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...Proving that baseball is not played by the book, Manager Casey Stengel called on Oriole Hurler Billy O'Dell to save the American League's 4-3 lead in the All-Star game. O'Dell, who has an 8-9 record and has never had a winning season since coming to the majors in 1954, got rid of nine men on 27 throws. Bubbled Casey: "He had a fast ball, a slider and a mysterious pitch up from Mexico...
This year there was no stuffing of the ballot boxes. The fans who made a farce of last year's All-Star baseball game by swamping the National League squad with Cincinnati Redlegs, never got into the act. The teams for the 25th annual mid-season show were chosen by votes of players, managers and coaches...
...scores of all World Series and All-Star baseball games will be announced at the end of each inning over the public-address system...
...pair of culprits. Coach Janos Szabo was slapped with a lifetime expulsion from coaching and a one-year suspended jail sentence for smuggling 13 watches from Rio de Janeiro. Player Agnes Szabo was bounced from the team for life for smuggling 150 pairs of nylons. ¶Poland's all-star soccer forward, Kazimierz Trampisz, is getting flayed by both Radio Warsaw and Warsaw's newspaper, Sztandar Mlodych. His shocking behavior, say Trampisz' critics, rates him a three-year suspension. In a game at Cracow, his temper stoked with vodka, Trampisz dropped his shores, and gesticulated...
Originally, there were all-star contests in football and basketball, also, but these have since been discontinued. THE STANDINGS Won Lost Tied Pts. Dudley 9 2 0 18 Eliot 9 2 0 18 Adams 8 2 1 17 Dunster 7 3 1 15 Winthrop 4 7 0 8 Kirkland 2 8 1 5 Lowell 1 8 2 4 Leverett...