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...point is the simple fact that the strike zone this year is bigger than last. Pitchers trained to hit the bull's-eye can now hit the first ring and still have it count; umpires have had to liberalize their standards for called strikes. "The batter," says Cincinnati Pitcher Jim O'Toole, "doesn't take as many pitches, and he's swinging at more bad ones, so there are fewer walks...
...throughout the nine-year marriage, José seemed subdued and penitent, insisted he still loved Rosemary and wanted a reconciliation. "Not at this time," said Rosemary, and she made it sound as if what she really meant was never, never, never. But last week, when the two flew into Cincinnati together to visit their five children, they let it be known that they had made up, after all, canceling their California divorce just a few days before it was to have become final...
JOSEPH STONE Cincinnati...
...Koufax, 27. So far this season, Koufax has pitched one no-hitter (against Manager Dark's Giants), two two-hitters and four three-hitters. His earned run average is a lean 1.64, and he leads both major leagues with 163 strikeouts. He started last week by blanking the Cincinnati Reds on three hits, 4-0. Five days later, he picked up another shutout (his ninth) at the expense of the New York Mets, 6-0, and became the first pitcher in either league to win 15 games...
...Problem. Sanford Koufax is a lawyer's son who stumbled into baseball by chance. At Brooklyn's Lafayette High School basketball was his game; he won a scholarship to the cage-crazy University of Cincinnati, turned out for baseball just to liven up a dull freshman spring. "I have one problem," Sandy told the coach. "I can't hit." "Well," said the coach, "maybe you can pitch." In his first two games, Koufax struck out 34 batters, and big-league scouts began pounding on his dormitory door. The Dodgers got there first, with a contract that called...