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Two days after Labor Day, the World Champion New York Yankees led the Cleveland Indians by 3½ games; in the National League, the Brooklyn Dodgers led the New York Giants by a comfortable 8. At that stage, most Giant and Indian fans were ready to concede the pennants to...
Cleveland Manager Al Lopez had closed the gap to half a game at one point by the last-ditch expedient of regularly rotating his top three pitchers, Mike Garcia (20-9), Bob Lemon (19-10) and Early Wynn (21-12), giving them only two days' rest between starts. Giant...
A jostling horde of photographers fired flashlights at him and bawled, "Hey King -one more!" Ship news reporters asked him what he thought of teen-age dating (he said, in the immaculate public-school accent he had learned at Britain's Harrow, that he didn't know anything...
As befitted an admirer of the glorious Bums, he quickly made a pilgrimage to Ebbets Field. "Who are those persons over there?" he asked curiously, as the teams warmed up. "Those," said Dodgers' President Walter O'Malley heartily, "are the hated Giants." The King smiled. He was duly...
So many early-season games got rained out that doubleheaders-to make up for the washouts-are cramming the big-league schedules. In the National League, the Brooklyn Dodgers were sagging a trifle (to .664), but showed no signs of repeating their disastrous 1951 crackup. If Brooklyn keeps winning at...