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...wall between two sprinting outfielders, and by the time the relay throws reached the infield, Bench, no whippet on the base paths, had crossed home plate standing up with the first inside-the-park home run of his major-league career. That heralded his return to fearsome normalcy at bat. Before the night ended Bench had rapped a bases-loaded single and cleared the wall in the ninth inning, a blow that gave the Reds a 9-5 victory. The next night Bench capped the Reds' second six-run outburst of the game with his ninth home...
...Mate Gary Nolan to whip the Montreal Expos; Nolan won his eighth game in nine decisions as Bench went four-for-six at the plate, driving in three runs. By the time the Reds returned from that astonishing road trip, Bench had collected 21 hits in 51 times at bat to raise his batting average to .306, and had belted nine homers and driven in 24 RBls. More important to Johnny and his teammates, the Reds were where they felt they belonged-in first place. This time they came home to a cheering crowd of 2,000 at Cincinnati...
Died. Morris ("Moe") Berg, 70, superintellect of big league baseball; in Belleville, N.J. After graduating from Princeton with honors in 1923, Berg signed on for a summer with the Brooklyn Dodgers to finance a trip to Europe. Despite his mediocre bat (.243 lifetime average), he stayed in the game for 19 years, the last seven as catcher and coach for the Boston Red Sox. In the offseason he also became fluent in ten languages, studied at the Sorbonne, and picked up a law degree at Columbia University. Berg quit baseball in 1942 and served as an OSS agent in Nazi...
...were clean bowled recently to discover that Bhutto, who grew up in Bombay, still holds a life membership in the C.C.I. The club has scheduled a special meeting to resolve the situation. One faction wants to expel him: Bhutto in his prime may have been a rather good opening bat, but, dash it, did he not let the side down by declaring war on India? A smaller pro-Bhutto clique will argue for his continued membership. After all, if Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is willing to summit with the chap (probably at the end of the month), shouldn...
...holds the Red Sox record for the highest batting average in one year, what did he bat, and when? What other Sox record does he hold...