooh, I'd hate to
• 1:53:34
  be an umpire on that one, Dale. I don't know.
• 1:53:37
  They teach you to wait that little instant. You
• 1:53:40
  know, for Baker's call, he seemed like he had
• 1:53:42
  his arm up before he even got there. And that's
• 1:53:44
  the tough thing for umpires. They make a decision
• 1:53:47
  sometimes beforehand, and they call it automatically.
• 1:53:51
  Guys only count horseshoes. Yes, you're right.
• 1:53:54
  There's a strike to Whitaker who has walked twice.
• 1:53:58
  But that's interesting. They do teach you to
• 1:54:00
  hesitate before you make that call. Right. You've
• 1:54:04
  got to have that hesitation there and let it
• 1:54:06
  happen. Let it happen first. Right, another curve
• 1:54:09
  over strike two, and Whittaker didn't like that
• 1:54:11
  call. Well, I noticed it with several of the
• 1:54:13
  umpires now behind the plate. And for a while,
• 1:54:16
  I was jumping the gun. I'd say ball one, but
• 1:54:21
  then like Humont and a couple other ones, they'll
• 1:54:23
  wait that fraction of a second and then put the
• 1:54:25
  right hand up. So I had to time myself with them.
• 1:54:28
  That's good. You know, that's why they go to
• 1:54:29
  spring training, too. They have to pick up their
• 1:54:31
  timing just like the players do. Right. It's
• 1:54:33
  not as easy to just come out of bed. And call
• 1:54:35
  a pitch. All right. All right. Two strikes on
• 1:54:37
  Whitaker. One out. Nobody on. Curve. Bounce to
• 1:54:41
  the right side. McAuliffe comes in. One hand
• 1:54:43
  to flip to Cash in time. But the Yankees get
• 1:54:48
  their first set of the game. Bill Robinson trying
• 1:54:50
  to stretch it into a double is thrown out on
• 1:54:53
  a very close play at second base. Here's Bobby
• 1:54:56
  Cox. Bounce to third. Hit into a double play.
• 1:55:03
  Are there any kids around, Darrell, that you
• 1:55:05
  umpired against that are up in the big leagues
• 1:55:07
  now? Oh, yes. Mike Ferraro was at Syracuse last
• 1:55:11
  year and Toledo the year before. Bill Robinson.
• 1:55:16
  Ray Oiler was at Syracuse two years ago. Sure,
• 1:55:20
  a great heartwarming to see these fellows make
• 1:55:22
  it. So just what I was going to say, it must
• 1:55:24
  be wonderful to see these kids in the minors,
• 1:55:27
  raw rookies, and then... develop enough to get
• 1:55:30
  to the big leagues. Oh, yeah. They have a lot
• 1:55:32
  of them. Steve Womack, a lot of the Yankee pitchers
• 1:55:35
  go down to the International League. Uh -huh.
• 1:55:39
  All right, Bobby Cox has a count of no balls
• 1:55:41
  and two strikes on him with two outs. Nobody
• 1:55:44
  on here in the bottom of the seventh, and the
• 1:55:46
  Tigers leading one to nothing. The Tigers scored
• 1:55:48
  that one run in the fourth inning. Bobby Cox
• 1:55:51
  is funny, Phil. He was at Richmond last year
• 1:55:54
  when I was down there, and if a ball comes in
• 1:55:56
  and he thinks it's a ball, he hollers, no. No
• 1:55:58
  kidding. The umpires themselves. It was really
• 1:56:00
  shocked me when he first did it to me. Uh -huh.
• 1:56:03
  Here's the two -strike pitch. A bouncing ball
• 1:56:06
  foul. Frank Crescetti. One hand at the old cross.
• 1:56:09
  Hasn't missed one yet. He hasn't missed one.
• 1:56:11
  It doesn't look the same as when he broke in
• 1:56:12
  in 31. You remember that, right? Oh, come on.
• 1:56:15
  He sure hasn't changed. No, he hasn't. Still
• 1:56:20
  0 -2 on Bobby Cox. Being an umpire, though, I
• 1:56:29
  imagine you don't like the ballplayers arguing
• 1:56:32
  too much on pitches. I mean, the fans start getting
• 1:56:34
  on you then, don't they? Well, they're a little
• 1:56:37
  more understanding. I think I was more understanding
• 1:56:38
  than most of the umpires. I know how tough it
• 1:56:40
  is to get up here, Phil. It's not easy. Right.
• 1:56:43
  The pitch, a curve, and he sits down. It's high
• 1:56:46
  and inside, one ball, two strikes. You don't
• 1:56:48
  mind a legitimate break, but a fellow that's
• 1:56:50
  trying to find it out, he's not going to make
• 1:56:52
  a goat out of you, and that's the guys you look
• 1:56:54
  out for. By the way, what did you say you did
• 1:56:59
  with Sears robots? I'm in commercial sales. I
• 1:57:02
  sell for them. Oh. Everything? We got 200 ,000
• 1:57:07
  items. Why, here's the one -two delivery. Low
• 1:57:12
  ball two, two and two. On deck, Gene Michael.
