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...game. * But one night last week, in Baltimore's vast Memorial Stadium, Cleveland Outfielder Rocco Domenico Colavito stepped out of a batting slump and into the record books with four mighty swings of his 33-oz. bat. His fourth straight homer, a long blast into the left-field bleachers some 410 ft. away, came in the ninth inning off Baltimore Orioles Reliefer Ernie Johnson, who had not allowed a homer all season. What was more, Colavito brought off his feat in a park rated the toughest in the league for home-run hitters-no team has ever hit more...
...single, a sacrifice, and another Yale error made it 3-0 in the fourth, and an inning later came Balboni's home run. A hit batsman, a single, and an error preceeded his mighty swat down the left-field line...
With the teams deadlocked at 7-all, pinch-hitter George Harrington lined a double down the left-field line, advanced on a sacrifice, and raced home on a suicide squeeze play as Tom Bergantino obligingly tapped a bunt in front of the plate...
...trip back to what used to be Braves Field is a rather sad experience for anyone with a baseball memory of more than five years. The stands are now green and bare, there is a rusty wire fence where the left-field wall once stood, and the grass grows fitfully around the outfield...
...week's end, the Dodgers were far back in sixth place. But so many fans turned out to watch the homers soar over the left-field screen that when they beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 5-3, the Dodgers drew the largest crowd ever to watch a National League night game (60,635). With all those paying guests, the Dodgers could well afford the modest cost ($2 apiece) of all those lost balls...