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After the speech, Noel Day, a social worker, led the crowd in singing "We Shall overcome," and Hughes, leaning against the battered blue sound truck behind home plate, shyly joined in. He then moved around the infield shaking hands, and told one woman that "the day after election day I'm going to start in on my work. I have a stack of Ph.d. theses that high to read," he said with a gesture of his hand...
...genuine bang, but as series go, it had more than its share of fizzles. "I don't have a damn thing to say about anything," snarled Yankee Mickey Mantle, who tried so hard to blast the ball into the bleachers that he rarely got it out of the infield, wound up pounding the ground in frustration over his .120 batting average. "I'm gonna go see a doctor," confided San Francisco's weary Willie Mays, who drove in 121 runs during the regular season, only one during the World Series. Yankee Slugger Roger Maris managed just five...
...Pacific, he finally saw the fog rise over the Golden Gate Bridge, politely offered sake to the puzzled U.S. immigration officials who met him. The immigration service decided to grant a one-month visa, and Happy Horie popped off to see the sights, surrounded by the giggling infield of Osaka's touring girls' Softball team. Back home, Japanese officials had to decide whether to fine Horie for illegal exit or hail him as a national hero, the first Japanese to sail the Pacific solo...
Plagued by injuries to its pitching staff, fourth-place Pittsburgh is currently in an off swing in their on-again-off-again season. A fine outfield, and an excellent infield have not been able to compensate for injuries to the like of righthander Bob Gibbon or for Vern Law's failure to make a completely successful comeback...
...great lefthander can still, on a given day, be one of the best around. The Braves have also had fine performances from Hank Aaron, Eddie Mathews, and even aging Joe Adcock; but the pitching staff is no longer one of the best in the league, and the infield isn't as impressive as it once...