Word: mccovey
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...this kind of play that makes baseball the game it is, love it or leave it. The fabulous "if only's which pepper baseball lore have seen another swell their ranks. Aparicio's trip will go down with Richardson's catch of McCovey's drive in 1962, with Ralph Terry's Meatball to Mazeroski in 1960, even with the Bobby Thompson shot heard round the world...
...could manage was nine singles and twelve strikeouts. The first extra-base hit did not come until the eighth inning, when the Orioles' Brooks Robinson tripled and the American Leaguers took a 4-to-1 lead. The National Leaguers, powered by the Giants' Dick Dietz and Willie McCovey, finally woke up in the ninth to tie the score and send the game into extra innings. The spectators who remained, including Richard Nixon, were rewarded with a rare slam-bang finish...
...Offs. Out of personal pride if nothing else, such stars as McCovey and Dietz turned out for the game despite their very real injuries. Nonetheless, as Yankee Manager Ralph Houk explains...
...ultimately tagged with the loss. Washington's Frank Howard sent a towering drive over the centerfield fence in the American League's half of the inning. Then the Nationals sent nine men to the plate and scored five runs as San Francisco's Willie McCovey belted the first of two home runs. Even St. Louis Pitcher Steve Carlton, the game's eventual winner, lashed a run-producing double. Detroit's Bill Freehan came back with a homer, but that still left the Americans on the short end of an 8-2 score...
American League Manager Mayo Smith of Detroit then rushed in the ace of his own mound staff, Denny McLain. The Tiger righthander had flown home in his personal Lear jet to have his deteriorating teeth examined, returned just in time to dress and warm up for the fourth inning. McCovey greeted McLain by rapping his third pitch over the rightfield fence for the fifth home run of the game...