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Detroit, finally living up to its reputation for awesome plate power, unsheathed its bats in the top of the third. The Tigers sent 15 men to the plate to face four different and equally ineffective Cardinal pitchers and cracked out seven base hits, including Jim Northrup's grand-slam homer...
Norm Cash and veteran Al Kaline both tied a Series record for most hits (two) in one inning, and Kaline, who went three-for-four and batted in four runs, belted his second homer of the Series in the fifth for the final Detroit...
Kaline's heroics would not have helped much if Mickey Lolich, rocked for three runs in the first inning when Orlando Cepeda smacked a two-run homer, hadn't blanked the Cardinals the rest...
Lolich, who hit a homer in pitching Detroit to its only previous victory in the second game, started the winning surge in the seventh with a single...
Liberal papers throughout the country righteously excoriated the cabal of Southern Democrats and conservative Republicans who held up, and finally defeated, the appointments of Fortas and former congressman Homer Thornberry. Unfortunately, much less time was spent on the substantive issue of whether Fortas, and more particularly Thornberry, were good choices for the positions. That they were opposed by the Senate neanderthals, and that many of the attacks on Fortas were fatuous and petulant, seemed enough to make the case for their appointments airtight and inviolable...