Aug. 23, 1964 | Johnny Carson on “The Harmonica Incident”

Aug. 23, 1964 - Johnny Carson of the “Tonight Show” remarked on the “harmonica incident” tonight in his opening monologue.
The incident took place on a New York Yankees team bus three days ago, en route to O’Hare International Airport.
Infielder Phil Linz began playing a harmonica in the back of the bus. Manager Yogi Berra, feeling that Linz’s behavior was inappropriate given the team’s recent poor performance, angrily called on him to stop, whereupon Linz threw the harmonica and loudly complained about being singled out despite not having been at fault for the losses.
Journalists on the bus following the team reported the incident in the next day’s newspapers, and it became national news.

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