Seller has a Phil Linz bat on ebay now. One of the most funniest baseball stories I ever heard was the harmonica incident:
"The Orioles regained first with a win on August 3, then the Yankees returned the favor on August 6. Another Orioles-Yankees series began the next day, with the Orioles taking three of four to send the Yankees spinning into third place. The White Sox came into Yankee Stadium August 11, and swept a doubleheader that day. With the Yankees down to 3.5 back and reeling, tensions boiled over. On the Yankee team bus, infielder Phil Linz sat in the back playing a harmonica. Incensed with an attitude he interpreted as taking defeat lightly, manager Yogi Berra told Linz to cut it out. Linz asked Mickey Mantle, sitting nearby, what Berra had said. Mantle replied, “He said ‘louder.’” Linz persisted, Berra confronted him, and Linz flipped the harmonica at Berra, who swatted it away, cutting another team member. This incident is often credited with bringing the Yankees together as a team, but a more important factor was probably the callup of Mel Stottlemyre, who began a terrific pitching run down the stretch and solidified the rotation, as well as a hitting tear by Mantle. The Yankees won the next two from Chicago, and the news broke that team owners Dan Topping and Del Webb had sold 80% interest in the team to the CBS television network, amid allegations that the corporate influence would ruin the game and guarantee the Yankee dynasty in perpetuity. The Yankees then traveled to Baltimore for a series with the Orioles. New York won two of three, and then went to Chicago."
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