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THE SPANISH PRESS, 1470-1966 ——— ne eh po POWER, AND POLITICS The Spanish Press Henry F. Schulte * The fall story of the Spanish periodical press ¥ —from its beginnings in 1470 to the “me- } ment of truth” reached under Franco’s con- WH troversial Press and Print Law of 1966 — told by a former UPI news bureau chief in Ma- MG dnd. “For those concerned to know how a wey ‘free’ press can exist in a nation alternately torn for the past four centuries between impas- sioned license and dour repression,” — Benja- min Welles, The New York Times Washington Bureau. 280 pages. $6.95. COMMUNITY COLLEGES a Et amr Bs hee) wait "3 A PRESIDENT'’S VIEW s Thomas E. O'Connell 4 In this candid, hardbitting, and often irrever- Sige ent book, the president of Massachusetts’ 4 Berkshire Community College takes a search- i img look at the rapid growth, present state, and pos future role of the “new” community college “4 vis-a-vis what Walter Lippmann has called : “the gigantic wark of adjusting our way of life 23 to the scientific revolution of this age and to the stupendous growth of the population.” 172 meen pages. $5.50, JAMES TRUSLOW ADAMS HISTORIAN OF THE AMERICAN DREAM Allan Nevins ita A highly personalized biography of Nevins’ i WMiedes longtime friend and colleague, Pulitzer Prize “eH ow . winning historian James Truslow Adams {1878-1949}. Nevins enhances his memoir with a selection from Adams’ wast correspon- ~ .” dence, revealing the many facets of an influen- » tial scholar and an enduring friend. 300 pages. $6.95. THE ART OF WILLIAM CARLOS YALLIAMS | | Three men in the catbird seat YAZ, By Carl Yasirzemski with Al Hirshberg. Wlustrated. Viking. 183 pp. 4.95. MY UPS AND DOWNS IN BASE- BALL, By Orlando Cepeda with Charles Einstein. Putnam. 192 py. $3.95. MY LIFE 18 BASEBALL, By Frank Robinson with Al Silver- seep, Minebletdes 995 2 at ot ADEM. LFUMICUAy. 229 PP. Fo. 4. By Ray Rebinson A few years ago a friend of mine, who has provided ghost- writing help to several outstand- ing athletes on their autobiog- raphies, agreed to do a book with a former baseball star, The two men met, ste, talked and dences. Several months after the book was finished, the ballplayer, asked about his ghost-writer, re- plied, “Who's he?” The three prominent baseball players featured in these books — Carl Yastrzemski, hero of the underdog Boston Red Sox Amer- ican League champions of 1967; Orlando Cepeda, Most Valuable Player of the runaway National League champs, the St, Louis Cards, in 1967; and Frank Rob- inson, Baltimore's triple-crown winner in 1966—shouldn't have such difficulties in remembering their respective collaborators. If most players of yesteryear seemed to hail from the swelter- ing swamps, farms and gas sta- fone af the Deen South, while Ve Lee SPY AM, Peas now a majority appear to be descended from sun-baked Cali- fornians, the game today truly - one of baseball’s legitimate slug- ‘limping around unnecessarily. was born in Puerto Rico. His ographies. The most me father, Perucho, once was ree:~*pémhaps ia, recorded b ognized as the greatest baseball trzemski, who underwe player in Puerto Rican history. happy experience of see Though Perucho once played boyhood idol, Ted Wu for $3.50 a week, plus board, in baseball’s last .400 hitter Puerto Rico, he adamantly re- into bis chief batting fused to come to the United when he came to the Red | States to play. A proud and stub- 1961. born man, he was furious that “You have to remember discrimination was practiced things,” Williams bar*™\1 against Puerto Rican players in protegé and succes: - the United States. way Park’s left field. “une, : Born with a right leg that was your stance and back a malformed, Cepeda inherited the Two, watch the ball. Three name of “paralitico"—the crip- the ball through the mid: ple, On Cepeda’s fifteenth birth. Four, be quick.” day, a doctor broke the bone in his leg and set the foot so it would point correctly. The leg looked normal — but Orlando wound up with an “acquired gait” and a totally spurious rep- utation for “not going all out.” Last year, right through World Series, Yaz followed \ liams’ counsel to perfection. ( riddled the Minnesota Twi with four hits to win the pennas for Boston’s 100-1 shots—eve though, as be confesses to M Hirshberg, he couldn’t slee wink the night before. < cisco Giants, where he became gers, he never convinced even his teammates that he wasn’t Cd Bead genuinely; ‘deliciously Southern ‘than ever MARION BROWN’S SOUTHERN COOK ROANY Traded to the Cards in 1966, he literally began life all over apain. It would be hard to find three more diverse backgrounds and environments, yet all three men ee a fon a are today ee | fuil-edged American sports icons. True, Yaz, being white, probably was able to | reap greater commercial divi- | dends out of his American League Triple Crown than Frank Robinson, a Negro. As Robin. son somewhat bitterly points out: “Being a Negro Triple Crown winner was, I knew, not going to make me rich.” (He