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...other major league action yesterday, Hank Aaron blasted the 678th home-run of his career to lead the Atlanta Braves to a 2-0 victory over the New York Mets. The homer leaves him 36 short of Babe Ruth's all-time record...
Driscoll's bid for a no-hitter was spoiled in the last inning on an infield single by Vin Yakavonis. Driscoll helped out his own cause inthe fourth inning as he smashed a homer over Brown leftfielder Yakavonis...
...Homer's Proteus was more than a quick-change artist. Once pinned down-and the problem was in the pinning-he would revert to his original shape and utter prophecies. So with Picasso; and some of the deepest and most durable work he produced was made when he was, if not pinned down, at least constrained by shared responsibility. Thus his co-invention, with Braque, of Cubism: that system of anchoring and interlocking forms in space that proved to be the first workable (though less systematic) alternative to Renaissance perspective in modern...
...form of heroics. With two out and two strikes in the top of the ninth, he lined a Roz Brayton pitch to within five feet of the fence to score teammate Charlie Thorne and tie the score 1-1. Jauron's double, within an eyelash of becoming a homer, was one of only three hits that Crimson senior Brayton allowed in the contest. Yale pitcher Corcoran was tagged for a run in the third and one in the ninth, but managed to escape with a four-hitter...
...pulled to within one run, 5-4, in the second as Dwight Evans led off with his first homer and singles by Tommy Harper and Carl Yastrzemski and an infield out provided another tally...