• 1:57:27
  Palmer into the windup. The pitch. There's a
• 1:57:30
  base hit to left field. Bobby Cox gets his first
• 1:57:33
  major league base hit of the Yankees. A bullet
• 1:57:36
  to left field. Man, I bet he's happy. That first
• 1:57:41
  hit. That first hit sometimes is a long time
• 1:57:45
  coming. And we're going to have a pinch hit.
• 1:57:51
  Tommy Tresh is coming up to bat for Gene Michael.
• 1:57:58
  So Fran goes out to the mound and talks with
• 1:58:01
  Farmer. So the Tigers got a big break here when
• 1:58:03
  Bill Robinson's singling, leading off the inning,
• 1:58:06
  tried to stretch it into a double and was thrown
• 1:58:08
  out. So it's two out now with Bobby Cox at first
• 1:58:13
  base. Bobby walking around down there. I don't
• 1:58:15
  know whether he pulled a muscle or anything.
• 1:58:17
  But now Tommy Trey is batting for Gene Michael.
• 1:58:23
  Gene was 0 -2 while he was in there. Tommy's
• 1:58:27
  been about 46 times, 7 hits, 1 double, 1 homer.
• 1:58:30
  He has 7 RBI. 1 -0 Detroit lead. Fresh steps
• 1:58:42
  in. Pounding the bat on the plate. Cash holds
• 1:58:48
  first against Cox. Here's the stretch. The pitch
• 1:58:56
  low. Ball one. Do you remember your first big
• 1:58:59
  league hit? Oh, I'll never forget it. It was
• 1:59:02
  a bunt against the Philadelphia Athletics when
• 1:59:04
  they were in. Pete Sulu was playing third. Do
• 1:59:07
  you? No, I remember mine. Who'd you get it off?
• 1:59:11
  Evo Blackwell. Oh, well, you were left -handed.
• 1:59:14
  Not too many right -handers got hit on him. The
• 1:59:17
  pitch, a foul at the plate. It hit Tommy in the
• 1:59:19
  leg. One ball, one strike. How many clubs did
• 1:59:24
  you play with, Dale, in your Major League career?
• 1:59:27
  Six. Six? And five in the National, one in the
• 1:59:30
  American? No, I was two. I played with Washington.
• 1:59:33
  Oh, that's right. I'm on the expansion now. Uh
• 1:59:35
  -huh. When they had the expanding clubs. Right.
• 1:59:37
  How long were you with the Yankees? I was here
• 1:59:40
  twice, three years. Did a great job pinch hitting.
• 1:59:46
  I remember that. All right, Cox leads the way
• 1:59:48
  at first base. The stretch. The pitch outside.
• 1:59:53
  Two balls and a strike. Tigers 1, Yankees nothing.
• 2:00:02
  Tigers with six hits, Yankees with two. Each
• 2:00:04
  team has made one error. On deck, Bill Mambo
• 2:00:08
  -Kett. The stretch by Palmer. Cox leads away.
• 2:00:17
  Powell's tip off the shin guard of Bill Tran.
• 2:00:21
  The count is even at two and two. Two balls,
• 2:00:24
  two strikes, and two outs. Oh, a new ball thrown
• 2:00:31
  out to Joe Spalmer. Another big ball game to
• 2:00:36
  go after this one. Joe Spalmer still nonchalantly
• 2:00:48
  blowing bubbles out of the mound. Leans in to
• 2:00:53
  get the sign. Now he's ready. His pitch inside,
• 2:01:00
  and Tommy almost stepped into that fast one.
• 2:01:02
  It's three balls, two strikes. Cox will be off
• 2:01:05
  with the pitch, which gives the Yankees a little
• 2:01:07
  edge right here. He'll be running. Quick score
• 2:01:10
  on a long single. Cash now moves in back of the
• 2:01:17
  runner at first base. Got to be careful here.
• 2:01:19
  They might put a play on. Now we're ready for
• 2:01:25
  the payoff pitch. There goes Cox. The curve is
• 2:01:29
  swung at and missed. Strike three. As he changed
• 2:01:33
  up on a curve ball and had Trish out in front.
• 2:01:36
  It's all for the Yankees. No runs. Two hits.
• 2:01:40
  No tag errors. One man left. And at the end of
• 2:01:44
  seven full innings, it's Detroit one and the
• 2:01:47
  Yankees nothing. If you were born poor. In a
• 2:01:53
  city slum or a migrant worker camp, a worn -out
• 2:01:56
  farm or an Indian reservation, your whole perspective
• 2:02:00
  is different. You think of the rest of America
• 2:02:02
  as something quite separate from you. What do
• 2:02:05
  the people out there know about you? What do
• 2:02:07
  they care? Well, there are men and women, young
• 2:02:11
  and old, who care enough to spend a year of their
• 2:02:15
  lives full -time concentrating on spreading around
• 2:02:18
  some opportunity. They are VISTA volunteers.
