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...where he began his baseball career as a grammar-school nine-year-old. One day in 1958, while he was playing third base for the Brentwood Cardinals, a suburban St. Louis amateur team, the starting pitcher broke his leg, and the manager sent twelve-year-old Mike to the mound. Jones walked the first batter, struck out the next 18, won the game-and became the team's No. I pitcher. Over the next three seasons, he ran up such an impressive record that he attracted major-league scouts, among them a scout from the St. Louis Cardinals...
...record. To steady his young pitchers, Hutchinson relied on 31-year-old Bob Purkey, whose assortment of knucklers and sinkers earned him an 11-4 record. In the bullpen, he called on Bill Henry and bespectacled Writer Jim (The Long Season) Brosnan, who also uses brains on the mound, to save a total of 19 games...
...turned the contest in San Francisco's Candlestick Park into a Little League affair-there were a record seven errors, a passed ball and a balk-and went ahead 4-3 in the tenth on an unearned run. But when Baltimore's Hoyt Wilhelm went to the mound, four Negro batsmen pushed across two runs to win the game before anybody was out. Milwaukee's Hank Aaron lashed a pinch single to center. Mays doubled him home. After Wil helm hit Cincinnati's Frank Robinson with a pitch. Clemente lined a sharp single to right...
Eyes fixed on the ground and thick arms hanging limp at his sides, he stepped from the mound and shuffled toward the shadowed dugout, looking for all the world like a dejected pitcher who had just been shelled out of a crucial game. Only when his teammates swarmed about to pat his back and the Independence Day crowd of 74,246 at Yankee Stadium* cut loose with a tumultuous roar did a faint grin flicker across the lips of Edward ("Whitey") Ford, the New York Yankees' crafty southpaw pitcher. Whitey Ford had just won his ninth straight game...
...power hitter at the plate. "The main thing," says Pitcher Elston, "is temperament. A starting pitcher can make mistakes and get away with them. If I make a mistake, it's the ball game." Though his tactics are complex. Elston's strategy is simple. Called to the mound with men on base and nobody out, Elston tries desperately to strike out the first batter. "You can't be afraid." he says, "to throw a strike in an important situation-to a guy you know can hit the ball out of the park." With one out. Elston deliberately...