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...league. Bouncing out of a brief slump, he banged out two hits in three trips against the Kansas City Athletics, boosted his batting average to .320, and allowed: "I stay lucky, I got a chance to win the title again." If Oliva does, he will be the first American Leaguer to win three straight batting championships since Ty Cobb...
Harvard's three hits that inning were a misplayed bunt by Dockery, a liner by Neville that the center fielder played for a triple, and an opposite-field Texas Leaguer by Welz. A walk to Joe O'Donnell and three bad throws were the other key ingredients of the big inning...
...City in the year of the 400th anniversary of Columbus' 1492 voyage, the week of the dedication of Columbus Circle.) Young Chris grew up in a modest duplex in a tough part of Phoebus, played a good game of sand-lot baseball and dreamed of becoming a big-leaguer. To this day, his most prized possession is a baseball he had autographed by Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig one hot summer day when he was nine years old. In high school, he handled mathematics with such facility that he decided to study engineering−in case he should fail...
...many respects, the operation was similar to the arm-saving surgery performed on 12-year-old Little Leaguer Everett Knowles Jr.* at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital (TIME, June 8, 1962). The major difference was that Everett's arm had been torn off by a train. Pennell's hand had been neatly severed-a great aid for the North Carolina surgeons. For that bit of luck, Pennell had himself to thank; just before the accident he had sharpened the ax that...
...odds against just any amateur's getting one are computed at 6,000 to 1. But the lightning can strike willy-nilly. Last year's initiates included an 84-year-old retired businessman from California (No. 8 iron, 110-yd. hole), a nine-year-old Little Leaguer from North Carolina (No. 3 iron, 157-yd. hole), and a Texas housewife who was eight months pregnant when she dubbed a No. 6-iron shot into the cup on a 125-yd. hole...