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Midnight Man. Now, in the wild glare of series fame, fans discovered that Dusty was a ballplayer right out of a book: Ring Lardner's Busher, magnificently self-assured, not one bit abashed by the big leagues, thoroughly convinced that he and his big bat could win a World Series by themselves...
...Willie's year. In the last game he came through with three hits in four times at bat, pushed his average to an impressive .345. In second place: Don Mueller with...
MacDonald's classmate, right fielder Donald H. Butters '55 of Natick, received the Wingate Memorial Cup as the best all around player on the squad. And the Wendell Bat went to William J. Cleary, Jr. '56 of Winthrop House and Cambridge; Cleary gained the annual prize for having the highest agregate point total for runs, runs batted in, stolen bases, sacrifices, and safe arrivals at first...
Today nearly half the world's Jews live in the U.S., more than 5,000,000. New York City has more Jewish inhabitants (2,250.000) than Israel, more than any other city in history. Tercentenary orators and writers happily bat up statistics, e.g., as a group the Jews supply twice their proportionate share of the nation's college students and only half their share of the jailbirds. But, beyond anything that statistics could express, the Jews' life under America's sheltering trees was a new experience after their long wanderings. Writes Historian Oscar Handlin: "Looking backward...
...midseason Willie Mays and his home-run bat were the hottest pair in the National League. Swinging with the delight of a schoolboy and the skill of an old pro, the loose, limber centerfielder of the New York Giants had clouted 30 homers to threaten Babe Ruth's alltime record of 60 in one season...