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...call on senior Dick Garibaldi (5-1 last year and 1-0 to date) to start in the team's seventh contest. Dick Diehl will be behind the plate, and Tom Stephenson will do the chores at first base. Rounding out the infield will be second-sacker Terry Bartolet, shortstop Tom Bilodeau, with Lee Sargeant in the hot corner...
...that time Del Rossi was the number two pitcher, throwing behind Vandy French, a 5-9 all-around athlete who now plays first base for the Jumbos. Another Tufts starter, shortstop Dale Grinnell, was also on that team...
...Nats scored their lone run in the fifth when Larry Osborne singled, moved to third on a double by catcher Don Leppert, and scored as Ed Brinkman was grounding out to shortstop...
...Bilodeau presently appears to have the task of succeeding Dave Morse at shortstop. (Morse, the team's captain last year, is now with Class A El Paso, a Giant farm club.) Bilodeau hit .390 for the freshman last season, kept in shape by lettering in football this Fall. He has the speed and fielding skills for the job, but may need some seasoning before double plays are a certainty...
...injuries to bat .321 and hit 30 homers, edged his teammate, Second Baseman Bobby Richardson. The M.V.P. award was Mantle's third; Roger Maris, who won it in 1960 and 1961, did not get a single vote this year. The National League's most valuable: Dodger Shortstop Maury Wills, who set a major-league record by stealing 106 bases-and won by a scant seven votes over Giant Centerfielder Willie Mays...