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...Mayoress de Gautier and about 30,000 Puerto Ricans turned out for a Solemn High Mass on the terrace of Keating Hall. And then the fiesta began. Mayor Wagner opened it by shattering a king-sized earthenware piñata (filled with gifts) with a green-covered baseball bat, and both mayor and cardinal were promptly bowled over in the crush of a crowd to pick up souvenir pieces...
...Carrying 130 lbs. in the Inglewood Handicap at Hollywood Park, California-bred Swaps responded to one whack of Willie Shoemaker's bat and galloped to a new world record of 1 minute 39 seconds for the mile-and-a-sixteenth course. It was Swaps's second world record in his last two starts: he snapped Citation's six-year-old mile record two weeks ago with a mark...
Bushes to Bigger. By this spring, after a couple of smart trades, the Pirates were no longer a band of courteous sea scouts. Bobby Bragan had been a flamboyant manager-clown back in the Pacific Coast League, once sent out a bat boy to coach third base. But up with the Pirates, Busher Bragan went big league, soon had his kids scrapping like old pros. When Slugger Dale Long hurt his leg trying to take an extra base, Bragan was delighted. "You know how he pulled that muscle?" he demanded happily. "He got it sliding hard into third, that...
Long's big bat is the power behind the Pirates. The tall, rugged first baseman leads the league in home runs (17) and is second in hitting (.377). A fortnight ago he set a major-league record by hitting the ball into the stands in eight consecutive games, had to come out of the dugout for a curtain call after the last homer when delighted Pittsburgh fans raised a fuss that stopped the game cold. At 30 Long is one of the oldest Pirate regulars (average age of the regular lineup: 25). For a while it looked...
...homer-hitters kept right on connecting. After letting his record string of home runs in successive games run out at eight, the Pirates' First Baseman Dale Long came back four days later and banged out his 15th of the season. The Yankees' Centerfielder Mickey Mantle, his batting average running well above .400, hit his 19th and 20th - and two days later the Yanks were punished in kind by a grand-slam belt off the bat of Detroit's Leftfielder Bob Kennedy...