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In Kansas City and Chicago, massive scoreboards lit up like Christmas trees when the home team homered; cannons roared and rockets seared the summer sky. In Boston. American League Batting Champion Pete Runnels, a singles hitter, rode the bench while Manager Mike Higgins struggled to get more power into the...
Baseball's highest-priced performer (1960 take: $85,000 from the San Francisco Giants, some $23,000 from shaving in public), Willie Mays, 30, was crying all the way to the bank. Already into the Giants for $65,200 in salary advances and $8,641 in hock to the...
The first National League run came on a triple by Pittsburgh's Roberto Clemente and a sacrifice fly by Bill White of St. Louis, the second on Clemente's sacrifice fly (scoring San Francisco's Willie Mays), the third on a pinch home run by Chicago'...
Major League hidebusters were still belting homers at a prodigious rate. Last week Yankee Mickey Mantle blasted a 450-ft. inside-the-park four-bagger off Yankee Stadium's centerfield wall. Teammate Roger Maris, whose 28 home runs have turned his right ear into a more tempting target than...
WILLIE MAYS, the cheerful, carefree rookie of 1951, now a hardened, introspective veteran of 30, had something to worry about. He had failed to get a hit in eight straight times at bat; his average had dropped to .290. When Warren Spahn, on the way to his no-hitter, carelessly...