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Riding on Willie's power, the Giants romped to a big lead over the second-place Dodgers. Then Willie stopped swinging for the long ball ("I strike out too much when I swing hard"), settled instead for singles and doubles. Still, the Giants stayed in first place.
This week Willie and the Giants looked over their shoulder and saw a stranger scrambling for second place: the Milwaukee Braves. Two months ago the Braves had been out of sight, 15 games back. Then, winning three out of every four games, they leapfrogged over the aging Dodgers and drew...
True ball fans are mathematicians. They worship averages. A player's performance at the plate, a team's actions on the field, are all judged by intricate accounting. But when it comes to judging pennant races, the fans themselves are the most important statistic. Last week, as the...
But the Giants had to play through without Willie; his draft number came up. Mays applied for a deferment on the ground that he was the principal support of his mother and a passel of nine half-brothers and sisters back in Alabama; it was not granted. He flunked his...
Ground Broken. Young, impressionable, little-tutored in the ways of the world, Willie Mays might not have been a wise gamble had he come along a few years before. But by the time the Giants signed him, the ground was well broken for Negroes in the majors. The Brooklyn Dodgers...