"Fred Green nearly choked on his chaw when Mantle hit a line shot into the right field stands. Clem Labine, who told me while he was warming up that he had his good sinker, didn't have good control of his curve ball and served up a couple of fruitful line drives. The phone in the bullpen rang as desperately as if a bunch of people were reporting a fire. Three pale, young Pirate pitchers warmed up nervously. One was so nervous that he kept dropping the ball when the catcher threw it back. A laugher is not a pitcher's best introduction to a World Series, but eventually they all had to go face the hilarious Yankees. When the Yankee run total had passed 15, the phone stopped ringing. All that was left in the Pirate bullpen were two catchers, slumped over and too tired to talk."
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Jim Brosnan, in "The Agony of a 'Laugher'" by Brosnan, in Life (October 17, 1960), p. 98
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