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...join the New York Giants, professional football team. ¶Statisticians wound up the baseball season with some final calculations. Milwaukee Lefthander Warren Spahn (23-7) led all major-league pitchers in effectiveness with an earned run average of 2.10 for every nine innings pitched. Runner-up: Yankee Lefthander Ed Lopat (16-4), with a 2.43 mark. Slugging leaders (determined by dividing total bases on hits by times at bat): Brooklyn Outfielder Duke Snider, .6271, Milwaukee Third Baseman Ed Mathews, .6269. In third place was Cleveland Third Baseman Al Rosen (.613), the American League's home-run leader...
Second Game. What started as a southpaw pitching duel between Brooklyn's Preacher Roe and the Yankee's Eddie Lopat blew up in a Yankee victory in the eighth, when Mickey Mantle slammed a two-run homer to break a 2-2 tie. The Dodgers outhit the Yanks nine hits to five, but then left ten men stranded on the bases. Score: Yankees, 4; Dodgers...
Mantle's blast broken open a brilliant pitching battle between lefthanders Eddie Lopat of the Yanks and Preacher...
...Yankees have made the same kind of runaway; this week, by beating second-place Cleveland two in a row, they clinched the pennant with a 13-game lead. Manager Casey Stengel has a cool, battle-hardened pitching staff to throw at the Dodgers: Whitey Ford (17-5), Eddie Lopat (15-3), Vic Raschi (12-5), onetime National Leaguer Johnny Sain (14-6). Backing them up is the greatest money pitcher in either league: Allie Reynolds, who at 34 can still pitch his way out of a tight spot with three blistering fast balls. Though Yankee hitters are less fearsome than...
Team: New York (by 11½ games) Pitcher: Lopat, New York (8-0) Batter: Vernon, Washington (.333) Runs Batted In: Mantle, New York (51) Home Runs: Zernial, Phila...