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...York Yankees-among ball clubs the royalty and far-out winners of the 1958 American League pennant-faced up scornfully one afternoon last week to aging (35) Hoyt Wilhelm, knuckleball pitcher for the seventh-place Baltimore Orioles and long since cast off by the Giants, -Cardinals and Indians. Wilhelm, who had won only two games all season, thereupon pitched to just 28 batters and shut out the Yanks in a 1-o no-hitter...
Long overdue, the world champion Milwaukee Braves were finally on the way to nailing down the National League pennant. But the leaders in Milwaukee's pennant push were not only the big names that carried the Braves to the top last year. Added this year were four strong-armed young pitchers who were major-league unknowns when the season started. Last week Milwaukee's four lads were in fine form as the Braves won seven of nine, moved seven games in front of the pesky Pittsburgh Pirates. 7½ ahead of the sagging San Francisco Giants...
...also added three points-after-touchdown. ¶ Two seasons ago Manager-of-the-Year Birdie Tebbetts led the power-packed but pitching-poor Cincinnati Redlegs out of the National League's second division for the first time in twelve years and finished third, just two games behind the pennant-winning Dodgers. Tebbetts was not satis- fied, traded in search of pennant-class pitching. But the Redlegs skidded to last place this season. Birdie, who once said, "A manager should never quit," decided last week to resign, became the fourth major-league manager to bow out this year (the others...
...Yankees trailed Detroit 5-4 in the seventh inning one day last week, and to hold the Tigers in check until his pennant-bound New Yorkers could score some more runs, Manager Casey Stengel knew just the man he needed. In from the Briggs Stadium bullpen strode Rinold George Duren. the 29-year-old righthander who is baseball's hottest relief pitcher...
...Likable, low-pressure Mayo Smith was rudely fired after more than three years of indifferent success as manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, was replaced by onetime (1948-52) Phils' Manager Eddie Sawyer, last man to lead the team to a pennant...