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...skillfully planned trades, dating back to the beginning of the 1960 season, that brought First Baseman Norm Cash, Leftfielder Rocky Colavito, Centerfielder Billy Bruton, and Catcher Dick Brown to Detroit. Playing regularly for the first time this year, Cash is batting .333, has five home runs and 29 RBIs. Temperamental, Bronx-born Rocky Colavito, who was appalled at being traded and suffered through a miserable 1960 season, is now happy with Detroit ("I like the town, and then some"). Slugger Colavito, starting fast, already has nine home runs, 27 RBIs, and his own fan club of teen-age-girl bleacherites...
MICKEY MANTLE was off to his best spring since 1956-when he led the American League in batting, home runs and RBIs. He ran up a 16-game hitting streak, was batting a lusty .329, and his nine home runs and 24 RBIs topped both leagues. He had personally accounted for seven of the Yankees' thirteen victories. Against the Detroit Tigers, Mantle hit a lefthanded homer to tie the score in the eighth inning; he hit a righthanded homer to win the game in the tenth. Against Cleveland, he drove in the winning run with a seventh-inning triple...
...Baltimore Orioles' Infielder Billy Goodman, Pitcher Ray Moore and Outfielder Tito Francona. Then the Sox sent Outfielder Minnie Minoso and Third Baseman Fred Hatfield to Cleveland in return for aging Pitcher Early Wynn and Utility Man Al Smith. In two brisk moves they shuffled off 182 RBIs (Doby, 79; Minoso, 103) and picked up only 87 (Smith, 49; Francona, 38), but they did get a good pitcher in the bargain...
...close to so many other marks that before they hang a plaque with his name on it in the Hall of Fame, The Man will surely stand no less than third in the league in all eight offensive departments: runs scored, hits, doubles, triples, home runs, RBIs, total bases and extra-base hits. For all his recent lapse, he has never been a slouch on defense...