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...ground out on an inside fast ball to end the inning. When he finished his two-hit victory last week (final score: 2-0), the Oklahoma kid was the talk of the National League and the upstart St. Louis Cardinals were in first place in the wildest early-season pennant scramble in years...
...their one-month drive from fifth place to the top of the league. Von and Lindy are the only pair of brothers pitching for any major-league team, and the first pair of pitching brothers to wear Cardinal uniforms since the Dean boys-Dizzy and Paul-brought home a pennant in the glory days...
...Tight pennant races and a hot summer combined last week to set big-league tempers on edge. Pitchers reached oftener for the beanball, battered batters responded with expected anger...
...Dropo and Doby. (All four, plus Ditmar, later drew fines from League President Will Harridge.) The rest of the battlers dusted themselves off and readjusted blood pressures and the Yankees went on to win. 4-3. But they were still four games behind the Sox. wobbling sulkily in a pennant race they were supposed to have won in a walk...
...mere five minutes. Out of the game went Logan and Drysdale. For his belligerence Logan drew a $100 fine; despite his beanball Drysdale was nicked for only $40. But the final score, Braves 8, Dodgers 5, was a far more important statistic. It left last year's pennant-winning Dodgers in fourth place, one game behind the league-leading Braves, and a half game back of both the heavy-hitting Cincinnati Redlegs and the surprisingly potent Philadelphia Phillies...