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...pitching, not hitting, may be the key. In fact there are more damn good pitchers in this Series than you or I ever saw before. Count'em: Whitey Ford, Luis Arroyo, Ralph Terry, Bill Stafford, Jim Coates, Roland Sheldon, Hal Reniff, Jim O'Toole, Joey Jay, Bob Purkey, Jim Brosnan, Bill Henry, and Ken Johnson...
...week's end their combined total broke the two-man record of 107 homers set by Ruth (60) and Gehrig (47) back in 1927. The pitching staff was solid: Whitey Ford was safely on the winning side of his first 20-game season, and Veteran Screwballer Luis Arroyo, 34, has become the finest Yankee relief pitcher since "Fireman Joe" Page. The infield was the tightest in baseball, and the Yanks led the league in just about everything that counted: runs, home runs and double plays...
Bolstering the staff, Luis Arroyo with his tricky greaseball could straighten out to be one of the toughest hurlers in the Senior circuit. And, too, in the St. Louis training camp last month at St. Petersburg, the watchword was "watch Vinegar Bend Mizell." The phrase referred to southpaw Wilmer Mizell...
Pitchers are Casey's biggest problem. His two surest starters, Whitey Ford and Tommy Byrne, are both lefthanders. And no one knows better than Casey that all season long only one southpaw, the Cardinals' Luis Arroyo, started and finished a game against Brooklyn-and he lost...
...siege, clamped an 8 p.m. curfew on the capital. Loyalist forces besieged the Rio Santiago naval base. Pounded by planes and outnumbered at least two to one on the ground, the defending navymen surrendered late that night. The next morning the government announced that its troops had wrested Arroyo Seco and Curuzú-Cuatiá from the rebels...