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It was the last series the Milwaukee Braves would play in Brooklyn. Last year's pennant-winning Dodgers were lagging 6½ games behind, and the Braves were determined to plow them under. The plow was working. Big Henry Aaron, the Braves' heavy-wristed cleanup hitter, put the...
¶ Even after they lost First Baseman Joe Adcock with a broken leg and Outfielder Bill Bruton with an injured kneecap, the Milwaukee Braves kept right on running -hanging on among the leaders of the tightest National League pennant race in years. Then they made a routine trade and picked...
All season long, the mercurial league lead has gone to the team best able to patch up its fundamental flaws (the Phillies cannot hit; the Redlegs are weak in pitching; the Dodgers are getting old; the Braves are injury-prone). Back in St. Louis, fans are betting already that the...
Picked for Patsies. This week they are right in the middle of one of the fanciest midseason free-for-alls that the National League has ever known. The first division really consists of six teams, and there is not a soft touch even in the last two clubs (Chicago'...
The Redlegs spent two seasons learning to make the inches work for them, then last year inched their way to within two games of the pennant (and the Dodgers). Cincinnati fans recognized the new spirit early in the season, and it was catching. Operating with gay abandon, the fans stuffed...