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Five Dodger regulars are hitting over .300: Outfielder Carl Furillo leads the league at .344; Outfielders Duke Snider and Jackie Robinson, First Baseman Gil Hodges and Catcher Roy Campanella are among the league's top batters. The Dodgers have hit a club record of 196 home runs-40 of them by Campanella, who has also set an alltime catcher's record for runs batted in (139). Brooklyn leads the league in fielding, and its pitching staff, though weakened by the failure of last year's relief man Joe Black to come through as a regular starter...
Team: Milwaukee (by 2½ games) Pitcher: Surkont, Milwaukee (9-1) Batter: Schoendienst, St. L. (.344) Runs Batted In: Campanella, Brooklyn (62) Home Runs: Mathews...
...Campanella, 31, remembers "the old days in the Negro leagues when I once caught four games in one day, then rode a bus all night." His pay for that kind of work used to be $65 a month...
Nowadays, Catcher Campanella, a Cadillac owner, draws more than $30,000 a year in salary from the Brooklyn Dodgers -and is worth every penny of it. A canny handler of pitchers. Campanella this week was also leading the National League in hitting (.370), and he had driven in almost twice as many runs (43) as anybody else, and was leading both leagues in homers (12 in 26 games...
...just luck," says Campy. "When you're hitting, you hit." Sturdy Catcher Campanella (5 ft. 8 in., 195 Ibs.) should know: he has had other dazzling early-season hitting streaks which faded into just plain competence by midseason. But he acknowledges that he is standing "a little closer to the plate" than he did last year, when his season's batting average was only .269. "That gives me a little more wood on the ball." Whatever the explanation, Campanella's hitting is a profound source of pleasure to Brooklyn Manager Charley Dressen. who has been shuffling...