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...outfield, one of the best in the majors, is an embarrassment of riches. Centerfielder Vada Pinson leads both leagues with 112 hits, sports a .323 average. Burly Rightfielder Frank Robinson, a .336 hitter with 25 home runs and 73 runs batted in, sparked the surge that put Cincinnati five games in front of Los Angeles just before the All-Star game...
...Cincinnati may not be batty yet this season-as Composers Larry Vincent and Moe Jaffe would have it in the song they wrote to celebrate the Reds' surprising climb to first place in the National League. But last week it was getting there fast. Shopkeepers unearthed yellowed 1940 newspapers and put them on display as a reminder of the last time the Reds won a pennant. Music lovers carried transistor radios to the Cincinnati Zoo's summer opera to hear the score between arias of Verdi's Macbeth. Attendance at Crosley Field was up 24% over last...
Only last spring Cincinnati was scornfully dismissed as a sixth-place club with no more than a 25-1 shot at first place. The oddsmakers ignored the team because of its untested pitching staff and shaky infield. When the Reds stumbled off to a 5-10 start and plummeted into the cellar by the end of April, the oddsmakers seemed to have been right...
This year it's Cincinnati...
...unearned run. But when Baltimore's Hoyt Wilhelm went to the mound, four Negro batsmen pushed across two runs to win the game before anybody was out. Milwaukee's Hank Aaron lashed a pinch single to center. Mays doubled him home. After Wil helm hit Cincinnati's Frank Robinson with a pitch. Clemente lined a sharp single to right, and Willie Mays jogged across the plate. It was the third straight All-Star victory for the National League -and a good reason for the American League to recruit more Negro talent...