Now for the erosion of the duck out, then the lead off man, and then today's opening game from

Ridley Field, the cops, and the Philadelphia today.

It's the rosia in the dugout brought to you by the Vienna sausage manufacturing company.

And once again, opening of the 1969 baseball season

and all of the folks at Vienna, as well as Mr. Boudreau

and all of us at WGN, want to wish Mr. Drosher the best of luck in 1969 and also of course the best of health.

Leo, isn't the best first line ball club that you have fielded for an opening day as a cup manager.

Well it is, Lou, and we come up here in out from spring training, I think, in the best physical condition

since I've been with the cups.

I mean, the overall, outside cups. I mean the overall outside of

Don Phillips. The overall physical condition of the ball players

himself personally are an A1 health and if they're not ready to go now they

never will be. Do you think you have enough to take over the Cardinals who are picked by all the experts to win our division?

Well, I don't know, Lou, I'm not going to predict, but I know one thing we got a good ball club and I'd like to be a little stronger naturally as a lot of clubs would be possibly in the fishing department or in right field but I think that we've got a good solid ball club I know my our front line is real good. So it's just a question

now of everybody putting it together, everybody's staying healthy, and having the one thing

in mind, desire, determination, the will to win the ball game and

that they can go out there and beat the other club that's the most important day

we have a tough break as you mentioned in a dawful

uh... phillips is injury and yet it's giving you an opportunity to look at a youngster who has the ability

of playing Major League Baseball talking about Don Young.

Well of course, Don Young can do everything in the outfield.

Defensively, he's as good as anybody.

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