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...World Champion Los Angeles Dodgers won their opener, and then lost nine out of the next ten. More painful still was the indefinite loss of Star Pitcher Sandy Koufax (25 victories in 1963), who injured a muscle in his pitching...
...Yankee Catcher Elston Howard: the American League's Most Valuable Player award. First Negro ever to win, Howard batted .287, hit 28 homers, drove in 85 runs for the American League champions. Already chosen as the National League's Most Valuable: Dodger Pitcher Sandy Koufax, who led in won-loss record (25-5), beat the Yanks twice in the Series...
...HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Andy Griffith, Martha Raye, Jane Russell and Dodger Pitcher Sandy Koufax...
After three games, the Yankees had managed 16 base hits, just three runs. And then, there on the mound for the fourth game stood Koufax again. Mickey Mantle finally hit a fast ball into the bleachers. It was the only Yankee run. Sandy Koufax's teammates got him two runs-and that was all he needed to make the Los Angeles Dodgers the first team in history to sweep the Yankees four straight in the World Series...
...Last week Dodger Physician Robert Woods disclosed that Koufax's finger had been saved by the use of four drugs: Coumadin (an anticoagulant), fibrinolysin (used to dissolve clots in blood vessels), Ilidar and Priscoline (both used to dilate arteries...