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...race for a line in baseball's record book was the tight fight for the National League batting title-and it went right down to the wire. Coming up to the plate on the last day of the season, the league-leading Giants' Willie Mays and Don Mueller and the Dodgers' Duke Snider were only a few hundredths of a percentage point apart...
...plate, he started belting out base hits steadily. His current average: .331. "Here it is August," says Second Baseman Schoendienst, "and I think I have a shot at the batting championship, but I wouldn't be surprised if Moon beats out all of us-Duke Snider and Don Mueller included...
Willie's personal bonfire soon ignited all the Giants. The pitchers began throwing like winners, and Outfielder Don Mueller pieced out a 19-game hitting streak. The infield tightened into one of the best in the league. It was perilously late in the season-the Giants were 13½ out of the lead on Aug. 11. But in a wild and breathless finish, they tied the Dodgers on the last day of the season, beat them in the playoff for the pennant, with Bobby Thomson's last-ditch "Home Run Heard 'Round the World." When they lost...
...Mueller had been head of the Bacteriology department of the Medical School since his appointment...
Before being appointed an assistant professor of Bacteriology, Mueller taught at the University of Louisville and Columbia University...