"If I look older, it all began when I got Dick Stuart. Remember the play in the '60 World Series, when we had Mickey Mantle hung off first but he slid around? Somebody asked Stuart if he would have played it the way Nelson did, and Stu said he didn't think so, because he wouldn't have caught the ball to begin with."

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