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Farmers in the Gashouse. When Rickey returned from the Army in 1919 to his job as president of the St. Louis Cardinals, the Cards were in sorry shape. The only really good ballplayer on the team was Second Baseman Rogers Hornsby. The club was $175,000 in debt; there was no money for a training trip that spring, not even enough for new uniforms-let alone for buying players on the open market. Rickey's answer was to invent the farm system, gaining control of minor-league clubs, using them as training schools for future stars. At first rival...
...only experience William Dole Eckert, 56, had with baseball was as a high school first baseman back in Madison, Ind. Last week the 20 owners of the major-league ballclubs elected Eckert to succeed Ford Frick for a seven-year term as baseball's $65,000-a-year commissioner...
Mele's only worry in the first game was that his players might get dizzy from all that running around. Don Drysdale, the Dodger starter, was out so fast that he could have watched himself on instant replay. Minnesota Second Baseman Frank Quilici opened the third inning with a double, then Drysdale fell down trying to field a bunt, and by the time the Twins got bored, eleven men had batted and six had scored-three of them on Zoilo Versalles' 400-ft. homer into the leftfield bleachers. "I had bad command," Drysdale said afterward...
...sixth inning, Dodger Third Baseman Jim Gilliam let a grounder by Zoilo Versalles run up his arm, over his shoulder, and halfway into leftfield for a two-base error. A sacrifice and two hits later, the Twins had a 2-0 lead. The Dodgers got back one in the seventh, and then, with the tying run on third, Manager Walt Alston made his move. He took Koufax out for a pinch hitter-Don Drysdale-who struck out on three pitches. After that the box score became a nightmare. The Twins won 5-1, with the aid of three Dodger errors...
...funny for a base ball team. But the Houston Astros learned to believe it. The Giants scored a run in the fourth inning, another in the fifth - and with the score tied 2-2 in the ninth, Willie Mays slashed a grounder straight between the legs of Houston First Baseman Walt Bond. Never slowing down, Mays rounded first, streaked for second, and slid in safely amid a cloud of dust. Moments later, Willie McCovey slapped a single to right, and Mays scampered home with the run that gave the Giants their 13th straight victory, boosted their National League lead...