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...Sport, where fans can be expected to know the score already, this week's stories isolate two great competitors: golf's Arnold Palmer, who has won more tournaments so far this season than anyone before him, and baseball's Stan Musial, who does not need the money, but is now breaking the biggest records after 21 years with the St. Louis Cardinals. Both men, incidentally, are old TIME cover characters revisited...
...runway, bound for St. Louis, the atmosphere inside was glum enough: the staggering Cardinals had just dropped a doubleheader to the Pittsburgh Pirates. It quickly got worse. Just 30 seconds after takeoff, a portside engine conked out, and Cardinal ballplayers stared tensely at the feathered prop. Only Stan Musial seemed unruffled. Grinning from ear to ear, he turned to a teammate: "I can see the headline now. CARDINAL PLANE CRASHES -MUSIAL LONE SURVIVOR...
Steady though they may be, the Pirates can hardly hope to keep pace with the Cards, who should lead until the end of August when Stan Musial wilts in the heat. With speed at short and second (Julio Gotay and Julio Javier), and power at first and third (Bill White and Ken Boyer), the Card infield is well anchored. The outfield of Musial, Curt Flood and the recently acquired Minnie Minoso should hit a collective .300. Good front line pitching from Ernie Broglio, Lindy MacDaniel and Larry Jackson is indispensable, however...
...either league. But fielding was as slick as ever. Milwaukee led all National League teams, New York topped the American League, and only five of the 18 big-league clubs were butter-fingered enough to commit an average of one error a game. The individual stars: Cardinal Veteran Stan Musial, better known for his hitting, set a record by becoming the National League's best-fielding outfielder for the third time; Red Sox Rookie Chuck Schilling booted only eight balls all season, set an American League mark for second basemen...
Detroit and Cleveland, fighting for first place in the American League, clubbed nine between them in one game; Detroit, out-homered 5-4, won anyway, 15-7. The St. Louis Cardinals' Stan Musial walloped two against San Francisco to give him a lifetime total of 1,292 extra-base hits, within swatting distance of Babe Ruth's 1,356. Team of the week: the Milwaukee Braves, with 15 home runs. Man of the week: New York Yankee Outfielder Roger Maris, who hit four to raise his season's total to 27 and put him twelve games ahead...