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...last series the Milwaukee Braves would play in Brooklyn. Last year's pennant-winning Dodgers were lagging 6½ games behind, and the Braves were determined to plow them under. The plow was working. Big Henry Aaron, the Braves' heavy-wristed cleanup hitter, put the game away in the very first inning with a three-run homer to left. Second Baseman Red Schoendienst rapped another to right in the fifth. Rightfielder Bob Hazle, a remarkable rookie from Wichita, got three hits and boosted his four-week batting average back to an amazing .500. Meanwhile, Pitcher Lew Burdette...
Last-Day Losers. For Milwaukee it was none too soon. Their fans could forgive the Braves for finishing second in 1953. The team was just out of Boston then; it had not won a pennant since 1948, and all the experts still figured it for the second division. Even in 1954 third place was not too bad; Milwaukee still loved the Braves simply because they boosted the beer town into the big leagues. But in 1955 the Braves should have won the pennant; they folded in the stretch and finished 13½ games behind Brooklyn. Last year the love affair...
Freckle-Fisted Winner. So the Braves won. They hung on in the National League pennant scramble even after First Baseman Joe Adcock broke his leg, and Outfielder Bill Bruton and Shortstop Johnny Logan limped over to join him on the sidelines. Somehow Manager Fred Haney kept on fielding a team. (At one time his outfield consisted of Catcher Del Crandall, Utility First Baseman Nippy Jones and Bonus Baby John DeMerit.) And somehow the Braves kept winning, put together a ten-game winning streak that knocked the St. Louis Cardinals out of the lead and broke up the fight...
Veteran Braves like Hank Aaron (now leading the league with 37 home runs and 102 runs batted in) and Pitcher Warren Spahn have found their old winning form. And Manager Haney has found himself in possession of the one essential ingredient of managerial genius: a pennant-winning club. At week's end the fast-finishing schedule left the Braves a comfortable 7½ games ahead of their only competitors, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Brooklyn Dodgers...
...Even after they lost First Baseman Joe Adcock with a broken leg and Outfielder Bill Bruton with an injured kneecap, the Milwaukee Braves kept right on running -hanging on among the leaders of the tightest National League pennant race in years. Then they made a routine trade and picked up Veteran Second Baseman Red Schoendienst from the Giants. With the oldtimer (almost 13 years in the big leagues, most of them with the St. Louis Cardinals) chattering at second and telling them how, the Braves caught their second wind, sprinted down the August stretch with a ten-game winning streak...