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Sandy Koufax had not won a game since Aug. 14, and for a while, as he labored against the Chicago Cubs last week, the 29,139 fans in Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium wondered whether baseball's top pitcher (record: 21-7) still had his stuff. His first pitch hit the dirt three feet in front of home plate, and for two full innings he threw nothing but curve balls-struggling to loosen the cramped muscles of his arthritic pitching arm. Finally, he tried a tentative fast ball, then a second and a third-and the crowd began...
Sandy Koufax's curve ball was low and inside. Juan Marichal, 27, ace pitcher (record: 19-9) of the San Francisco Giants, stood in the batter's box and watched it go by. Behind him, Los Angeles Dodger Catcher John Roseboro wound up, took aim and rifled the return throw right past the batter's ear. Marichal spun around. "Why do you do that? Why you do that?" he screamed. Roseboro did not answer. He started straight for Marichal, and in front of 42,807 horrified-or delighted, as the case may be-fans, Marichal swung...
...Warren Spahn, 44: a 3-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers; in Los Angeles. Traded to the New York Mets by the Milwaukee Braves after a dismal 1964 season in which he won only six games, the winningest pitcher in baseball today struck out two men in the ninth inning to cut off a Dodger rally, rack up the 357th victory of his major-league career...
Died. Erwin R. Bergdoll, 74, World War I draft dodger, the playboy son of a German-American brewer in Philadelphia, who, with his better known younger brother, Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, proclaimed "we do not wish to fight against our own kind," skipped around the country from 1918 to 1920, sending federal authorities postcards until he finally surrendered (Grover fled to Germany) and served half of a four-year sentence; of a heart attack; in Camden...
While Johnson hovered above the battle, Barry Goldwater plunged right into the thick of it last week with a four-day, 4,350-mile swing through seven Western and Midwestern states. Speaking from a makeshift platform over second base in Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium, from a mule-drawn buckboard in Sacramento, and from the stump of a 6-ft.-thick Douglas fir in Eugene, Ore., Barry stayed on the offensive with slashing vigor...