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Yankee Dolor. In part, the new life in the American League can be laid to New York's Yankees, for this is the year the Yankees seem certain to lose the pennant. With the Yanks floundering, the new hit-less-wonder White Sox and the rebuilt Indians are playing like champions, and up and down the league the old also-rans are hustling with new life. Similarly, the National League's vigor can be traced in part to the troubles of the Milwaukee Braves, the league's soundest team at season's start, whose attack...
...pennant form alone cannot account for baseball's new life. This is the year that fans scanning box scores and studying statistics are suddenly realizing that grand old names are nearly all gone, have gradually been replaced by a whole set of new faces. This is the year Ted Williams (.239) is 40, and seems ready to quit. This is the year Stan Musial (.260) is 38, and riding the bench. A new generation of stars is coming of age. Significantly...
...which responded to the arrival of major-league baseball in the form of the Giants and the Dodgers with an enthusiasm all out of proportion to the teams' records, has been rewarded beyond any fan's wildest hopes-this year they have not just one, but two pennant contenders. The Giants, who went to San Francisco a disheveled team of weary veterans and untried rookies, have settled down into a hustling ball club that last week led the Braves by three games and the Dodgers by 2½. The Giants have solid pitching anchored by Sad Sam Jones...
...handed Gil Hodges had hit 19 homers and driven in 62 runs when he was forced out of the line-up last month with a wrenched ankle. But Hodges is expected back in time to help the Dodgers as the three-way pennant fight swirls to a finish...
...fizzle was Manager Joe Gordon, the old Yankee second baseman, who had helped Cleveland win the world championship in 1948. Gordon has his high-spirited Indians playing a confident, aggressive brand of ball that is packing the fans into Cleveland Stadium* after years of declining attendance since the 1954 pennant. Backed by a long-ball attack, this whirlwind play has so far made up for mediocre pitching. (FastBaller Herb Score has never recovered his coordination since being hit in the eye with a batted ball in 1957, has a 9-10 record.) "I just turn them loose on the field...