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LOST THIRD BASEMAN...
...Reds' three starters, Jim O'Toole, Joey Jay, and Bob Purkey are all having fine years, although O'Toole's 12-12 won-lost record might not indicate as much. Short-stop Leo Gardenas and second-baseman Don Blasingame are holding up well, and at first base, cast-off Marty Keough has done some timely power hitting...
...students, 19-year-old Elaine Stevens, works 20 hours a week as a summer research assistant in psychology at Northwestern, also coaches a Lawndale teen-age girls' softball team called the Lady Racketeers. Along with batting practice, Elaine teaches baby care−her13-year-old third baseman is five months pregnant, and children of other teen-age players on the team form the rooting section. Pre-Med Student Gordon A. Fuqua, 21, umpires softball games between the Vice Lords and the Egyptian Cobras, who might otherwise be rumbling in a Lawndale alley. Says Gordon: "What I'm doing...
...division, and when they do, owner Cal Griffith will get the honors. It was Griffith who made the Twins infield, recommending that All-Star Richie Rollins and rookie Bernie Allen get the third and second base spots and trading for Vice Power, the league's fine stall-round first baseman. If Griffith seems to have slipped in trading Don Lee to Los Angeles for Jim Donahue (now in the minor leagues) well, the younger Donahue may still make it bigger than Lee in the future...
...game could be pardoned for wondering who was on third; the Minnesota Twins' Rich Rollins was not even a big-league regular this time last year. But when American League players, managers and coaches cast their All-Star ballots for the 1962 games, they not only elected Third Baseman Rollins to the team, but they also gave the 24-year-old third baseman more votes (184 out of a possible 280) than any other player in the league, including Mantle and Maris...