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...Mickey Mantle 53)Dick Sisler 54)Moe Drabowsky 55)Frank Duffy and Vern Geishert 56)Roger Nelson and Richie Scheinblum 57)Tommy Hutton 58)Charlie Williams 59)Matty Alou and George Brunet 60)Darold Knowles 61)Willie Horton 62)The Los Angeles Dodgers 63)The New York Mets 64)The Pittsburgh Pirates...
...stink" 93)BroccaBella 94)Willie Horton 95)Lindy and Von McDaniel 96)Lloyd and Paul Waner 97)harry and Stan Coveleski 98)Matty and Felipe Alou 99)Rick and Paul Reuschel 100)Mort and Walker Cooper 101)Lou Boudreau, Mary Marion and Don Kessinger 102)George and Dick Sisler 103)Ralph Houk...
...headlong into the record books, taking with him a new mark for consecutive-game hitting streaks by modern-era National Leaguers. Last week Rose surpassed Tommy Holmes' 37-game record, set in 1945. Then, tackling the American League, he moved past Ty Cobb (40 in 1911) and tied George Sisler (41 in 1922) in pursuit of Joe DiMaggio's 56-game major league record...
...best damn hitter in baseball. He is the only man of his generation with the gifts-and the hard-won mastery of the art of hitting-to have a shot at joining the select club of the .400 hitters, which includes Ty Cobb, Joe Jackson, Nap Lajoie, George Sisler, Rogers Hornsby, Harry Heilmann and Bill Terry. In an era when batters must contend with night games and coast-to-coast jet lag -handicaps that the oldtimers never faced-the intense first baseman of the Minnesota Twins was hitting .402 last week and had been up to .411 when the season...
...American League pennant with a team total of 13 home runs, he smashed the single-season homer record with the then astronomical figure of 29. That was only the beginning. The following season, his first as a Yankee, he clouted 54. The runnerup, George Sisler, had 19. In fact, Ruth's home-run record that year was greater than the team total of 14 of the 15 other major-league clubs. Yankee attendance ballooned to nearly 1.3 million, from 619,000 the previous year. The crowds came to watch the power and grace of the Babe at bat; they...