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...embarrassment of riches. Centerfielder Vada Pinson leads both leagues with 112 hits, sports a .323 average. Burly Rightfielder Frank Robinson, a .336 hitter with 25 home runs and 73 runs batted in, sparked the surge that put Cincinnati five games in front of Los Angeles just before the All-Star game...
...Ford hopes to overcome two bugbears. One is the elusive 20-game mark, which he missed by a hair in 1956. "Sure I'd like to win 20," says Ford, "if only to stop everybody from talking about it." He would also like to do well in an All-Star game. In five previous appearances, he staggered to an 0-2 record and a ghastly earned-run average of 10.00. This week, when National Leaguers face the '61 Ford in San Francisco for the first All-Star game, they will see the same broad-shouldered, chunky lines...
...coaches in the Greater Boston League yesterday announced the selection of Dick Shima and Tom Boone to the League's All-Star Team. Shima finished third in the GBL with a .393 batting average, and headed the League in triples with three. All of them were hit in last week's 26-2 win over Brandeis...
...March 25 Third Timex All-Star Circus (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Joe E. Brown acts as TV ringmaster for the Bertram Mills Circus of London...
When she was a Hollywood child in the 1940s, she seemed surrounded mostly by chauffeurs, governesses and magicians who performed at birthday parties. A list of her classmates at the Brentwood Town and Country School read like a second-generation all-star cast: Lady* Jayne Seymour (Henry) Fonda, Tarquin (Laurence) Olivier, Maria (Gary) Cooper, Jenny Ann (Ingrid Bergman) Lindstrom. Her own parents were Actress Margaret Sullavan and Producer Leland Hayward. Last week, with most of the class doing post-graduate work†,Brooke Hayward, 23, made her TV debut on the U.S. Steel Hour, walking prettily through a preposterous play...