• 2:02:22
  Lucky people who've had the breaks and who want
• 2:02:26
  to help give somebody else a break. Uncle Sam
• 2:02:28
  pays them $50 a month plus expenses so they don't
• 2:02:31
  do it for the money. They do it because they
• 2:02:34
  want to be a part of making America greater still.
• 2:02:38
  Vista. Volunteers in service to America. Write
• 2:02:42
  to Vista Box B, Washington, D .C. We're open
• 2:02:49
  tomorrow, all right? has gone in to play shortstop
• 2:02:51
  in place of Gene Michaels. Right now on New York
• 2:02:56
  Yankee Baseball, we pause for station identification.
• 2:03:01
  Harry Downey asks you to join me weekdays, 3
• 2:03:04
  to 6 p .m. here on WGY 810 on your dials connected.
• 2:03:15
  All right, Mickey Stanley has struck out singular
• 2:03:17
  center and reached on an error. Right -hand batter.
• 2:03:26
  Mambo's pitch, a bouncer foul to the left of
• 2:03:28
  the plate. Strike one. Bobby Cox hustles in to
• 2:03:31
  pick it up. Outfield straightaway on Stanley.
• 2:03:47
  On deck, Al Kaline. Pitch by Mambo, sidearm curve,
• 2:03:53
  foul down the left field line, going back into
• 2:03:56
  the stands and out of play. Nothing in two. Tony,
• 2:04:04
  we've been chatting here with Dale Long a little
• 2:04:06
  bit. Dale, you look in as good a shape as you
• 2:04:08
  did when you were playing. What are you doing?
• 2:04:10
  Well, I got a few gray hairs, Bill. No, I don't
• 2:04:13
  mean I got them, too. I mean you're... Your body
• 2:04:16
  looks pretty good. Well, I play a little golf.
• 2:04:19
  I enjoy the crowd. No kidding. Left -handed?
• 2:04:21
  Oh, yeah. I'm a hacker. The pitch is just outside.
• 2:04:25
  One ball, two strikes. You ever run into Ted
• 2:04:30
  Williams when he travels? Yes, Ted comes around
• 2:04:33
  once in a while. I've talked to him a couple
• 2:04:35
  times. He's put on a few puns. Yes, I noticed.
• 2:04:39
  He's a little roly -poly right now. I've been
• 2:04:42
  very active up in, I now live up in Albany, New
• 2:04:45
  York, Saratoga County. And I pull around a little
• 2:04:51
  bit of basketball and baseball now. It's in season.
• 2:04:55
  It's a nice part of the country. My daughter
• 2:04:57
  went to school there for a while at Skidmore
• 2:04:59
  up in that area. It's a good thing you know now
• 2:05:02
  because my son goes to Union. And they have a
• 2:05:05
  shuttle between Union College and Skidmore. Check
• 2:05:09
  swing, ground ball, a mantle at first. Mickey's
• 2:05:11
  up with it. He'll step on the bag. And it's one
• 2:05:14
  away. By the way, have you seen Mickey at first
• 2:05:16
  base at all other than this game? No. He looks
• 2:05:20
  better and better over there. I got a letter
• 2:05:23
  from him last year, and he said I had it so followed
• 2:05:25
  up nobody could play it. But he said he finally
• 2:05:27
  smoothed it out, and now it's all right again.
• 2:05:30
  But he has surprised so many people with his
• 2:05:33
  play at first base. Well, it's the most vulnerable
• 2:05:38
  spot. It can be played by most anybody. And Mickey's
• 2:05:42
  very adaptive baseball. I think he could do anything
• 2:05:44
  if he put his heart to it. Oh, yes. Anyway. Al
• 2:05:47
  Kaline, a single fly to center bounce is short.
• 2:05:50
  Takes the pitch a little high. Ball one. Yeah.
• 2:05:59
  Mambo gets the sign from Gibbs. Pitch swing and
• 2:06:03
  a foul tip and it makes Gibbs. One ball, one
• 2:06:07
  strike. Jake flinched a little bit. Jake's got
• 2:06:09
  the meat in there again. He's got a magnet in
• 2:06:13
  that hand of his. He gets hit with more foul
• 2:06:15
  tips. Shaking hands with him is like shaking
• 2:06:18
  hands with a bag full of walnuts. Most catches
• 2:06:22
  are like that, don't you agree? The best one
• 2:06:25
  I've seen is Jim Hegan. Oh, he was great. As
• 2:06:28
  they slow ground ball to third, it kicks foul.
