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Internal Revenue Commissioner Sheldon Cohen recently seemed downright sheepish when he publicly admitted that some of his Service's agents used wiretaps and even more sophisticated instruments of snoopery to get evidence against tax dodgers, both real and imagined. "Neither I nor my closest assistants knew until quite recently...
"I am resetting the club right now, with the idea that Sandy won't be with us." So spoke disconsolate Buzzie Bavasi, the general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, after doctors last April diagnosed the pain and swelling in Sandy Koufax' pitching elbow as a "traumatic arthritic...
And yet, as the season approaches midpoint, there are the Dodgers leading the league by 2½ games.
So what have the Dodgers got? For one thing they have, as New York Mets Pitcher Warren Spahn says, "the best pitching staff in baseball." Lefthander Sandy Koufax has painful arthritis in his throwing elbow, still leads the league with twelve wins (v. three losses) and 159 strikeouts. Righthander Drysdale...
There are other things, too, in the Dodgers' grand design-little things like a single, a stolen base, a sacrifice at just the right time. Shortstop Maury Wills at 32 is still the best base runner in the business: by last week, he had stolen 44 bases in 71...