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Once a promising Dodger farmhand, U.S.C. Alumnus Bill Sharman used to nurse fond dreams of big-league baseball. ("I'm the guy who was going to shove Snider out of center field," he remembers with a wry smile.) Now he knows that basketball is his game. He is so central to the Celtics' championship hopes that last week Coach Red Auerbach refused to tempt trouble by putting him back in uniform too soon for the four and five pounding miles of running required in a pro game. So Bill bided his time until the St. Louis Hawks invaded...
...Newcombe, hapless goat of the Dodger defeat in the World Series, won the first Cy Young Award as the best pitcher in baseball to go with his plaque as National League's Most Valuable Player...
...Stung by Japanese criticism of their playing ("We have nothing to learn from the Dodgers," said the manager of the Mainichi Orions), the Dodgers finally got themselves untracked, clobbered the Kanto All-Stars 8-0 and 12-1, brought their touring record to four wins, two losses and a draw. Japanese ballplayers, admitted Dodger Vice President Fresco Thompson, "are somewhere between the Texas League and the Southern Association, and that is quite complimentary...
Payoff in Home Runs. For the payoff game the Dodgers had no one left but Don Newcombe, who had started four World Series games, lasted through none. Tormented by the fate that dogged him in the big ones. Big Newk unwound with all he had. When he was on target, his fast ball hummed into life, but when he was wide of the strike zone, he was not wide enough. Even the pitches he wanted to waste hung close to the plate. Squat Yogi Berra, the best fastball hitter in the majors, whacked one of them for a homer...
...Arithmetic. The story of the series was the story of young Yankee pitchers and aging Dodger batters. For the first two games the Dodgers hit at a .313 clip. Then they collapsed. In the last five games Dodger hitters hit at an appalling .142 clip. They finished with a sad total of .195. No team had ever done worse in a seven-game series...