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While the National League leaders wore each other out, the high-riding Yankees began their last Western trip of the year as if it were a vacation. Mickey Mantle's chance of hitting 60 home runs had died in a late-summer slump; Yogi Berra had already hit the 237th homer of his career and broken Gabby Hartnett's record for major-league catchers. There was nothing left to worry about but playing baseball. The Yanks played like champs...
...opposition had to pitch to him. Gehrig was always on deck." The long-memoried fellow alongside demurs: "Look at the record. They walked the Babe 138 times in '27. He had only 540 at bats. Mantle has 413 with a fourth of the season left. And what about Berra? Do pitchers pass the Mick...
Mitch Miller Show (Sun. 9:05 p.m., CBS). With Yogi Berra, Sammy Davis Jr., Sylvia Sims...
...Berra Ballet. The arrival of the baseball season was heralded with another brace of biographies. ABC's Cavalcade Theater offered the life story of Jackie Jensen, an outfielder for the Boston Red Sox, but its only dramatic high point seemed to be that, except for baseball, Jackie might have been expelled from junior high school. On Climax!, The Lou Gehrig Story possessed more inherent drama as paralysis ended both the career and life of the great Yankee first baseman, but unfortunately, the TV treatment was strictly soap opera. NBC got in another plug for the national pastime with Salute...
...only games played, the Yankees continued their winning ways by defeating Washington, 4 to 1, as Hank Bauer and Yogi Berra homered, and Detroit topped Kansas City...