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Hit No. 1 came his first time at bat for the Pirates in 1955. It should have come a season earlier, but Clemente was the unwitting victim of a hide-and-seek game played by the old Brooklyn Dodgers. Son of a sugar-plantation foreman in Carolina, a suburb of...
JUST after the 11 p.m. curfew, a convoy of green and white police vans slid into a small alley off Phat Diem Street in Saigon's Second District. Policemen toting M-16 rifles and wooden clubs jumped out and sealed off the alley at either end. Pushing brusquely into...
Died. Wendell Smith, 58, sportswriter and broadcaster who helped promote baseball's racial integration; of cancer; in Chicago. Early in 1945, Smith took Jackie Robinson and two other black players to open tryouts with the Boston Red Sox. When the Red Sox demurred, Smith stopped off in Brooklyn to...
Frank Robinson is going back to the American League, thanks to a seven-player trade yesterday between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the California Angels.
In the transaction, the Dodgers shipped Robinson, pitchers Bill Singer and Mike Strahler, and infielders Bobby Valentine and Bill Grabarkewitz to the Angels for pitcher Andy Messersmith and third baseman Ken McMullen.