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Eddie Stanky's boys are probably the fastest, and certainly the scrappiest, team in the league. They are also the best-hitting squad in the majors, and their young outfield is so good that Stan Musial is currently playing first base. The team's pitching is slightly weak, but Haddix, Lawrence, Raschi, and Frank Smith should provide enough backbone. It will be close, but the Cards...
Like inveterate gamblers, St. Louis ball fans keep coming back to Busch Stadium even though they are losing. The Cardinals are the only team in town, and the muggy Midwestern summer is never so dismal that it cannot be brightened by the sight of Stan Musial at the plate or the pleasure of second-guessing hard-luck Manager Eddie Stanky. For a few weeks this spring, the bleacher jockeys even got a kick out of razzing Rookie Wally Moon in the outfield. "Where's Enos?" they would yell. Did that lanky, crew-cut college boy really think he could...
...Petersburg, Fla., fresh from a winter of baseball in Maracaibo, Venezuela, his batting eye sharp. Manager Stanky was so impressed that he never thought of sending Wally back to the minors. But taking Slaughter's place was a tough spot. Wally kept badgering old hands like Musial and Schoendienst for advice. In the field, he made few mistakes. At the 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...
Team: New York (by four games) Pitcher: Wilson, Milwaukee (7-0) Batter: Snider, Brooklyn (.353) Runs Batted In: Musial...
...Some 60,-ooo turned out for the biggest series of sports-car races (178 entries) ever held in the U.S. Winner Spear's reward: a two-foot silver bowl, presented to him in person by President Eisenhower. ¶In St. Louis, the Cardinals' Rightfielder Stan ("The Man") Musial had himself quite a day at the plate in the course of a doubleheader with the New York Giants: five walloping home runs, a major-league record. ¶The World Champion New York Yankees, currently stumbling around in the second division of the American League, got an Army reinforcement. Lieut...