In this last excerpt from October 1964, the World Series is back in St. Louis with the Cardinals leading 3 games to 2, and Yankee pitcher Jim Bouton is starting to wonder about his team:
Bouton was puzzled by the behavior of the Yankee ownership on the morning of the sixth game. The players had been told to pack their suitcases and check out of the St. Louis hotel before they left for the ball park. If they lost, they would leave for New York right after the game.; if they won, they would return to the hotel and check back in. Management clearly did not want to be charged for an extra day in St. Louis if they were going to lose the game and the Series. That stunned Bouton; in the past the Yankees had always been arrogant and parsimonious, but this was the first time he could ever remember their parsimoniousness outweighing their arrogance. It was, he thought, the work of people with a loser's mentality.
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