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¶ For the third time in his eight-year major-league career as a Brooklyn Dodger, Catcher Roy Campanella was elected Most Valuable Player in the National League. (Campy's other awards were in 1951 and '53.) Only other three-time winner in the National League: the St...
Mays Landing, NJ.
Among them: baseball's Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle, golf's Ben Hogan, Decathlon Champion Bob Mathias. But never has the myth been so effectively-and quickly-exploded as by Campy's game-winning homer.
But while they talked like bickering schoolboys, the Dodgers played like pros from the first game. Even as they finally lost one last week, they were so hot that the Giants who beat them (5-4) needed a couple of Willie Mays's classiest catches and a couple of...
The game was over anyway. Willie Mays's fine shoestring catch, which made it official, was something of an anticlimax. The Dodgers, with the problem of stretching their winning streak finally behind them, could settle down for the long season's scramble for the pennant.