The big news here at the ballpark, of course, the game itself, but Whitey Ford. Ford had a little bit of a press conference, so to speak. They finally announced that Whitey Ford has a sore arm. I talked to Dr. Gainer, who is a team physician for the New York Yankees, and Dr. Gainer did not seem alarmed. He said it's a condition he's had for four or five years.

It's a circulatory problem.

And when the series is all over, we'll sit down, go over thoroughly, and then make a decision.

So it hasn't been a heel.

It hasn't been a strawberry.

It's been a sore arm that's kept witty for it out of the World Series as regular as we are used to seeing him. Whitey had quite a line in the clubhouse after the game. Of course, the Yankees is very happy to tie it up going to the seventh game. Whitey Ford was shaving. He looked over at Coach Jim Gleason. And he said, Jim, here it is. The final game coming up. He said, did you think it would be like this when we went to spring training down in Hollywood, Florida, about six years ago? Just about how long it seems the way they've been battling both these ball clubs. The clothes are very loose during batting practice. You didn't really feel a whole lot of tension.

If there is any tension, they hit it pretty well.

Johnny Keene of the St. Louis Cardinals, the manager, he puts it very simply.

He says, we're ready, we're happy to be here.

Yogi, as only yogi can say it, he says, we're ready, we're real happy to be here. And at least we all know that we're going to go home after the game today. So that's how excited Yogi was about it. Gibson, the pitcher for the Cardinals, warming up right now, is sore all over. He's about the best way he explains it. He was hit with a line drive in the last game

he pitched, and of course he's one of those guys who puts a lot of effort into his delivery.

If you remember in the first game that he pitched here in St. Louis, he relied heavily on a fastball,

worked very quickly. In the second game at Yankee Stadium, he started off with the curveball

and then went to a fastball and racked up a lot of strikeouts.

He certainly is within range and probably will break Sandy Kofax's total strikeout wrecking

World Series. Gibson has 23.

22, Kofx has 23. And if Gibson is any kind of stuff at all, you're certainly expecting to strike out more than two or three.

Staddlemyer, a youngster with a good sinker ball, and Yogi, he is a boy that Yogi wanted to pitch all along here at Bush Stadium.

The right field file line is 310 feet.

The slot is 354 in right center,

dead center field 425,

left center at 3.79,

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