Word: homering
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...Third Baseman Clete Boyer watched a grounder trickle right between his legs-prompting a friendly note from Brother Ken: "No. 6, watch out for those hops. (Signed) No. 14." Cardinal Outfielder Mike Shannon put the finishing touch on a 9-5 St. Louis victory with a 500-ft. homer that clipped the leftfield scoreboard-between the B and the U in BUDWEISER. Said Shannon modestly: "I just closed my eyes and swung...
...McCarver belted a three-run homer in the tenth inning to give St. Louis a 5-2 win over New York in the fifth game of the World Series yesterday...
...single by Tom Tresh promptly scored Mantle, and the Yanks added two more in the next inning to make it 4-1. The Cards made it 4-2, but a ninth-inning homer by Phil Linz, followed with hits by Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle, and Pepitone, and a sacrifice fly by Tresh, put the game out of reach...
...Cards entered the sixth inning trailing the Yanks 4-2 as a result of Tommy Tresh's two-run homer in the second. But Ken Boyer singled and with one out, Shannon whacked a 450-foot blast off the left-field scoreboard in St. Louis' Busch Stadium...
Frantic Frenchmen. The Met's greatest stroke was its 1961 auction purchase of Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer; armed with backing from Redmond's board, Rorimer outbid the well-heeled Cleveland Museum with the highest known price ever paid for an art object, $2,300,000. But that deal involved only money, of which the Met has access to loads ($104 million-plus in assets, exclusive of its art riches); other triumphs are more intriguing. Four years ago, the Met stirred outrage in the Gaullist Parliament by quietly acquiring, for possibly...