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...Hutton scores 364 runs against Australia at the Oval Test Match (Aug.)." It would have only been cricket to add a separate-but-equal note reading: "Gabby Hartnett hits home run in the last of the ninth to give Chicago Cubs chance to win National League pennant (Sept...
Seeing was the only way to believe what was going on in the National League last week. Who would have figured that the Pittsburgh Pirates and the San Francisco Giants, the two teams most experts figure to fight it out for the pennant, would rank No. 7 and No. 10? That Pittsburgh's Matty Alou, who led the National League in batting last year with a .342 average, would be hitting .217? That San Francisco Pitcher Juan Marichal, winner of 93 games over the past four seasons, would be sporting an 0-3 record and an earned-run average...
This year's American League raises the obstacles for rationally predicting a pennant finish to an annual high. Every team in the junior, and perenially weaker, loop, has so many holes to fill that of the five teams equally justified to finish second, none should be able to win. That is why the overwhelming consensus leans toward Baltimore: the Orioles won last year, so memory over-rides the rebellion of reason at the thought of their triumphing...
...where do you look to find a successor? One theory is that pennants are won by the men up the middle. But Cleveland's Joe Azcue is the league's only catcher to hit above .256 last year and major league catching has been universally weak since the glory days of Yogi Berra, Roy Campanella, Wes Westrum, and Del Crandall. Around the Keystone, the league's best combinations belong to California (Fregosi-Knoop) and Kansas City (Campaneris-Green). How many people could match Gil, Oyler, Johnson, Carew, and Adair with the pennant contender for which each is starting second baseman...
...anybody's going to beat Pittsburgh, it's St. Louis. The Cards own the Pirates in face-to-face meetings and need only a good season from Ray Washburn or Al Jackson to back up Bob Gibson in a pennant run. The Dodgers are mortal without Koufax and will start three or four players you've never heard of. Cincinnati, to be a challenger, needs a good season from too many people who had their last good season two or three years...