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...until the eleventh inning, while Whitey Ford, his sore arm suddenly healthy, held the Sox to a 1-to-1 tie. Then, Enos stepped to the plate, took an effortless swing at the first pitch and sent the ball high and far into the right center-field stands. After Hank Bauer's third-inning homer, that was all the Yankees needed to win, 2-1, and head home with a 6½-game lead...
Veteran Braves like Hank Aaron (now leading the league with 37 home runs and 102 runs batted in) and Pitcher Warren Spahn have found their old winning form. And Manager Haney has found himself in possession of the one essential ingredient of managerial genius: a pennant-winning club. At week's end the fast-finishing schedule left the Braves a comfortable 7½ games ahead of their only competitors, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Brooklyn Dodgers...
...beginning to live up to preseason expectations, and from second base old (34) ex-Giant Red Schoendienst was spreading his old pro's confidence to the whole team. But the man mainly responsible for the Braves' surge into first place was a lithe Negro outfielder named Hank Aaron, who is hitting the baseball better and more often than any man in the National League...
...Hank Aaron is a predictable quantity-he gets his quota of base hits no matter what happens to the Braves. In last week's key series, he peered at the Phillies' pitchers with sleepy eyes, the end of his bat twitching ominously like the tail of a prowling panther. He seemed almost to be napping as the ball started toward him, but at the last instant he snapped his powerful wrists and the bat whistled in a perfectly coordinated arc. When he was through swinging against the Phils, Aaron had smashed out six hits in seven tries...
...balloting was perfectly legal under the somewhat farcical procedures followed by the big leagues, Commissioner Ford Frick felt compelled to step in last week and decree that the Redlegs may have only five starting positions. The All-Stars, Cincinnati public opinion notwithstanding, must have room for such as Hank Aaron and Willie Mays from other clubs...