• 2:06:31
  They would not have gotten K -line on that one.
• 2:06:33
  Cox was playing deep. It's one ball, two strikes.
• 2:06:35
  That's right. Jim was one of the most graceful
• 2:06:39
  catchers. He reminded me a lot of Bill Dickey
• 2:06:40
  behind the plate. Played like a shortstop, really.
• 2:06:43
  There was none of this bulwark of blocking the
• 2:06:45
  ball. But you remember he caught four 20 -game
• 2:06:48
  winners and 11 and 13. I remember. We had to
• 2:06:51
  face them. One right after the other. You never
• 2:06:54
  had a breather with those guys. He was a picture
• 2:06:56
  catcher. Yes, he was. All right. It's one ball,
• 2:07:01
  two strikes on Kaline. One out. As nobody on,
• 2:07:04
  Detroit leads 1 -0 in the top of the eighth.
• 2:07:09
  Pitched by Mambo. Foul back off the screen. On
• 2:07:16
  deck, Bill Friend. Now the wind -up. Curve is
• 2:07:32
  low and outside. Two and two. Two balls, two
• 2:07:38
  strikes, one out. Mambo ready again. A slow curve
• 2:07:48
  hit on the ground hard. Cox, nice play. A long
• 2:07:51
  throw. In time to get Kaline. And Bobby Cox did
• 2:07:56
  not flinch. That ball was hit like a bullet.
• 2:07:58
  One hop. Bobby got his body right in front of
• 2:08:01
  the ball, put his glove right at the belt, and
• 2:08:03
  it was right in there. Two out and three in the
• 2:08:06
  batter. Three in his double, popped the second,
• 2:08:08
  and struck out. Big right -hand hitting catcher.
• 2:08:22
  On deck, Norm Cash. Here's the pitch to Frehan.
• 2:08:28
  It's on the inside corner. Strike one call. It's
• 2:08:34
  a shame, but this could be the last inning of
• 2:08:36
  pitching for Bill Monboquette. He is scheduled
• 2:08:38
  to lead off in the bottom of the eighth inning.
• 2:08:43
  He's had quite a year for the Yankees. The one
• 2:08:47
  -strike pitch. A bounce to the third base. Cox
• 2:08:49
  has the ball. Fires to Mantle in time. Another
• 2:08:53
  one, two, three inning, the third in a row for
• 2:08:56
  Mambo against Detroit. And the score now at the
• 2:08:59
  end of seven and a half innings, Detroit won
• 2:09:01
  and the Yankees nothing. Well, we're talking
• 2:09:05
  with Dale Long up here, and Dale has just taken
• 2:09:08
  a bite of a delicious sandwich that I'm going
• 2:09:10
  to do when this game is over. I'll never forget
• 2:09:12
  the day I was playing out here in a doubleheader,
• 2:09:14
  and some guy walked out, and I turned around,
• 2:09:16
  he scared me, he was on the field. And he had
• 2:09:18
  a Civil War uniform on. He says, where's those
• 2:09:21
  damn Yankees? No kidding. We had some characters
• 2:09:24
  run out on the field. Right now, here's a pretty
• 2:09:28
  good young ball player, Andy Kosko, who will
• 2:09:30
  be pinch hitting for Bill Mambo Kess. So Mambo
• 2:09:35
  worth eight real fine innings again. He allowed
• 2:09:39
  six hits. He did not walk a man, struck out five,
• 2:09:43
  and allowed just the one run. So Andy Kosko comes
• 2:09:45
  on. The Yankees trailing by one here in the bottom
• 2:09:49
  of the eighth inning. Andy has been up six times
• 2:09:55
  with two base hits. Takes the curve over, strike
• 2:09:58
  one call. Andy has not started a game. He has
• 2:10:03
  been used just as a pinch hitter. Outfield plays
• 2:10:10
  him straight away. Can't score right hand batter.
• 2:10:20
  The one strike pitch, a curve low. He checked
• 2:10:22
  his swing in time. One ball, one strike. Farmer
• 2:10:34
  gets the sign from Friend. Rocks back. Best ball.
• 2:10:39
  Base hit to center field. Costco hit a bullet
• 2:10:42
  right up the middle. So, Andy's third pinch hit
• 2:10:48
  this year. The third hit off Farmer. And now
• 2:10:52
  the top of the Yankee order. Horace Clark, Jake
• 2:10:55
  Gibson, Mickey Mantle to follow. Ralph Falk has
• 2:11:00
  said so often one reason the Yankees are playing
• 2:11:03
  so much better balls is because of the bench
• 2:11:05
  he has right now. It's the best bench he's had
• 2:11:07
  since 1964. That was the year that Yogi Berra
• 2:11:12
  managed the Yankees to a pennant, their last
• 2:11:14
  one. All right, Horace Clark, 0 -3 in the ballgame.
• 2:11:17
  Bounced a short, twice, hit back to the box.
