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...Angeles Dodgers led both leagues with 83, thanks largely to the 251-ft. leftfield fence in their home park, where Wally Moon has already hit 14 homers...
...pitcher over a high-cocked elbow. When he unwinds, his swing is level and lightning-quick. His reflexes are so fast that even bad balls become good targets. In his first time at bat in a major league game, Boston Rookie Carl Yastrzemski sliced an outside fast ball into leftfield for a single. Next game against the Los Angeles Angels, he drove in two runs, hit a single and a booming 374-ft. triple. Said battered Angel Pitcher Jerry Casale: "He hit the single off a pitch right in on his fists. The triple came off a high fast ball...
With Trade and Commerce Minister George Hees's brisk assurance to the Cubans that Canada "couldn't do business with better businessmen anywhere" still ringing in their ears, Canadian businessmen last week were playing host to two more trade missions out of far leftfield...
...very first game. With a season batting average of .273, Pirate Second Baseman Bill Mazeroski, 24, had been ignominiously relegated to the eighth spot in the batting order, the slot reserved for the pattyball hitters. So with one man on, Mazeroski pulled a ball over the ivy-covered leftfield brick wall in Forbes Field, and the Pirates were on their way to their first 6-4 victory...
...bases when the unlikeliest slugger of them all stepped into the box, looking fully as dangerous as any promising Little Leaguer. Second Baseman Bobby Richardson got every bit of his 5-ft. 9-in., 166-lb. frame behind his swing and hit a grand-slam home run into the leftfield seats. For Richardson, the home run was only the fourth of his four-year major league career. Later, with a single to left, Richardson drove in two more runs for a day's total of six-and a World Series record. Mantle drove a 425-ft. home run alongside...