Baseball: Yogi, the Commissar

He looked almost like a manager. He acted almost like a manager, though he still grimaced greenly when he puffed his executive stogie. He even talked al most like a manager. "I'm doing plenty of looking," he said sagely, "and that's why I'm watching so much."

If it was publicity that the New York Yankees were looking for when they named Lawrence Peter Berra, 38, as their manager last October, they were certainly getting it. In fact, if Yogi gets much more publicity, worried one Yankee official in Florida last week, "he might become more of a personality than a...

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