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...biggest Hollywood business about the Dodgers was the comeback of veterans who had not starred since the glory days in Brooklyn. First Baseman Gil Hodges, 35, was again tough in the clutch (79 runs-batted-in), despite a taped ankle and forearm. Although he often rode the bench when southpaws began to throw. Outfielder Duke Snider, 33, had once again found his home-run bat (23). The Dodgers were even getting mileage out of gimpy Carl Furillo, 37, who explained: "I look at the ball, and I see dollar signs instead of stitches...
...long game off the tee: an oldfashioned, hickory-shafted putter, which he had ordered in Scotland last spring while helping Captain Coe defend the Walker Cup against the British amateurs. In the semifinals, faced with a 27-ft. putt downhill over a hump, Nicklaus precisely moved his new bat and watched the ball trickle home to eliminate California's Gene Andrews, 2 and 1. "There was no way that ball could get into the cup," complained Andrews, who carried a form chart on every green. "Just no way it could be done...
...with his mother, sometime Cinemactress Dorothy Arnold, 41, was having a final bat before returning to New Jersey's Lawrenceville School, where he plays no baseball, but puts the shot...
...majors, Pinson leads the team in hitting (.328) and stolen bases (17), simply outruns deep fly balls. Says Manager Freddy Hutchinson: "He's already got Willie Mays' range." Robinson is so painfully shy that he has little to say even around his Redleg teammates. But at bat Robinson is a power swinger who leans his head perilously close to the plate to get a good view of the pitch, last week hit a grand-slam home run as his team beat Milwaukee 9-8. In 1956, at the age of 20, Robinson broke into the Redlegs' lineup...
...Schoendienst may be back by September, but in the meantime Haney can more than make do with the men who won for him in 1957 and 1958: husky Third Baseman Ed Mathews is still hitting home runs (33), lean Rightfielder Hank Aaron is still leading the league with his bat (.367), and on the pitching staff 38-year-old Lefty Warren Spahn (15-11) and 32-year-old Righty Lew Burdette (16-12) have lost none of their guile...