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...Milwaukee Lefthander Warren Spahn (23-7) led all major-league pitchers in effectiveness with an earned run average of 2.10 for every nine innings pitched. Runner-up: Yankee Lefthander Ed Lopat (16-4), with a 2.43 mark. Slugging leaders (determined by dividing total bases on hits by times at bat): Brooklyn Outfielder Duke Snider, .6271, Milwaukee Third Baseman Ed Mathews, .6269. In third place was Cleveland Third Baseman Al Rosen (.613), the American League's home-run leader (43), who got a salary raise to an estimated $40,000 last week. ¶ In Kansas City, the Montreal Royals...
From this exuberant paraphrase of Casey at the Bat, spread across a whole page of The Sun one morning last week, Baltimore baseball fans joyfully learned that their city's 51-year-exile from the major leagues was ended. After twice vetoing the transfer since last spring, the American League Club owners suddenly and solidly (8-0) voted to switch the St. Louis Browns' franchise to Baltimore. What changed their minds was the flying-wedge persistence of Baltimore's Mayor Tommy W. D'Alesandro and Attorney Clarence W. Miles, head of a Baltimore syndicate which will...
...Smith rather shyly relates, took a fancy to him and shipped him off to her brother's castle for safekeeping until she came of age. But Charatza's brother so mistreated him that one day, "forgetting all reason," John "beat out the Tymors braines with [my] threshing bat, for they have no flailes," and took off on the fellow's horse. Many adventures later he reached London, and almost at once embarked with the Virginia colonists for Jamestown...
Winning the toss, Australia chose to bat first. In cricket, as in baseball, the best batsmen lead off the order. To England's joy, the Aussies' best were quickly put out. But then Australia's "tail wagged"; her weaker batsmen managed to build their team's total to a respectable 275 runs before their tenth and last wicket fell (i.e., the side was retired on the equivalent of three baseball outs). Then England batted, scoring 306 runs to gain a lead of 31 on the first of the match's two innings. On the third...
...there was only a seven-hour playing day (with at least 1½ hours out for luncheon and tea) to do it in. Batsman Watson, slim and serious, stepped to the wicket. With chances of victory almost nil, England's practical aim was to stay at bat all day, thus pull out another draw. For 5 hrs. 45 min. Willie Watson stayed at his wicket, scored a drawn-out century (100 runs), finally left six fellow batsmen to "stonewall" (hit harmless, perfunctory grounders) for the game's final 40 minutes. At 6:30 p.m. the game was called...