• 2:11:20
  Work moves into third base. Costco leads the
• 2:11:23
  way. Here's the stretch. The pitch. He squares.
• 2:11:26
  Bumps the ball. It's a dandy. Farmer has to go
• 2:11:28
  to first. In time, almost threw the ball in a
• 2:11:31
  right field, but the sacrifice is successful.
• 2:11:34
  They've moved Costco to second base. The play
• 2:11:38
  goes from one to four. The pitcher to the second
• 2:11:40
  baseman covering. And it brings up Jake Gitt.
• 2:11:57
  All right, Jake gives the batter. Jake has popped
• 2:12:02
  the third, bounced it short, and then was robbed
• 2:12:06
  of a base hit on a fine play by Ray Oil. Andy
• 2:12:09
  Kosko, the potential time run at second base,
• 2:12:12
  and on deck, Mickey Mantle. The crowd is building
• 2:12:15
  up for when Mantle comes to the plate. He pitched
• 2:12:20
  to Gibbs, a bouncer right back to Palmer. He
• 2:12:22
  wheels. Throws to first, so he had. Costco hung
• 2:12:25
  up between second and third, but did not throw.
• 2:12:28
  And here comes Mantle. Mickey Mantle, or his
• 2:12:54
  walk, reached on an error and bounced to first.
• 2:12:58
  Pascoe at second was too odd. We're in the bottom
• 2:13:00
  of the eighth. Detroit leading 1 -0. Here's a
• 2:13:04
  stretch by Spalmer. His pitch. Ah, he's right.
• 2:13:08
  The deep left field. Way back. Way back. in deep
• 2:13:23
  left field, and the ball game is tied up, one
• 2:13:27
  apiece. Holy cow, did he hit that one in the
• 2:13:33
  opposite field. That ball was over 400 feet.
• 2:13:40
  It bounced on the running track and then into
• 2:13:43
  the bleachers. It looked like it went in on a
• 2:13:45
  fly. The ball game is tied up, 1 -1, and this
• 2:13:49
  crowd is standing here at... Oh, man, did he
• 2:13:55
  tag that one. No. And you just heard the echo
• 2:14:05
  of that blast, that mantle hit of Firecracker.
• 2:14:08
  Here comes Mayo Smith out. It'll give me a chance
• 2:14:12
  to catch my breath. One of the longest opposite
• 2:14:16
  field baseballs ever hit. That ball was close
• 2:14:22
  to 450 feet to left field. It took one bounce
• 2:14:27
  over the auxiliary scoreboard and into the bleachers,
• 2:14:30
  and Farmer is coming out. And that's enough to
• 2:14:34
  shake anybody up. Mickey Mantle. I mean, you
• 2:14:41
  just can't say enough about this guy. Holy cow,
• 2:14:46
  did he hit that one, and they want a new pitcher
• 2:14:48
  out there. So the Yankees now were hitless up
• 2:14:58
  to the seventh inning when they got two hits,
• 2:15:01
  Robinson and Cox, but didn't score. Here in the
• 2:15:03
  eighth, Andy Kosko started the rally. Pink hitting
• 2:15:07
  for Bill Monboquette. And Kosko lined a single
• 2:15:11
  to center. Then Clark sacrificed in the second.
• 2:15:14
  Gibbs hit back to the box. Kosko held second.
• 2:15:17
  And on the first pitch to Mantle. Mickey hit
• 2:15:20
  one nine miles to left field. It took one bounce
• 2:15:23
  into the bleachers. And the ball game is tied
• 2:15:27
  up with two outs. Mantle at second and Roy White
• 2:15:32
  the batter and a new pitcher coming in for the
• 2:15:36
  Tigers. Well, Mr. Long, have you ever seen any
• 2:15:40
  ball or many balls hit to the opposite field
• 2:15:43
  that far? I saw a couple of them and he hit them
• 2:15:46
  all. Okay, you scared me there for a second,
• 2:15:51
  because I can never remember one being hit to
• 2:15:53
  the opposite field that far, outside of Mantle.
• 2:15:57
  I'm not talking about the homers he hit World
• 2:15:59
  Series in Pittsburgh and in Ebbets Field and
• 2:16:03
  in every place he played. He hit him a long way.
• 2:16:07
  I saw him hit one in Cleveland one day the same
• 2:16:10
  way, opposite with right -handed, though. And
• 2:16:12
  he hit it on top of the Cleveland bullpen. That's
• 2:16:15
  right. I remember that one. He's awful strong.
• 2:16:19
  Well, I'm glad I came today to witness that.
