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As a player, Branch Rickey's contribution to baseball is best forgotten. A no-hit, no-field catcher, he bounced briefly around the majors reaching a sort of apex with the New York Highlanders in 1907, when he batted .182 and permitted the Washington Senators to steal 13 bases...
> Willie Mays, 34: the National League's Most Valuable Player award, for the second time (the first was in 1954), outpolling Los Angeles Pitcher Sandy Koufax by 47 points in the balloting among baseball writers; at Boston. Mays batted .317, hit 52 homers and drove in 112 runs for...
Things improved a little after the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles: Sandy won eleven games in 1958, and in 1959 he struck out 18 batters in one game to tie a record. But in 1960 Koufax took stock of himself and did not like what he saw. "Suddenly I looked...
Koufax struck out Earl Battey to end the threat-and that was as close as the Minnesota Twins got to scoring a run. The Dodgers picked up two runs in the fourth on Lou Johnson's homer, a double by Ron Fairly and a single by Wes Parker. Koufax...
Cutting the Corners. Finally, it was the last of the ninth. With one out, Killebrew slapped a single to left. It was the third hit off Sandy all day and the last. Earl Battey looked at a called third strike, and up came Bob Allison, a dangerous hitter. "He was...