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...home run, Maury Wills is a refreshing throwback to an older, and in some ways more exciting time when ball games were won or lost by speed on the bases. In 1915 the late great Ty Cobb set the major league season record by stealing 96 bases for Detroit, and legend has it that "the Georgia Peach'' filed a knife-edge on his steel spikes to enforce his belief that "the base paths belong to the runner." The 29-year-old Wills has the same determined speed-if not the same temperament. With more than half...
...says, and when he barrels into the base in an explosion of dust, no one knows which hand or elusive toe will reach out to nick the bag. Yet he goes in for none of the spikes-high, chop-up-the-baseman kind of slide that marked Ty Cobb's style (Cobb once received 13 threatening letters from angry fans after slashing Philadelphia's famed "Home Run" Baker). In his major league career, the mild-mannered Wills has never hurt an opposing player...
...Musial can maintain anything like his blazing early-season pace-.322 batting average-he will pass two more baseball milestones by the time the season is out: Babe Ruth's record of 1,356 extra-base hits, set in 1935, and Ty Cobb's mark of 5,863 total bases...
...such swashbuckling company, Stan Musial seems pleasantly out of place-living proof that nice guys do not necessarily finish last. Nobody has ever seen him sulk or throw a tantrum. Unlike Ruth, he has never punched a cop. Unlike Cobb, he has never attacked a crippled heckler in the stands. Unlike Wagner, he has never stuffed a ball into a base runner's teeth. He is, says ex-Teammate Joe Garagiola, a "saint with money." Only once, in 1959, has he openly disputed an umpire's call. The ump's reaction was hilarious-he gaped at Musial...
...General Electric Theater (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). The Unstoppable Grey Fox, an original TV play by William Saroyan, in which Lee J. Cobb plays an ousted State Department official...