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...first series grand slam ever hit by a National Leaguer. The homer tied the series at two games each-only to be untied next time around by New York's Tom Tresh, 24, everyone's choice for Rookie-of-the-Year and the only Yankee who batted over .300. Son of a onetime Chicago White Sox catcher, Leftfielder Tresh came to bat in the eighth inning with the score tied 2-2, and smashed a three-run homer. Said Mickey Mantle with a wry smile: "Gee, it must be nice to hit a homer in the series...
...Giants, though falling to take full advantage of their opponents' inability to hit, were more than a worthy opponent. The turning point of the series didn't come until that last shot off the bat of Willie McCovey hit Bobby Richardson's glove to keep the winning run and 120,859.44 sitting on second base...
...threat to Budge's lonely eminence. One of the "tennis babies" that Australia seems to breed as profusely as kangaroos, he was one of four children, all tennis players, brought up by a father who was an avid player and a mother who sometimes skipped kitchen duties to bat tennis balls around with her brood. At 15 he quit school to play tennis fulltime under the eye of Harry Hopman, the genius of Australian tennis. His booming serve and volley are impressively hard for a little man; but his greatest strength is his vicious ground game and the cunning...
...never could pull, from the first day I picked up a bat. I pull a ball and you know where it goes? It goes to right centerfield, that's where." In the era of the home run, Singles Hitter Runnells is an overlooked oddity...
...never been much for walking up to people and saying 'Hey, I'm Pete Runnells,' " he says. "It's probably embarrassment. Maybe if I were more pushy I'd have made more dough." Never Mind. This season, as usual, Runnells' busy bat is doing all the pushing. But Pete has still mistaked only nine home runs in 1962. "It used to be quite a thing to lead the league in hitting," he says. "But now, from the standpoint of the fans, that don't sit so high. I just...