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...this a big thrill," someone asked. "Terrific." muttered Stolle. "They named you MVP," Ron Bookman said to Newcombe. "Whoo-cece!," Newk said, unenthusiastically. Poor...
...Just like Wimbledon, Newk?", one volunteered. Newcombe had beaten Stolle there in four sets two weeks...
Cincinnati's fate lies with Don Newcombe who should have forgotten about the '56 world series by now. If Newk can come back and head an otherwise average pitching staff of Brooks Lawrence, Joe Nuxhall, Bob Purkey, and rookie Jim O'Toole, the Reds could be very hard to beat. Their infield of Frank Robinson on first (where his fielding is still a question), Johnny Temple (.306) at second, Roy McMillan at short, and the slugger Frank Thomas at third is almost equal to Pittsburgh's. GusBell, Jerry Lynch, and Vada Pinson (the best looking rookie in the league) rank...
...wound up the 1957 season with a dismal record of eleven victories and twelve defeats. He was almost ready to believe the unkind critics who maintained that he lost his stuff in the clutch. Then things got worse. The Dodgers moved to Los Angeles, and Big Newk (6 ft. 4 in.) began to worry himself witless over the prospect of being forced to fly from game to game...
...Newk found a practitioner in Manhattan-one Joseph Edelman of the Hypnotism Center, Inc. He spent four $25-a-half-hour sessions listening to a suave, persuasive voice tell him that he was not really afraid, that the plane would not really crash. Newk liked that kind of pitch; early last spring a chiropractor pal tried a little amateur hypnotism and temporarily relieved his arm. Perhaps, the pitcher decided, Edelman could trance him out of all the tensions that sweat up his palms and take the hop off his high hard one in the big innings of a big game...