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What was the hardest thing about the series? a newsman asked Johnny Bench, suddenly grown tired after gallons of champagne had gone down his gullet and spilled over his head...
...Bench thought for a while and said...
Died. Herbert W. Christen berry, 77, U.S. district judge in New Orleans; of an apparent heart attack; in Kentwood, La. Christenberry, who had been U.S. Attorney in his native New Orleans for five years, was appointed to the bench in 1947 by President Harry S. Truman. In the years since then, he made a number of pioneering rulings in civil rights cases, including a 1966 order forcing school integration in Plaquemines Parish, La., one of the longest Deep South holdouts against federal desegregation laws...
...Morgan led off the Cincinnati sixth and drew a walk. Bench followed with a hit-and-run single to center, and Morgan dashed to third. Tony Perez came up again and hit a Reggie Cleveland fastball off the facing of the upper deck in leftfield. Cincinnati then had a safe 5-1 lead...
...what they were most concerned with when they had their turn in the field. As batters stroked shot after shot either off the Green Monster or into the screen that tops it, outfielders tossed baseballs against the wall and scoreboard to see how the ball bounced off it. Johnny Bench cockily strode into the batting cage and sent four pitches in a row over the fence, three of them over the screen. Tony Perez next stepped in and put one out of the park and then Bench came back to smash two more into Landsdowne Street...