• 2:16:22
  Well, I'm glad you came because you said you
• 2:16:25
  were the good luck charm for Cox to get his first
• 2:16:27
  base hit. And you're here now with Mantle hitting
• 2:16:30
  that tremendous double. And John Warden is coming
• 2:16:36
  on. Jonathan Edgar Warden Jr. Six feet tall,
• 2:16:42
  205 pounds. He's only played three years of professional
• 2:16:47
  ball. In 66, he was with Daytona Beach. In 67,
• 2:16:51
  with Waukee Mountain. He has won three and lost
• 2:16:56
  none. And he's only been in three ballgames.
• 2:17:00
  This is his fourth appearance of the year. He's
• 2:17:03
  only pitched a total of three and a third innings.
• 2:17:08
  Has not allowed a run. Has allowed just one hit.
• 2:17:12
  Walked two, struck out one. Man, I'd say he came
• 2:17:16
  in at the right time and got the job done, Dal.
• 2:17:19
  Many times, it looks like. Maybe we can tie one
• 2:17:24
  on him here, Phil. Make them three in one. Would
• 2:17:28
  you do a little talk and do tell some stories
• 2:17:30
  or sell some Sears merchandise while I get my
• 2:17:32
  breath back? I yelled so loud on that ball mantel
• 2:17:35
  hit first I thought it was in the seat. But then
• 2:17:38
  I got dizzy, you know, I have low blood pressure
• 2:17:39
  and I yelled too loud and jumped up too quick.
• 2:17:42
  You didn't jump very high because you're not
• 2:17:44
  too big, you know. It's sure great to be down
• 2:17:49
  here, Phil, and see this fine crowd that turned
• 2:17:51
  out today for a cap day at United Stadium. That's
• 2:17:53
  another thing you did. You brought the biggest
• 2:17:55
  crowd of the year here. I don't know. I like
• 2:17:58
  to come down here during the week when it's all
• 2:18:00
  nice and quiet and you got it to yourself, but
• 2:18:03
  these kids today are really having the ball.
• 2:18:05
  Oh, they are. There's no better place to bring
• 2:18:07
  kids, you know, down into a ballpark. Really,
• 2:18:10
  that's quite an education. And they really enjoy
• 2:18:13
  themselves. I brought three little boys with
• 2:18:15
  me today. Did you? Yeah. Bobby and Craig Bauer
• 2:18:18
  and Joey Rossetti from Albany. Sure. And they're
• 2:18:22
  sitting down here in the box seats. I can't get
• 2:18:24
  them to come with me because they're enjoying
• 2:18:26
  the game too much. All right, here's Roy White
• 2:18:28
  batting right -handed against Lawton. He takes
• 2:18:30
  the pitch. High ball one. Mickey Mantle at second
• 2:18:35
  base. Mickey ties the ball game up. With a tremendous
• 2:18:42
  double. Roy White is 0 -3 in the ballgame. The
• 2:18:51
  pitch is low, ball two. Two balls. Appropriate
• 2:18:56
  sign up here, Phil. Socket to him, Nick. Yes,
• 2:18:59
  he did. Well, you know, all those signs out there,
• 2:19:02
  there's one up there that he just narrowly missed.
• 2:19:05
  He said, get your 522nd homer today. And he came
• 2:19:08
  as close as you could without making it a home
• 2:19:11
  run. Any other ball, park a home run. The 2 -0
• 2:19:15
  pitch to White. A base hit to left field. Mickey
• 2:19:17
  Mantle. Around third. They're waving him in.
• 2:19:20
  He has to throw. He flies and he's in there.
• 2:19:23
  He's taken the plate. And the Yankees lead 2
• 2:19:27
  -0. A good slide by Mickey Mantle on a throw
• 2:19:32
  by Norfolk that was just a little high. And the
• 2:19:35
  Yankees lead 2 -1. Roy White coming through with
• 2:19:39
  a clutch single to left field. And Northrup charged
• 2:19:44
  that ball, knowing that Mantle has trouble rounding
• 2:19:47
  the bases. And Mickey did, but he put on the
• 2:19:50
  speed halfway between home and third. And a beautiful
• 2:19:53
  slide. You know what I like about this slide,
• 2:19:55
  Dale? He did not hook into the plate. He kept
• 2:19:57
  that left foot out straight and hit the bag just
• 2:20:00
  before Green made the tag. Shortest distance.
• 2:20:03
  Right. Holy cow. The Yankees lead 2 -1, and they're
• 2:20:13
  going to put Bill Robinson on and pitch to Whitaker.
• 2:20:19
  Bill Robinson getting an intentional pass. With
• 2:20:28
  Roy White, who went to second base on the throat
• 2:20:30
  of the plate. Bill White. Leading the major leagues
• 2:20:36
  in hitting before today's game gets his first
• 2:20:38
  hit. He's one for four. What a big RBI. I wish
• 2:20:49
  they wouldn't shoot those firecrackers off. Not
• 2:20:51
  just because it makes me jump, but it's dangerous.
• 2:20:54
  They're throwing down on the field. You remember
• 2:20:59
  Sam Nair and Phil? He was the coach for the Pirates.
