Word: antonellis
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...Hitter Duke Snider, whose batting has fattened for years while the opposition pitched righthanders against his righthanded teammates, tried every trick in the book to boost his average. In the last game against the Giants he was faced with an unexpected surprise: the Giants' sparkling southpaw Ace Johnny Antonelli. The Duke promptly came up with a sore shoulder and sat out the game. In the next game he was right back at his hard-hitting ways...
Pitcher Johnny Antonelli and pinch-hitting Dusty Rhodes shared the World Series spotlight yesterday as the Giants won the second straight game, 3 to 1. After Cleveland's Al Smith homebred on the first pitch of the game, Antonelli shut out the Indians, striking out nine and leaving 13 men on base. Rhodes drove in the tying run in the fifth...
Marv Grissom, who relieved Sal Maglie in the eighth inning, got credit for the victory over Bob Lemon, who went all the way. Today, John Antonelli will probably face Early Wynn in the second game of the Series...
...York. At week's end, facing a crucial three-game series with the Giants, the Braves faltered, stood a formidable 4½ games off the pace. But the Giants were ready. By spoonfeeding his puny pitching staff, Manager Leo Durocher had saved his two aces: southpaw, Johnny Antonelli, 24, who has won 20 games, nearly a quarter of all Giant victories, and creaking Sal Maglie, 37, who has won 13 big ones. What is more, the Giants still have Willie Mays...
...intriguing aggregate in the majors. Willie Mays' return from the Army has seemingly done wonderful things for the team's morale and of course strengthened it greatly in center field. In addition, the old-time pitching big three--Hearn, Maglie and Jansen--have pleasingly returned to form. With Gomez, Antonelli, Liddle, Wilhelm and Spencer this makes a pretty potent staff which could conceivably carry the team to the pennant...