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...Looking back over the big-league baseball season, sportswriters decided that the 27 victories with which Pitcher Don Newcombe won the Dodgers the pennant far outweighed his dismal failure in the World Series. By a margin of 40 points over his aging teammate, Pitcher Sal Maglie, Big Newk was named the National League's Most Valuable Player...
Payoff in Home Runs. For the payoff game the Dodgers had no one left but Don Newcombe, who had started four World Series games, lasted through none. Tormented by the fate that dogged him in the big ones. Big Newk unwound with all he had. When he was on target, his fast ball hummed into life, but when he was wide of the strike zone, he was not wide enough. Even the pitches he wanted to waste hung close to the plate. Squat Yogi Berra, the best fastball hitter in the majors, whacked one of them for a homer...
...Hush, li'l baby, don' say a word, mamma's gonna buy you a mockin'-bird ..." A piece from Piece: Take off the goat-horns, Dodgers, that egret/which two very fine base-stealers can offset./ You've got plenty: Jackie Robinson/and Campy and big Newk, and Dodgerdom again/watching everything you do. You won last year. Come...
...Dodgers made no more major mistakes. In a doubleheader with the Pirates, Maglie won the first game 6-2. The Dodgers won the second 3-1, then tucked away the pennant by beating the Pirates next day, "86, behind Big Newk. They did it with authority. Snider and Amoros homered twice, Robinson once. After that, it scarcely mattered that the forlorn Braves took their last game from St. Louis...
...another set of numbers in the record book, the Dodgers will have time to muse on their unlovely, late-season staggers. But long after they have forgotten the men left on base, the muffed bunts, all the flubbed chances to put a close game on ice, they will remember Newk on the 19th. This was the kind of performance that makes legend-the legend of one man seemingly determined to do it all by himself...