• 2:21:01
  Uh -huh. He lost eyesight in one of his eyes
• 2:21:04
  in Brooklyn one time. Somebody dropped a firecracker
• 2:21:07
  out. No kidding. It exploded just about parallel
• 2:21:09
  with his head. It's not really right. Everybody
• 2:21:13
  likes a nice noise and a good time. There's a
• 2:21:16
  time and place for it. You're right. It's not
• 2:21:18
  right. Steve Whitaker has walked twice, bounced
• 2:21:22
  to second base. Brian is out to the mound. Talking
• 2:21:27
  with John Warden, who relieved Joe Farmer. You
• 2:21:34
  can hear the kids charging. By White at second.
• 2:21:41
  Robinson at first. Two out. A stretch by Ward.
• 2:21:49
  Pitch to Whitaker. Strike on the outside corner.
• 2:21:55
  Bill Robinson got the first Yankee hit in this
• 2:21:58
  game in the seventh inning. Knox got a hit. Haskell
• 2:22:03
  got a hit. Mantle got the big hit of the ballgame.
• 2:22:05
  And then White. Single to drive in Mickey. The
• 2:22:09
  Yankees lead 2 -1. The stretch by Warden. The
• 2:22:12
  pitch outside. One ball, one strike. He hangs
• 2:22:16
  in there pretty good, Phil. He does. You know,
• 2:22:18
  they've changed his stance, Dale. You remember
• 2:22:20
  they used to have a wide open stance. Right.
• 2:22:23
  And he was trying to pull that outside pitch
• 2:22:26
  too much. He has closed it a little bit. He's
• 2:22:28
  still a little open. But he's able to go better
• 2:22:31
  to left field with the pitch. First ball hits
• 2:22:34
  the left field. Coming on Northrop and makes
• 2:22:38
  the catch in short left field. He almost got
• 2:22:40
  one in there. But the Yankees come up with two
• 2:22:43
  runs on three base hits. No Tiger errors. Two
• 2:22:47
  men left. And the score now at the end of eighth
• 2:22:50
  ball inning, the Yankees two and the Tigers one.
• 2:22:56
  On the go. Go with Atlantic Imperial Gasoline
• 2:22:59
  and drive the Imperial Road. car will perform
• 2:23:30
  along the way. Atlantic Imperial Gasoline helps
• 2:23:33
  take care of that, wherever you go on the Imperial
• 2:23:36
  Road. You're always on the Imperial Road with
• 2:23:49
  Atlantic Imperial Gasoline. Well, the big left
• 2:24:11
  -hander, Steve Hamilton, is coming on, and this
• 2:24:17
  is just as it should be, Dale Long. Bill Mumblecat,
• 2:24:20
  who pitched such a beautiful game, has been taken
• 2:24:22
  off the hook and could be the winning pitcher.
• 2:24:25
  He could not be the losing pitcher now, right?
• 2:24:29
  He has pitched some balls. You know, when you
• 2:24:31
  get a little older, it's a shame, but the older
• 2:24:33
  you get, the smarter you get. Pretty soon the
• 2:24:36
  body can't call on the, you know, you call on
• 2:24:38
  the body to do something, it won't do it. That's
• 2:24:40
  right, if you're too old. But Mambo, who when
• 2:24:43
  he first broke in, was just a thrower in my estimation.
• 2:24:46
  Boy, he has changed. He has made a science of
• 2:24:49
  pitching now. The kind of guy you'd probably
• 2:24:52
  like to catch. That's right. So Steve Hamilton
• 2:24:58
  will be trying to nail this one down for Bill
• 2:25:01
  Mambo Kett and the Yankees. He'll be facing...
• 2:25:05
  Norm Cash, Jim Northrup, and Don Wert. Two left
• 2:25:08
  -hand hitters, and then a right -hand batter.
• 2:25:11
  Cash is 0 for 3. All right, here's Hamilton's
• 2:25:15
  first pitch to Cash. A curve, low ball line.
• 2:25:30
  Hamilton ready again. Curve over this time. Strike
• 2:25:35
  one, one -on -one. Here's the guy that's rough
• 2:25:37
  on you left -hand batters, Dale. He sure is.
• 2:25:40
  He's 6 '7". He leans over like the lenient tower
• 2:25:43
  of pizza. You heard that pizza now. I heard it.
• 2:25:46
  I heard it. I'm going to have one between games.
• 2:25:49
  Here's the one -one delivery. Another curve in
• 2:25:51
  the air. One ball, two strikes. Hamilton is making
• 2:25:58
  his third appearance of the year. He's only pitched
• 2:26:00
  three innings. He has not allowed a bay check.
• 2:26:05
  Walk one man. The one -two delivery. Just missed
• 2:26:10
  the outside corner on a little low. Two and two.
• 2:26:13
  That's what they call a slider on a half shell.
