Sport: Attaboy, Andy Baby

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On and off the ice, Andy Bathgate seems almost too good to be true. He neither smokes nor drinks; he is scrupulously polite to fans and sportswriters, banks much of his $20,000 salary, drove the same car for nine years before he finally traded it in on a new model (a 1962 Pontiac). "Andy is simply never moody," says his pretty wife Merle, "even after the team loses. Sometimes I'll criticize him for not having back-checked or not having made the right sort of pass." Adds the fortunate Mrs. Bathgate: "He'll listen."