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Nikita Khrushchev, who has proved he is the man of a new era by sending the Communist pennant right to the inaccessible moon...
...Freshman touch football, Chuck Mercer and Gavin Gilmore paced Grays Hall American League champs to first place over the National and Continental League pennant winners...
...Scrappy, chaw-jawed Second Baseman Nellie Fox, 31, whose slick fielding (.988) and slap-hitting (.306; two home runs, 149 singles) led the Chicago White Sox to their first pennant in 40 years, won the American League's most-valuable-player award of the Baseball Writers' Association. The National League's MVP: Slugging Shortstop Ernie Banks, 28, of the fifth-place Chicago Cubs, who led the majors in runs batted in (143), finished second in the majors in home runs (45), set a league fielding record for shortstops (.985), became the first player ever...
...throw a slider, this summer finally conquered his control. Even so, Sherry had an unimposing 6-7 record at St. Paul in July when the Dodgers took a chance by bringing him up. But Rookie Sherry developed confidence under the pressure of the Dodgers' hard drive for the pennant, compiled a 7-2 record in the National League. "When I come in from the bullpen," he said, "nothing bothers...
...famed speed on the base paths, and man for man the Dodgers were actually faster than the go-go Sox. One apparent Chicago asset: their pitching staff was well rested, while the Dodgers' was still giddy-eyed and weary-armed after the frantic, final dash to the pennant...