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...Thousands more would have come if police had not blocked off access roads, which had become ribbonlike parking lots choked with stalled cars. Had the festival lasted much longer, as many as one million youths might have made the pilgrimage to Bethel. The lure of the festival was an all-star cast of top rock artists, including Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and the Jefferson Airplane. But the good vibrations of good groups turned out to be the least of it. What the youth of America?and their observing elders?saw at Bethel was the potential power of a generation that...
...shares with Koufax and St. Louis Cardinal Bob Gibson a league record for registering 200 or more strikeouts during each of six seasons. He won the Cy Young Award as the outstanding pitcher in the majors in 1962, when he posted a 25-9 record. Drysdale appeared in eight All-Star games and was the winning pitcher in 1967 and 1968. Last season he broke Walter Johnson's 55-year-old record by pitching 58 scoreless innings, a string that included six shutouts...
...doubles and a grand-slam homer. He soon had a Twins contract in his pocket, was called up to the parent club in 1967 after only three years of minor-league ball. Hitting over .300 by midseason, he was the only rookie picked to start on the American League All-Star team. He wound up the season with a solid .292 average and was a clearcut choice for Rookie-of-the-Year honors...
WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Japanese All-Star Baseball Game from Tokyo...
...bored by last week's All-Star game. Held in Washington's new Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, the contest clearly reflected the re-emergence of the crowd-pleasing "long ball." In the second inning, Cincinnati's Johnny Bench blasted a two-run homer off the New York Yankees' Mel Stottlemyre, who was ultimately tagged with the loss. Washington's Frank Howard sent a towering drive over the centerfield fence in the American League's half of the inning. Then the Nationals sent nine men to the plate and scored five runs as San Francisco...