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Among them: baseball's Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle, golf's Ben Hogan, Decathlon Champion Bob Mathias. But never has the myth been so effectively-and quickly-exploded as by Campy's game-winning homer...
Brought up from the Negro League's Kansas City Monarchs, Ernie hit .275 (including 19 homers) as a rookie last year, batted in 79 runs. Weighing only 170 Ibs., he depends on timing and strong wrist action to lift the ball. Said Cub Manager Stan Hack last week: "That boy's got no nerves. He's a real quiet, modest guy. After he hits a homer, he comes back to the dugout as if he done something wrong...
Hillbilly-humor lovers have already bought more than 110,000 recordings of the month-old Ballad of Davy Crew-cut (Homer & Jethro; RCA Victor...
...outfield, Minnie Minoso, fighting a dismal batting slump, was found quietly weeping in the locker room after one sorry performance last week ; he came back at week's end to hit a two-run homer against Boston. Minoso teams up with Jim Busby and Jim Rivera to make one of the fastest outfields in baseball. Busby has saved so many games that one newspaper headlined: Winning Pitcher: Busby...
...dancing on a hot griddle. All afternoon, the Cards collected only eight hits, turned them into three thin runs. Not a man among them drew a walk. The Dodgers, meanwhile, scored twelve times. In five times at bat the versatile Newk got two singles, a double, and a tremendous homer into the right field stands...