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...mark. The young father of eight led both leagues in hits and was a big reason for his team's surge into a three-way American League battle for first place. For a superb fielder who was always kidded as a patsy at the plate (New York Yankee Slugger Mickey Mantle used to taunt him, "Don't forget your glove"), it was quite a performance...
...Playing regularly for the first time this year, Cash is batting .333, has five home runs and 29 RBIs. Temperamental, Bronx-born Rocky Colavito, who was appalled at being traded and suffered through a miserable 1960 season, is now happy with Detroit ("I like the town, and then some"). Slugger Colavito, starting fast, already has nine home runs, 27 RBIs, and his own fan club of teen-age-girl bleacherites, who wear sweaters emblazoned ROCKY. With Colavito in left, Bruton in center and Veteran Al Kaline in right, the Detroit outfield is probably the finest in the league. Catcher Brown...
...seasons in the bushes, Leftfielder Yastrzemski (pronounced Yah-strem-skee) is the finest outfield prospect in the American League. Boston sportswriters already are comparing him to Ted Williams, and the authoritative Sporting News has all but conceded him its Rookie of the Year award. In spring training, ex-Slugger Williams watched Yastrzemski take batting practice, exulted: "The boy has everything-poise a good eye, smoothness. He'll hit .320 in his first year." The prediction seems reasonable. At Raleigh, in the Class B Carolina League. Yastrzemski hit .377, won the batting championship by 66 points...
...reputation as "that fat character with guts," Ricketts began his daily column, did so well that the paper offered him a steady job after his Army discharge. Today the Pacific Stars and Stripes is inclined to view its civilian entertainment editor much as the New York Yankees view Slugger Mickey Mantle-although the paper pays him only $7,600 a year plus a cost-of-living allowance...
...third game brought the teams to New York, where Yankee fans calmly accepted the Series as an annual rite of autumn, as expectable as Thanksgiving. Beginning where they had left off, the Yankees in the first inning had already scored two runs and loaded the bases when the unlikeliest slugger of them all stepped into the box, looking fully as dangerous as any promising Little Leaguer. Second Baseman Bobby Richardson got every bit of his 5-ft. 9-in., 166-lb. frame behind his swing and hit a grand-slam home run into the leftfield seats. For Richardson, the home...