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More than usual, the Series revolved around the achievement of one man. While the Yanks poked at his low, sharp-breaking pitches like tired biddies beating carpets, Burdette licked the Yanks three times, to become the first pitcher to start and win three games in a single Series since the...
Wilson's freewheeling comments brought him plenty of drubbings from Congress and the press, but through the bitter days he kept his own sense of humor intact. "The price of progress is trouble," he once remarked, "-and I must be making lots of progress." The turning point probably came...
Elsewhere the world of sport was worried by such momentous questions as "How can an ordinary citizen corner a couple of tickets to the World Series?" and "When are the Brooklyn Dodgers going to move?" But in Clearwater, Fla. (pop. 25,500) last week, 25,000 fans had something much...
Professional Yankee haters had been singing a familiar lament: "The Yanks are trying to buy another pennant." There were rumors that the pitching-poor New Yorkers were trying to buy Sal ("The Barber") Maglie from the outpaced Dodgers. This week the rumors became fact. In New York, at least, even...
Veteran Braves like Hank Aaron (now leading the league with 37 home runs and 102 runs batted in) and Pitcher Warren Spahn have found their old winning form. And Manager Haney has found himself in possession of the one essential ingredient of managerial genius: a pennant-winning club. At week...