A NEW LOOK FOR THE OLD BALL GAME

It's a goddam good game," says Yankee President Gabe Paul, "to survive what's been done to it."

What is being done to baseball and by whom is a matter of substantial contention, but the first half of Gabe Paul's statement has been resoundingly endorsed in the past few days.

> In New York, hallowed old Yankee Stadium, the house that Ruth built, reopened in plushly refurbished form, its dedication presided over by Mayor Abraham Beame. It was 53 years from Babe to Abe, but the difference in what a community will lavish on...

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