• 2:26:18
  Slider on a half shell. Well, that's why he's
• 2:26:22
  rough. He can throw the curve with the same motion
• 2:26:24
  and then the slider, and one doesn't break as
• 2:26:26
  much as the other. Here's his two -two pitch.
• 2:26:30
  Fly ball is caught by Neal. White coming in and
• 2:26:35
  makes a catch. He hits that ball right at the
• 2:26:37
  end of the pass, didn't he? He's looking for
• 2:26:42
  the chalk right over his head. Yes, that's right.
• 2:26:45
  And that was the beauty of Hamilton's side -on
• 2:26:47
  curveball. About another inch inside, and that
• 2:26:51
  ball could have been in the seat. All right,
• 2:26:53
  here's Northrup. He bounced it first, single
• 2:26:55
  right, and hit back to the box. Another left
• 2:26:58
  -hand batter. Dave Hamilton looking at the ball,
• 2:27:03
  checks it, doesn't like the way it feels, and
• 2:27:05
  throws it out. How can those pitchers have such
• 2:27:07
  sensitive fingers, Dale? Huh? How about the four
• 2:27:10
  words they came from? But anyway, those pitchers
• 2:27:15
  know. The horse side, you mean? They must have
• 2:27:17
  had sensitive something to get that horse side
• 2:27:19
  off. But anyway, these pitchers know, I'll tell
• 2:27:21
  you. The curve is over. Strike one called. I
• 2:27:25
  never thought about the poor horse. I never heard
• 2:27:28
  from the ASPCA. I'm always saying the poor pitcher.
• 2:27:32
  These fellas know the height of the fiends and
• 2:27:34
  everything else just by the touch of it. The
• 2:27:37
  one strike pitch. Turf foul. Back and out of
• 2:27:40
  play. Strike two. I mentioned that pitchers can
• 2:27:46
  make pretty good safe brackets. Yeah, they touch
• 2:27:49
  it. A lot of times it's the weight. Some balls
• 2:27:52
  weigh more than the others. They get scuffed
• 2:27:54
  up or something. They just don't like what they
• 2:27:58
  like, and that's it. All right. Here's the two
• 2:28:01
  -strike pitch. Sidearm curve popped up to the
• 2:28:04
  right side. Mickey Mantle is there in foul territory.
• 2:28:07
  Under it. Makes the catch. Two -way. The Tigers
• 2:28:12
  down to their last out, and it's John Ward, who
• 2:28:15
  is one for three, single in the fourth inning.
• 2:28:18
  He had struck out the second and popped the second
• 2:28:20
  in the sixth. Gives out to the mob. Has to look
• 2:28:25
  way up in the air at Big Steve Hamilton. Two
• 2:28:29
  men out. Two out. Nobody on. Yankees leading
• 2:28:43
  2 -1. Hamilton turns around, looks at the defense.
• 2:28:49
  Word of right -hand batter. Whittaker and left
• 2:28:54
  Robinson instead of white and right here's the
• 2:28:58
  pitch to Orla rather to word is the strike on
• 2:29:00
  the inside corner and worth it like that ball
• 2:29:03
  hands on his hips shaking his head now he steps
• 2:29:08
  back into the batter's box the pitch is outside
• 2:29:17
  one -on -one Two out, nobody on, 2 -1 the Yankees
• 2:29:25
  lead, top of the ninth inning. Hamilton lines,
• 2:29:29
  this pitch, a bouncer in front of the plate,
• 2:29:31
  Hamilton up with it, throws to Mantle, the ball
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  game is over. And Steve Hamilton holds that chain,
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  the victory sign, as he sets the Tigers down
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  in order in the top of the ninth inning, and
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  the Yankees win it 2 -1. The totals in the ballgame
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  for the Yankees. Two runs, five hits, one error
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  for Detroit. One run, six hits, one error. Mambo
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  kept the winner. He's won three and lost one.
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  Swarm of a loser. He's won one and lost two.
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  Steve Hamilton gets his say. It all came down
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  to that eighth inning for the Yankees after they
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  were trailing one to nothing. The Tigers picked
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  up a run in the fourth. A single by Northrop,
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  a single by Word, and a sacrifice fly by Euler.
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  But the Yankees, who were hitless till the seventh,
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  came through in the eighth. Costco pinch -hitting
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  single. Clark sacrificed in the second. Gibbs
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  hit back to the box, but Mantle hit a tremendous
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  double to left field. One bounce into the bleachers,
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  driving in Costco to tie it up. And then Roy
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  White had a two -out line single to left. Mantle
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  slid in just ahead of the tag. The Yankees win
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  it 2 -1. Once again, the totals in the ballgame
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  for the Yankees. Two runs, five hits, one error.
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  For Detroit, one run, six hits, and one error.
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  Now stay with us for that second game coming
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  up shortly.