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...Burdette is, according to one exuberant announcer, "Mr. Wisconsin;" and a few radio reports after the game bothered to mention the name of the losing Yankee pitcher, Don Larsen...
...these are, as Burdette himself said, "the breaks." Had not Kubek made a high throw, Larsen might have escaped injury; and Burdette would have been far less of a hero if Bill Skowron's bases-loaded drive had not gone within reach of Eddie Mathews...
...Larsen, winner of the third game of this series in relief, will be the Yankee starter in tomorrow's seventh game at the stadium...
...over the Sox dwindle to 32 games. Their pitching staff was riddled with walking wounded: Little Bobby Shantz, who had carried the Yanks all summer, was nursing a sore pitching finger; Whitey Ford was worried with a shoulder that throbbed whenever he thought of throwing; World Series Hero Don Larsen was in disrepair. Their heaviest hitter, Center Fielder Mickey Mantle, was hobbled with shin splints; he was limping to the plate on legs taped from ankle to thigh. No game counts more than another in the precise percentages of the record book, but by any calculation, the games with...
...Second Game belonged to burly righthanded pitcher Bob Turley. Bullet Bob had come on in the late innings just the night before to hold off the Sox. Now he relieved Larsen in the sixth. His fast ball hopped over the corners, kept Chicago batters off balance and kept the Yankees teetering on top of a 5-to-4 lead...