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Some 50,000 fans sat on the edge of their seats for the first game, which the Red Sox finally won, after staving off Chicago's two-run rally in the ninth inning. Clyde Vollmer, the least celebrated member of Boston's all-star outfield, won the game with a seventh-inning home run. Score: 3-2. The second game was even tighter. At the end of nine innings the score was 4-4. Not until the 17th inning, the longest night game in American League history, did the Red Sox win, 5-4. The man who drove...
...collection-this time, the "Mighty Monarch of TV" award ("whatever the hell that is"), presented, with two kisses, by television's Faye Emerson. Then early this week, he flew to Detroit for a more specific honor: announcing, for the 12th time, baseball's annual All-Star game...
...National League, the race was beginning to look like a walkaway. The Brooklyn Dodgers, who have led the league since the middle of May, were still far out in front. Backed by three members of the 1951 All-Star team-First Baseman Gil Hodges, Second Baseman Jackie Robinson and Catcher Roy Campanella-the Dodgers have not been less than 4½ games ahead of the second-place Giants for a fortnight. Even when the Dodgers are in a slump (they won only two of seven games last week), the rest of the league has obligingly protected the Brooklyn lead...
Munro also was keenly disappointed that midfielder Dick Post and goalie Syd Clark were not named to the squad, since to two players have turned in better performances in the New England League this season than League opponents named to their positions on the All-Star squad...
...Opponents team was chosen at a dinner given Wednesday in honor of Munro. Dartmouth and Springfield placed three men each on the tenman team. Three of the four N.E.L. players on the North-South squad, incidentally, were picked to the Crimson team prior to the release of the All-Star selections. The missing player on the Crimson team is Yale's goalie Dick Treadwell...