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...halfway efforts. This year, with a team that might well have run away from the league, his frustrations have boiled over. He has clashed openly with several players-particularly Puerto Rican First Baseman Orlando Cepeda, who runs the bases as if he were treading molasses, and Negro Leftfielder Willie McCovey, who is hitting barely over .200 when Dark figures he should be batting...
...press reports, said Stoneham, were "exaggerated and distorted"; he denied all thought that a "managerial change is contemplated." Nevertheless, Dark has a Giant-sized problem-how to keep some of his best players from thinking that he regards them as inferiors. "It is hard to put out," said Willie McCovey, "if you think he feels that way about...
Still, the Nationals have Stan Musial and Duke Snider, and both have shown a relish for All Star kudos. Orlando Cepeda and Willie McCovey can also deliver, although not always in tough places...
...real struggle for the pennant will involve the defending Giants' and the St. Louis Cardinals. The Giants' over-whelming offense was intelligently manipulated last year as A1 Dark worked Willie McCovey and Matty Alou into the outfield behind Felipe Alou, Harvy Kuenn, and Willie Mays. But Dark may have a tough job keeping things from clogging when Carl Boles, a talented rookie, challenges for a post...
...Yankees 1, Giants 0. As 43,948 spectators and 20 million TV fans hold their breaths, the Giants' Matty Alou dances boldly down the third-base line. Willie Mays grabs a handful of dirt and edges away from second. Yankee Pitcher Ralph Terry peers nervously at Batter Willie McCovey. A single means the ball game. Terry throws, McCovey swings. Crack! Second Baseman Bobby Richardson flings out his glove. Plunk. Joy, sorrow, delirium, despair-and cut to razor-blade commercial. For the 20th time in 27 tries, the New York Yankees are the world champions of baseball, richer by something...