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...Angels are the second worst fielding team in the league. No Angel batter is hitting .300. The team roster reads like a page from Who's That? Centerfielder Albie Pearson is a 5-ft. 5-in. shortie who hits a golf ball better than a baseball, and sings rock 'n' roll on the side. Star Pitcher Bo ("No Hit") Belinsky is an unreconstructed pool shark. A retread catcher plays leftfield, and the Angels' double-play combination has toiled for a grand total of 16 other clubs. Manager Bill Rigney was sacked by the Giants, and General...
Besides all this, Bakery King Weston has gone from batter to wurst by opening 93 supermarkets in West Germany. This chain, manned largely by Germans who learned their trade running G.I. commissaries for the U.S. occupation forces, now grosses some $60 million a year. Unlike supermarketeers elsewhere, Weston does not try to undersell the German corner grocers. Instead, he outsells them by offering a far wider variety of goods, including such recently adopted Teutonic favorites as Wicks Vaporub and Reis Knusperle-which are Rice Krispies that do not go snap, crackle, pop but "knisper, knasper, knusper...
...ball game was in the 13th inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers were still locked tight in a 3-3 tie with the Houston Colts. In the Dodger dugout. Manager Walt Alston issued crisp orders to his lead-off batter, Shortstop Maurice Morning Wills...
...pitcher decides to throw to the plate. Most pitchers betray their decision by a subtle shift of their shoulders, a jerk of the head, or some other quirk. Wills knows, for example, that one Houston pitcher leans ever so slightly toward the plate just before he goes for the batter. "From the time he starts to lean to the time he goes into his delivery,'' says Wills, "I've taken two extra steps." He wastes no time trying to taunt a pitcher-"I don't wanna be a jumpin' jack. If I rile those pitchers...
...came in New York recently in a game with the Mets. Four times in that single game he stole second base-though only three of the steals went into the record books. His first time on base he stole second, but the umpire nullified the play because the Dodger batter had interfered with the catcher. Wills did not argue. He simply trotted back to first and stole again two pitches later...