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Starting with the National League, the light bulb gazer is faced with the Giants, Dodgers, and Braves--all powerful ball clubs with a number of well-established stars and a few shoddy spots that the stars are expected to conceal. Each could easily win the pennant, but somehow the Old...
Brooklyn, Milwaukee, and New York, meanwhile, should finish second, third, and fourth in that order. The Dodgers will suffer from uncertain pitching and again infielders, the Braves from a lack of catchers to support Crandall and pitchers to supplement Spahn and Conley, and the Giants from Mays' human inability to...
Biographies in Sound (Sun. 7 p.m., NBC). Tribute to Leo Durocher, with Laraine Day, Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Willie Mays, Branch Rickey.
Even the kids on the sandlots remember when baseball was a summer sport. After six months of shagging flies, a ballplayer is entitled to relax. But last fall, when the N.Y. Giants' spectacular center fielder, Willie Mays, asked for permission to play winter ball in Puerto Rico, the Giants...
¶ As the National League's Most Valuable Player of 1954, baseball writers picked Willie Mays, the World Champion New York Giants' sensational centerfielder. Earlier the American League M.V.P. title went to the second-place Yankees' catcher, Lawrence ("Yogi") Berra.