Walt Whitman Junior High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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THB NEW YORK METS The Mets, the new team in the National League, have set the stage for an exciting 1962 sea- son in professional baseball. Casey Stengel, the manager of New York's most recently formed baseball club,will aim high with first place in the league as his goal. A well-known big leaguer will be on hand at each key position to assure success for this highly tauted two and a half million dollar outfit. The infield presents Gil Hodgers and Bd Bouchee at first base, Charley Neal at second, with Elio Charcon also avail- able, and Felix Mantilla and Don Zimmer for the left side. The outfield first-stringers are Richie Ashburn, Gus Bell, and Thomas with B.G. Smith and Joe DeMerit in reserve. Hobie Landrith has been a first- string-catcher for the Giants, and he is counted on to present a strong front until Casey Stengel can appraise two young receivers. There also will be some good hitting in Thomas Ctwenty-seven in 19613 Bouchee, Hodgers, Neal, Bell, and Zimmer. At present, luck looms a large factor in the pitching BApSBpBALL'S HALL ,OF FAME This year two more Hgreatsn have been elected to the Base- ball Hall of Fame. They are Jackie Robinson and Bob Feller. The Hall of Fame was built in June 1939 in Cooperstown, New York. This building houses plaques and baseball apparatus commemorating the true immortals of baseball. Candidates are elected by two bodies. An eleven man com- mittee elects veterans who have been out of the game for at least twenty-five years including coaches and managers who have served for at least five years. Players, managers, coaches, and umpires who have been active for twenty-five years but out of the game for five years or more are elected by ten year members of the Baseball Writers Associa- tion. There are now eighty baseball players who have been elected to the hall of fame including Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Roger Hornsby, Carl Hubbell, Mel Ott, Jimmy Fox, Bill Dickey, Joe Dimaggio, Horace Wagner, and Christy Mathewson. section. The three chief con- , Stephen Platinsky tenders are Johnny Antonelli, ' . ijgf Billy Laes, and Roger Craig. I' , ,' ,llij .' 1 N', With the setup as it is, there 5 J , ' -f' will be more than a fighting rv .1 chance for this new team in the st' 'uQ Q.'T7?SN5fs5 gFf'g.lf rs National League Pennant race. --- . X X X N'3ks - ii CC -:LJ X fm X! Dy , xx Richard Goldman - X 'X ' I A . X B to 9 ,...-w--an-ds' N +A ' 'X - f of Z-' Q N, 1 x - X , ' fifvw t Q ' 1 X7 xx...,,..l -rf X XIBIJS N fi '-3' 5' f' 7 uh-' f- ,. N32-J 90

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MY FIRST AND LAST BASKETBALL ElMr ' Boy! was I humiliated! I was the only girl on the basketball team, and because of me the team lost. You see, I was good at most athletics, and since I was tall, I decided to join the team. The boys looked rather doubtful, but I promised them I would be a Ngreatn player. I was even taller than some of the boys! CI was 5' Qinj. They finally let me on their team Cthough some of the boys looked as though they were going to cryD. I practiced as hard as I could, but on Saturday, when we were against West High, I just knew something was going to go wrong. I had just gotten hold of the the the ball when something hit me in head. I knew it could not be ball because I was holding it. Or was I? I looked down and saw a bas- ketball, only it had the name Tommy on it It was a little kid's bas- . C ketball. Tommy later explained that he brought it because he was afraid we would lose oursib. I quickly turned around and saw our team was winning 6 to S. One more goof like that and we could lose. The ball came toward me again Cthis time it was the right onej but just then someone shouted my name. It was one of the boys from my school. He was laughing like a maniac because I was the only girl on the team. I started to stick my tongue out at him. My schoolmates groaned. My teammates almost tram- pled me. As I slowly got up and looked around, the score was 8 to 6. West High had won the game. No question! I had lost the game by my foolishness. It took awhile before the boys would ever talk to me again. But they said they would forgive me if I promised never to join the basketball team again. Roberta Duke MY FIRST FOOTBALL QAME I was the one who had to carry the ball through the line. Hike! The ball was handed off to me. I took a few steps, then boom! It hit me like lightning! I was smear- ed by three of their men. I did, however, make three yards. When we got back to the huddle, I asked what had happened to my blockers. They told me they went around the ends instead of up the middle. We then started a drive which wasn't stopped until their thirty yard line. The end of the first half came and the score was still nothing to nothing. The next quarter was as bad as the first. They were a tough team and lived up to their reputation as champs. Ten minutes were left in the last quarter. I knew something drastic had to be done. We were on our twen ty yard line and it was the last down. I signaled for a screen pass. This was a risky play. The quarter- back received the ball, the men rushed ing the quarterback and I went all the way for the touchdown. There was no scoring after that and we won six to nothing. We were now the new twelve year-old champs. Robert Brownstein 89

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