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Smokey Alston smiling? The Dodgers winning? It was only yesterday that the collapsible Dodgers blew a four-game lead in the final week and presented the 1962 National League pennant to the San Francisco Giants. And it seemed only the day before that Bobby Thomson of the Giants deposited a...
"Another Game." All was in readiness last week when the Bums rolled into St. Louis for a last three-game series with the onrushing Cardinals. Two weeks before, the Dodgers were coasting six games ahead of the pack. But then the Cards won 19 out of 20, and the Dodger...
Back in Los Angeles, Dodger fans sighed and waited for the worst. In nine years, Alston had delivered three pennants, two world championships, eight first-division finishes. But this was a time for heroics, and Alston hardly seemed the man to ignite any team. He was still the dour, noncommittal...
But for once every percentage play clicked, and every move was blinding genius. To pitch the first game, Alston called on Veteran Lefthander Johnny Podres, bad back, so-so record (13 victories, 10 losses) and all. The slugging Cards got only three hits (including a home run by Stan Musial...
When the Cards looked out to the mound next day, there stood Sandy Koufax, No. 1 in the National League in won-lost record (23-5), strikeouts (284) and practically everything else.* The Dodgers' regular rotation called for Koufax to work the last game, but that fell on Rosh...