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...Angeles Dodgers stumbled through their first home stand last week, Smith's amiable hyperbole was borne out by the remorseless arithmetic of the score card. The looming left-field screen that was supposed to turn Memorial Coliseum into a big-league ballpark (TIME, April 28) had become the biggest boon to batters since the rabbit ball. At the end of eight home games, 26 homers had got lost on the far side of the screen only 250 ft. away...
...Series, a Yankee hit a ball into the left-field bleachers. It was foul by one foot. A home run would have won the Series, but Grover Cleveland Alexander went on to strike out Tony Lazzeri and become "the courageous old man" who fought off a hangover to save the Series for the Cardinals...
...Campanella, whose impish, pudgy pan grins at you from the cover of a current magazine noted for its jinxing powers, today hammered the hex into the left-field bleachers with two down and two on in the ninth to give the Brooks an 11-10 tingler...
Time was when baseball was a summer sport, played by young men who could wiggle a finger at the left-field stands without getting a banner line in someone's second section. Those were the good old days. Since then Abner Doubleday's pleasant pastime has been attenuated into an eight-months monster, devouring two-thirds of the year and thousands of tons of newsprint, bleating out paragraphs about the weight of Dick Wakefield's spikes and the quality of the umpiring in the Sally League...
...winning run, was due to bat. With a gesture that Durocher would have disdained a year ago, he patted Thomson on the back. "Boy," said Leo in fervent, fatherly tones, "if you ever hit one, hit one now." Thomson did, high, wide & handsome. His home run, plunk into the left-field stands, won the game and the pennant...