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Dehydration. In Pampa, Texas, D. F. Gilliam was tossed into jail for 90 days for trying to stuff his wife and daughter into an electric clothes dryer...
...lose. With the loss of Jackie Robinson and Carl Erskine, and the slowdown of Roy Campanella and Peewee Reese, the Bums are a shell of their former magnificent selves. The pitching of Don Newcombe, Don Drysdale, the aging Sal Maglie, and Clem Labine, plus the hitting of Junior Gilliam, Duke Snider, Gil Hodges, and Carl Furillo will keep the Dodgers in contention...
...eighth inning Sturdivant was obviously weary. Between pitches he fidgeted like a man with a mouse down his back. In the ninth, with one Brooklyn run scored and the bases still full of Dodgers, even Casey got the jumps. But Sturdivant struck out Pinch-Hitter Randy Jackson, got Junior Gilliam on an easy fly for the last out and a 6-2 victory...
Robinson fouled one, took a ball and then lashed a line drive into left field. Slaughter raced for the ball which sailed over his head and rolled away as fleet Junior Gilliam scored...
...against the cellardwelling Chicago Cubs. But they managed to win both, despite umpires dedicated to the proposition that in a stretch drive anything goes. In the first inning of the second game, Chicago's Don Hoak broke up a double play with a spikes-first slide at Junior Gilliam, standing a "safe" two yards off the bag. Manager Alston was too preoccupied to protest...