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...Last week the Angels were in fifth place, only six games behind the Chicago White Sox, and Manager Bill Rigney was hollering at his players in the locker room: "Let's win the pennant." Jim McGlothlin was packing his glove and spikes. He had to pitch in the All-Star game...
Under those circumstances, it hardly seems smart to make predictions. But that is exactly what everybody seems to be doing. "If we can stay within one or two games of the top until the All-Star game, we'll win," says Chicago Manager Eddie Stanky, whose White Sox trail the first-place Detroit Tigers by only 1½ games. "If we stay healthy, we've got a good chance," says Manager Hank Bauer of the defending champion Baltimore Orioles. And Boston Red Sox Manager Dick Williams insists: "We have the talent. There's no telling what will...
...Brecht and Shaw are performed as Good Liberals with whom a right-minded audience can curl up and agree. This season Galileo was presented at Lincoln Center by a company which seriously confused it with A Man For All Seasons, and a few years ago Heartbreak House received an all-star Broadway revival, which reduced it to a "high comedy" version of You Can't Take It With...
26TH ANNUAL B.P.A.A. ALL-STAR TOURNAMENT (CBS, 1:30-2:30 p.m.). The World Series of bowling, with the two best men and two best women competing for the Bowling Proprietors' Association of America championship title in their respective divisions and a total of $20,000 in prize money...
Such disappointments are common in the life of Roberto Clemente, 32. In 1965 he won the National League batting championship with a .329 average, but he was not even elected to the league's All-Star team. In 1966 he hit -.317, clouted 29 homers, drove in 119 runs, and beat out Los Angeles Dodgers' Pitcher Sandy Koufax for the Most Valuable Player award - but his team blew the pennant to the Dodgers in the last week of the season. All told, Clemente has three batting titles to his credit-but nobody has ever asked...