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Downstairs & Upstairs. Starting the second half of the season, Washington led the majors in home runs (107), had a good chance of breaking the American League record of 190 set by the Yankees in 1956, and, with luck, might even top the majors' record of 221 set by the...
> Third Baseman Harmon ("The Killer") Killebrew, 22 (TIME, May 25), the sturdy (6 ft., 195 Ibs.) youngster from Idaho with the massive shoulders who does not make the new boy's mistake of guessing at pitches. He is "Mr. Upstairs" for the towering drives that put him first in...
The richest plum among the oil industry's independents finally fell last week, and it went to one of the strongest integrated majors. In an $810 million deal, Texaco, No. 2 U.S. producer-No. 1: Standard Oil Co. (N.J.)-and refiner, bought California's profitable Superior Oil Co...
End of a Fight. For old Bill Keck, it was the end of a long fight to stay independent in an age of integration and merger. A California wildcatter who first struck it rich in 1922, he steadfastly refused to go into refining and marketing, or merge with anyone who...
I realized when I was pitching high school ball, says James Hoyt Wilhelm, "that I wasn't fast enough to get by. I had read about Dutch Leonard and the kind of junk he was throwing for the Senators, and I set out to see if I couldn'...