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...curve snapped wickedly off the corners of the plate, his fast ball boomed into the catcher's mitt, and his sneaky change-up gave the batters fits. For six innings he had a no-hitter. Then Philadelphia First Baseman Marv Blaylock blooped a single. Catcher Stan Lopata backed it up with a home run. But the Dodgers ran it out, 5-2, and Big Newk had the best record in the majors (18-5). He had run up 39⅔ scoreless innings (6⅔ behind Giant Carl Hubbell's National League record), was riding a nine-game winning...
Last year, in fact, from the All-Star game to Labor Day, the Phillies were perhaps the best in the National League. Then Third Baseman Willie ("Puddin-head") Jones was hurt, First Baseman Stan Lopata was beaned, and the team faltered. "You look back on a season," says Roberts, "and you see two or three games, here and there, that if you'd won might have made the difference...
Those named to the first Ivy team included: Ends, Stanley Intihar (Cornell) and Paul Lopata (Yale); Tackles, James McGuinness (Brown) and Orville Tice (Harvard); Guards, Fred Bucci (Columbia) and William Meigs (Harvard); Center, John Owseichik (Yale); Backs, Claude Benham (Columbia) William DeGraaf (Cornell), Dennis McGill (Yale), and Richard Martin (Princeton...
...ends, Oliver will start with Roger Hanson, a 195-pound senior from Beliville, N.J., and substitute Byron Campbell, a 6-2 senior from Winnetka, III. Paul Lopata and Vorn Loucks, Olivar's excellent sophomores, are both injured, but may see action...
...contrast, the Yale coach claims "an injury list a mile long" and denies vehemently that he is crying or exaggerating. At any rate, if Jim Armstrong, Conrad Corelli, and Steve Ackerman, dress, or if Vern Loucks, Mike Owseichik, Tom Henderson, and Paul Lopata see more than limited action, there will be 40,000 witnesses to the perjury of the Yale University Athletic Association...