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Whitey Ford (17-6) will pitch the first game for New York, with Ray Sadecki (20-11) starting for the Cardinals. Two regular Card infielders, Ken Boyer and Julian Javier, have leg injuries, but both are expected to start. Yankee shortstop Tony Kubek, however, will miss the series with a sprained wrist...
...runs. They have Pitcher Steve Barber, who can't lick anybody else but has won three apiece from the White Sox and Yankees. They have Rookie Outfielder Sam Bowens, who hits one home run for every four times he strikes out (19 HRs, 84 Ks), and Shortstop Luis Aparicio, who leads both leagues with 50 stolen bases, and Milt Pappas (né Miltiades Stergios Papastedgios), who might be the best pitcher around if he weren't bored by the ease...
...strength was the talk of the league: in a playful scuffle one day, he popped a friend on the chest-and sent him to the hospital with a broken rib. His base running was murderous: "When Hank came down that base path," shudders ex-Boston Shortstop Johnny Pesky, "the whole earth trembled." His will to win was awesome. "It's no fun playing if you don't make somebody else unhappy," he once said. "I do everything hard." Even Manager Casey Stengel tipped his cap: "That fella Bauer, he had qualities of which there were four...
...Whoever was right, Alvin Dark, 42, is neither stupid nor ready to quit baseball. He is a Southerner-Oklahoma-born, Louisiana-educated-and one of the most intensely competitive men anywhere. He was a triple-threat halfback at Louisiana State, a Marine officer in World War II, an outstanding shortstop for the Giants from 1950 to 1956. As Giants manager for the last three years, he has won the National League pennant once (in 1962), finished third twice...
...used as many as seven Negro and Latin American players in a single game's lineup. Negroes and Latin Americans have displaced several established players on the Giants-Negro Jim Ray Hart for Jim Davenport at third base, Puerto Rican Jose Pagán for Ed Bressoud at shortstop, Dominican Jesus Alou for Harvey Kuenn in rightfield...