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...Fritz Peterson 15. Earl Battey 16. Al Smith 17. Jerry Adair 18. Albie Pearson 19. Ralph Terry 20. Jimmy Piersall 21. Richie Ashburn 22. the ol' Smokehouse 23. Los Angeles Dodgers, 1965 24. Jim Gilliam, Maury Wills, Jim Lefebvre, and Wes Parker 25. Bob Friend-Pirates 26. Crosley Field, Cincinnati, May 24, 1934 27. Curt Simmons and reliefer Jim Konstanty 28. Rheingold 29. Cleveland Indians; Alex was the first full-blooded Indian to play in the majors 30. the new manager of the Phillies (he was manager last year too, kiddies) BONUS a) Jack Brickhouse by a little door...
...impotent bat and the omnipotent pitch, the National League's Cincinnati Reds are a curious anachronism. Their mound staff is a monument to mediocrity, which is why they are a hopeless 15½ games behind the St. Louis Cardinals. But Red batsmen are rattling the fences from Crosley Field to Candlestick Park. The team batting average is .270, tops in either league by 18 points. Four of their hitters are among the league's top ten; a fifth, Third Baseman Tony Perez, is second only to San Francisco's Willie McCovey in RBls with...
...stays in one piece. His hara-kiri habits sidelined him for two weeks last season when he banged up his shoulder diving for a sinking line drive. This year he ripped his hand open on the Crosley Field fence on the second day of the season. Next day, bandage and all, he collected two hits to launch a 22-game hitting streak...
...swings a bat. Last month in St. Louis' Busch Stadium, Wynn became the third player in history (the others: Joe Torre and Willie Mays) to bounce a ball off the beer sign in left centerfield, 440 ft. from home plate. In Cincinnati, he hit two home runs over Crosley Field's 45-ft.-high Scoreboard - one of which carried all the way onto an exit ramp of the Mill Creek Expressway...
Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic. It is election eve, but most of the attention is focused elsewhere#151;just about every radio in the city is tuned to the broadcast of a baseball game at Crosley Field in the U.S.A., where Juan Marichal is pitching against the Cincinnati Reds. The game is very tense. "If Juan were running for President," a voter sighs, "it would be a landslide." It might, and at least one poiltician knows it. Presidential Candidate Joaquin Balaguer has Juan's cousin, also named Juan Marichal, as a running mate on his ticket...