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...ball game was in the 13th inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers were still locked tight in a 3-3 tie with the Houston Colts. In the Dodger dugout. Manager Walt Alston issued crisp orders to his lead-off batter, Shortstop Maurice Morning Wills...
...Mets were easy to love. Their names stirred fond memories-Manager Casey Stengel, for twelve years the double-talking grand panjandrum of the Yankees, ex-Dodger Gil Hodges, still a hero in Flatbush, Pitcher Roger Craig, another well-remembered ex-resident of Ebbets Field. And they sure did try: in six of their 14 lonely victories, they came from behind to win; in 21 of their 37 defeats, they managed to get the tying run to bat in the last inning. Even in defeat, they had humor. "That feller can hit it to the centerfield wall," said Casey...
...aging muscles still limber, keeps right on playing leftfield for the Cards with a young man's speed. And each time he uncoils from his familiar, knock-kneed batting crouch to hammer a single over second, he rewrites baseball's record book. Even today, says Los Angeles Dodger Coach Leo Durocher, "there is only one way to pitch to Musial - under the plate." Most of Everything. Seven times National League batting champion (lifetime average: .333), Musial already holds 40 league records, for everything from most games played (2,795) to most years leading all outfielders in fielding (three...
...glad to hear that the elevators at the new Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles will "whisk" fans to their seats at the rate of "200 ft. per second" [March 30]. A quick calculation indicates that at 136 m.p.h., passengers will be plastered all over the floor for half the trip, and all over the ceiling for the other half...
Stadium is a monument to optimism (its seating capacity is unlikely to be taxed), Los Angeles' $18 million Dodger Stadium is a shrine of success: since they moved to Los Angeles and its 95,000-seat Coliseum in 1958, the onetime Brooklyn Bums have smashed every attendance record in the National League. A seven-level pleasure dome of concrete, steel, aluminum, glass, plastic and brick, their new stadium is situated in Chavez Ravine, just five minutes from downtown Los Angeles, holds only 56,000 fans. But canny Dodger President Walter O'Malley expects no decline in revenues. Ticket...