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...proved to be the deciding run. Rudi made sure of that in the ninth by climbing high up the left-field wall to rob Denis Menke of a run-scoring double. The remarkable catch earned Rudi a place in World Series history next to Al Gionfriddo, who robbed Joe DiMaggio in 1947, and Willie Mays, who did the same thing to Vic Wertz in 1954. Hunter, a 21-game winner last season, threw a six-hitter to give Oakland a 2-1 victory...
...general, the President's selections were obvious enough (Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays and the like). They spread across a movie infantry-platoon ethnic spectrum. As New York Times Columnist Red Smith noted, Nixon "saluted young and old, white and black, Latin and Nordic, lefthander and righthander, Catholic and WASP, Jew and American Indian." No one would be offended, except perhaps a handful of Liechtensteiner and Tibetan diamond buffs...
Lolich grew up contrary, but if he had not, baseball might well have made him so. For nine years he has been one of the game's outstanding pitchers. But like Lou Gehrig, who labored first in the shadow of Babe Ruth and then Joe DiMaggio, Lolich has usually seemed to be second best. He had the initial misfortune of being teamed with the Peck's Bad Boy of baseball, Denny McLain. The outstanding performance of Lolich's career-three World Series victories over the St. Louis Cardinals in 1968 -was virtually lost in the glare...
...good pitching and good hitting like always, but there's more to winning than just statistics. Some of the best players in the league would have sold their souls to beat us out for the pennant, but in a clutch situation, they would always back down. When DiMaggio or Dickey came to the plate with the winning run on base, the opposing pitcher just knew he was going to lose, and he'd give up. It happened all the time...
...year) used to be selling fresh water to the British garrison. Ajman (pop. 4,000), with no oil and only a primitive fishing industry, survives primarily by selling stamps to philatelists of the world, who are charmed by Arab postage bearing the images of the Kennedy brothers, Joe DiMaggio and Babe Ruth...