Word: late-season
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Later on, when even the World Series is just another set of numbers in the record book, the Dodgers will have time to muse on their unlovely, late-season staggers. But long after they have forgotten the men left on base, the muffed bunts, all the flubbed chances to put a close game on ice, they will remember Newk on the 19th. This was the kind of performance that makes legend-the legend of one man seemingly determined to do it all by himself...
Last week, when the chips were down, National Leaguers began to wonder just what class they were really in. Out on the field the front-running Milwaukee Braves and the World Champion Dodgers came all unstrung in their late-season fight for the flag. September was suddenly chill in the stands, and the voice of fair-weather fans cracked into silence. Their best teams had gone back to the bushes...
...Tightening up for the late-season drive for the flag, the New York Yankees gave their longtime (13 seasons) Shortstop Phil Rizzuto, 37, his unconditional release to make room for a new outfielder. The new man: Kansas City's 40-year-old Enos ("Country") Slaughter. A remarkably durable relic of the old Cardinals, Country Slaughter was traded to the Yanks in 1954, sent to the Athletics last year...
Aside from some secondary, late-season statistics, the American League pennant race is over. The Yankees are in. Yet even Yankee haters are still watching the ball games, for these days the Yanks supply their own competition. Every inning that he comes to bat, their broad-backed slugger, Mickey Charles Mantle, tangles with one of baseball's fanciest records: the massive total of 60 home runs hit by the Yankees' Babe Ruth during the 1927 season...
With the Crimson's forward wall in top late-season form, even Zipper Thompson and Piscuskas should be forced to settle for short-gain end runs. The varsity line interior of Captain Bill Meigs, Jan Meyer, John Maher, Tice and Metropoulos have been described by Bruin coach Al Kelley as being "as good as any in the Ivy League and superior, at least, to Yale...