Baseball: Leo the Lamb

The manager of the Chicago Cubs is obviously an impostor. The 1967 season is already more than half over, and this fellow who says he is Leo ("The Lip") Durocher, 60, has not cursed a single sportswriter, or attacked a single fan, and has been thrown out of only two games all summer.

The Cubs look suspiciously like impostors, too. The real Chicago Cubs have spent the last 20 years languishing in the second division, and they wound up the 1966 season dead last—7½ games behind the New York Mets. This year's Cubs are acting like full-grown grizzlies. Four...

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