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Last year's spectacle, in the era of the bunny ball, was dour Roger Maris grimly slugging 61 home runs over assorted fences to break Babe Ruth's 34-year-old record. The day seemed not far off when bleacher fans would wear the gloves and ballplayers would...
How Blase. To the imperious New York Yankees the only difference between their two potential series opponents was the 25,000-seat cushion of the Dodgers' Chavez Ravine over the Giants' Candlestick Park. Celebrating their own pennant, the 27th in 41 years, the Yanks were the image of...
THE OUTFIELD--The Yankees are superior up front but in baseball it is not necessarily what's up front that counts. Not when the Giants have Felipe Alou, Harvey Kuenn, and Willie Mays on the outfield grass. Despite his tendency to hit home runs now and then, (and this year...
The Red Sox pay him a fat $40,000, but Pete does not share in royalties from TV commercials and product endorsements that bring in as much as $100,000 a year to such sluggers as Roger Maris. Runnells did a few Camel cigarette commercials in 1960 and 1961, but...
With no particular talent for winning, the Yankees still won, simply because they had no talent for losing. Hobbled for a month with a painful leg injury, Mantle returned to the lineup, limping badly, and hit seven homers in five games. Inspired by Mantle's return, Maris clouted nine...