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Sonny is black. The kind of music he creates is a blend of jazz and gospel, with a glossy Stan Kenton sound and a chorus singing Sonny's simple lyrics-about peace and freedom, with a little protest thrown in. His career began in Cincinnati, where he wrote his first song before he was eight. Through a draft-board mix-up in 1943, Sonny was tapped for the Marines when he was only 14, got out, then served in the Navy from 1945 to 1948. By the time he was discharged, he had become a good clarinetist and saxophonist...
...front porch. The paper landed on the roof. Robinson, now 33, has made few bad plays since. Last week, throwing, fielding and hitting like a man possessed, baseball's premier third baseman led the Baltimore Orioles to a four-games-to-one World Series victory over the Cincinnati Reds with one of the most spectacular performances in the 67-year history of the Series...
...opener in Cincinnati's new Riverfront Stadium set the stage for a classic confrontation. The Orioles, blessed with three 20-game winners, had the stoppers-the best starting pitchers in baseball. The Reds, who slammed 191 home runs during the regular season, had the boppers-the strongest hitting team in baseball. Experts set the odds almost even-11-10 on Cincinnati. As it turned out, the Orioles should have been clear off the board. Determined to avenge last year's shattering Series defeat by the New York Mets, the Oriole pitchers stalled the vaunted Big Red Machine while...
...Cincinnati's Lee May had to learn the hard way. In the first game the muscular first baseman drilled a sure-fire double down the third-base line-or so he and 51,531 fans thought. In one lightning motion, Brooks whirled across the line, snared the ball backhand and threw off-balance to nip May at first. Next game. May hit another shot down the line that the lunging Robinson speared on one knee and turned into a double play. Rubbing it in, Robby the Robber stole another base hit from Cincinnati in the third game with...
Which is not to say that the rest of the Orioles were standing idly by. Baltimore's Big Three-Jim Palmer, Mike Cuellar and Dave McNally-helped hold Cincinnati's vaunted sluggers to a meager .213 average and only five home runs. And Frank Robinson, Boog Powell and Paul Blair backed a .292 Baltimore hitting attack that accounted for 50 hits and 33 runs. The Orioles' slug ging average of .509 was in fact a record for a five-game Series, as were their ten home runs. Even McNally got into the act as he became...