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Another club bound to fall is Milwaukee. New skipper Bobby Bragan inherits aging pitchers; Eddie Mathews, who hit a mere .265 last year; and the consistently strong Hank Aaron who will be flanked in the outfield by anybody who isn't in a slump at the time. If the Braves sink far enough, the Chicago Cubs will surge all the way to seventh. Ernie Banks holds down a solid infield, rookie Nelson Mathews should help fill in for George Altman, and the acquisition of Larry Jackson and Lindy McDaniel will add luster to the staff...
...Phillies, too, should be counted on to improve. Blessed with an outfield of .300 hitters, Tony Gonzales, Johnny Callison and Don Demeter, an infield that suddenly includes Don Hoak, the Phils now have pitching, too: Art Mahaffey, Chris Short, Dennis Bennett, Dallas Green, bullpen ace, Jack Baldschun, and veteran Cal McLish...
Owner O'Malley is still too proud to fire Walter Alston. Compounding the confusion at Chavez Ravine is the presence of ex-manager Leo Durocher and future-manager Pete Reiser. So much for management; on the labor side there are not enough outfield jobs to keep Tom Davis, Willie Davis, Frank Howard, Ron Fairly, Wally Moon, Duke Snider (enjoying another fine spring) and Lee Walls working happily. The unemployment problem is embodied in the case of Moon, a real star who appeared in only 95 games last year, could not hit stride, and wound up with a .242 mark...
...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...
...place. Losing eight of eleven games, his teammates frittered away a four-game lead to turn the National League race into a stumbling contest with the San Francisco Giants. Helpfully, the Giants lost ten out of 16, even though they were working with a healthier pitching staff and an outfield automatically rendered spectacular by the mere presence of Willie Mays (46 home runs, 136 runs batted...