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...already a squat relic of more series (seven) than any other player on either team. There was also a durable outfielder of 40 summers named Enos Bradsher Slaughter. Back in mid-August, old Case Stengel had squinted into the future and decided that once his Yanks won the pennant they would need someone like "Country" Slaughter-a tough customer who plays every ball game for blood. So Country, who had grown up on the gashouse tactics of the old St. Louis Cardinals before drifting to the Yanks and then the Kansas City Athletics, was back with New York...
...major cities last week-Brooklyn and Milwaukee-the season reached a roaring climax as the Dodgers and Braves fought it out for the National League pennant (see SPORT). Such was the objection of Ebbets Field to Umpire Vic Delmore when he made a bad call on Catcher Campanella at second base that there came a revelation, to hear the New York Herald Tribune's Columnist Red Smith tell it, "that at least 34,022 people in Brooklyn have white handkerchiefs, a fact previously unsuspected." Such was the absorption of Milwaukee in the Braves that the arrival there of Campaigner...
Next day, they stumbled momentarily as Robin Roberts beat Don Newcombe 7-3. For a day, the Braves thought the pennant was in the bag. But the Braves seemed like men under a curse. Their three last games were with St. Louis. They fumbled away the first game 5-4. Next day, with the score tied at 1-1, Third Baseman Eddie Mathews let a bounding ball squirt away from him in the twelfth inning, and with it the game...
...Dodgers made no more major mistakes. In a doubleheader with the Pirates, Maglie won the first game 6-2. The Dodgers won the second 3-1, then tucked away the pennant by beating the Pirates next day, "86, behind Big Newk. They did it with authority. Snider and Amoros homered twice, Robinson once. After that, it scarcely mattered that the forlorn Braves took their last game from St. Louis...
...aftermath of the lopsided American League pennant race, Managers Al Lopez, 48, of the Cleveland Indians, and Bucky Harris, 59, of the Detroit Tigers, submitted their resignations. Said Lopez, who managed the Indians to one pennant and five second-place finishes in six years: "There's a feeling that we should have finished higher. The tension has been terrific." (This was the understatement of the week.) Harris brought his team in fifth both last year and this year. He figured he could never be the "fiery, aggressive manager" demanded by the syndicate that bought the club in midsummer...