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...second game-won by the Dodgers 8-7-lasted a record 4 hr. 18 min., and the weary combatants used a record 42 players. Eleven runs scored in one inning, and there was a grand total of 20 hits, three errors and 20 men left on base. Then, in the ninth, the winning run dribbled across the plate, without benefit of a hit. On first with nobody out. Dodger Speedster Maury Wills upset a series of Giant pitchers to such an extent that they walked one batter, threw to the wrong base on another, and pushed Wills around to third...
...after the Giants had clinched the pennant, they faced a young Dodger lefty named Karl Spooner. He fanned 15, and before fading into obscurity the next spring, he excited a winter slogan in Flatbush: "Now we got Spooner sooner...
...Dodger Catcher Roy Campanella was driving at only 30 m.p.h. one winter evening in 1958, when his car skidded into a utility pole. Despite the moderate speed, Campy broke his bull neck in the crackup; he was paralyzed for life, from the chest down. Just one year later, Campy was driven into another accident. This time the car was going 40; the driver and two other passengers wound up in a hospital. But Campy was unhurt. Having learned the hard way that most traffic accidents happen at low speeds and close to home, the ex-ballplayer was wearing a seat...
Then there's Stan Williams. What I mean is that behind Koufax, Dyrsdale, and a revitalized Johnny Podres, there isn't much in the way of a fourth starter. The Dodger farm system is full of potentially great pitchers, but Joe Moeller, Pete Richert, Phil Ortega and Nick Willhite are far from ready for the majors...
...That? That the talent-laden Dodgers sat atop the National League astonished no one. But the Angels were the shock of the year. They did not even exist until last season, when Cowboy-Singer Gene Autry (himself a Dodger fan) forked over $2,150,000 for a franchise and a crew of ballplayers unloaded by other American League clubs. Last year the Angels were lucky to win 70 games and finish eighth in the ten-team league. Most sportswriters picked them for eighth this season-and on paper, the estimate still looks generous...