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...short leftfield foul line, has always been tough for left-hand pitchers. In the afternoon, Casey started Lefty Tommy Byrne-and lost. In the nightcap, when Righty Don Larsen was shelled from the mound, Casey turned stubbornly to another southpaw, stocky Whitey Ford, who is not only a left-hander but also a valuable starter, too important to tire in relief. It turned out to be the right move...
...Newcombe's midseason form suggested. When the big righthander is hot, he can throw his fast ball past anyone; when he gets behind and has to come in with it, good hitters murder him. He holds his team record for throwing home-run balls (35 this season). Right-hander Carl Erskine has been off form all year; Billy Loes and Johnny Podres are just too erratic to be counted on. Clem Labine, right-handed relief artist, the pitcher who did most to keep the Dodgers in front, will be a busy man in the bullpen. On the brighter side...
...Right-hander Kenneth Rossano '56 of Kirkland House and Hemstead, N.Y., succeeds Bill Cleary as captain of the 1956 baseball team. Rossano was elected over the summer by the mail vote of the lettermen after Cleary, who had been elected captain following the final Yale game in June, left for army service. While in uniform Cleary--the nation's leading college hockey scorer last season--will be eligible to play for the United States Olympic Hockey Team...
...Using all his carefully controlled skill against the league-leading Dodgers, Robin Roberts, best right-hander of the feeble fourth-place Phillies, beat big Don Newcombe, 3-2, and became the first major-league pitcher to win 20 games this season...
...Right-hander Ted Brigham batted in two runs and scattered eight hits to pace the freshman baseball team to a 5'-3' triumph over Andover yesterday at Soldiers Field...