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Left-hander Dave McNally (13-6) will be on the mound for the Baltimore Orioles when the World Series opens Wednesday in Los Angeles. The Dodgers will probably pitch Don Drysdale (13-16), resting ace Sandy Koufax's arm for Thursday's game...
...care for their sick mother. Russian Runners Tatiana Schelkanova and Maria Itkina were side lined with undisclosed injuries. Rumania's towering (6 ft. ½ in.) Iolanda Balas, the current world record holder in the ladies' high jump, went to Budapest-but only as a spectator, wearing an Ace bandage. She was, according to Rumanian track officials, suffering from a "calcified right tendon," and might never be able to compete again. Maria Vittoria Trio, a raven-haired Italian broad jumper, refused to submit to a physical on religious grounds. "I have been raised a Catholic," she said...
Sandy Koufax was trying to explain how it felt to lose a ball game. "Have you ever tripped and fallen at a party or spilled coffee on your lap?" asked the Los Angeles Dodgers' ace. "Isn't there something worse than the pain it self? Isn't it the embarrassment? Well, imagine being embarrassed in front of 50,000 people." Last week, Koufax lost - in front of 50,840 screaming fans...
When Greeley died in 1872, Whitelaw Reid, an ace Civil War reporter, took over as owner and editor of the Tribune. His son, Ogden, succeeded him in 1912, and twelve years later bought the Herald. Almost immediately, the new Herald Tribune glowed with a circulation that nearly surpassed the combined total of its two predecessors. Without stopping to start, the Trib had reached the top: a great paper serving a great city-and the world...
What Perry always had was sizzling speed, the kind that gave him five no-hitters as a high school ace back home in Williamston, N.C. In 1958, the Giants shelled out $60,000 just to get him on the roster, but for a while it seemed a forlorn investment. His fastball was wild, and when he tried to develop a slider (or fast curve) it was too slow. It took eight years and several elevator rides to the minors before Perry learned to improve his control, to keep the ball low and to give himself another effective pitch. This spring...