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...second time (the first was in 1954), outpolling Los Angeles Pitcher Sandy Koufax by 47 points in the balloting among baseball writers; at Boston. Mays batted .317, hit 52 homers and drove in 112 runs for the second-place San Francisco Giants. Koufax, who hurled the Dodgers to the pennant and victory in the World Series, had already won the Cy Young award as the major leagues' best pitcher; two sportswriters left him off their ballots entirely, apparently deciding that he had received enough recognition...
...Angeles Dodgers won it the same way they won the National League pennant-battling from behind scratching out hits, scrambling for runs' with the indifference of a team that had been through it all before. The Minnesota Twins lost it in the finest American League fashion-standing proudly at the plate, flexing their muscles, waiting for the big home run that never came...
...Angeles Dodgers, champions of the National League, had barely arrived in Bloomington when they started bragging about what they were going to do to the American League's Minnesota Twins in the World Series. "Three or four clubs in our league could have won the pennant over there," said Dodger General Manager Buzzie Bavasi. "I don't think the competition from the Twins will be any tougher than it was from the Yankees when we beat them four straight in 1963." Now that was too much-even for Minnesota's mildmannered manager, Sam Mele. "Cracks like that...
...Homers. They had reason to feel safe. The only way they could lose the pennant would be to wake up. The only man on the club who was batting as high as .290 was a pitcher, and the team's top slugger had hit only 12 home runs all year. (Not counting "Dodger homers," in which, as explained last week by Shortstop Maury Wills: "I get a base on balls, take second on a sacri fice, steal third, and come home on a fly ball.") But just the night before, the Dodgers had won their twelfth straight game...
...while, the way their pitchers were going, it looked as though the Dodgers would never lose a game. Then they did just that, 2-0, to Milwaukee.The Giants lost too, and next day Sandy Koufax clinched the pennant, beating the Braves 4-1 and getting his name in the record book still another time-by tying the modern National League record for victories in one season (26) by a lefthander. The Braves' lone run was actually an achievement of sorts: it was the first scored off Koufax in his last six victories. In 78 innings, Los Angeles pitchers...