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...would take a pretty good imagination just to dream up a scene of glory like that in San Francisco's Candlestick Park last week. As one, 30,000 fans leaped to their feet and screamed wildly as the ball disappeared into the right-field bleachers and the batter loped casually around the bases. One of the loudest cheers came from Stan Musial, vice president of the opposing St. Louis Cardinals. Not even Plate Umpire Chris Pelekoudas could stand aloof as the player rounded third and touched home; Pelekoudas reached out and warmly shook his hand. Willie Mays had just...
Pitcher Bob Turley served up a gopher ball to the Tigers' Harvey Kuenn. "It was right at the Yankee Stadium score-board," says Turley, now a pitching coach with the Boston Red Sox. "Hank couldn't quite catch up to the ball. But somehow, God only knows how, he got close enough to tip it with his bare hand -and flip it right into Mickey Mantle's glove. Hank crashed into the Scoreboard, bounced off and trotted back to right-field." Then there was the last game of the 1951 World Series, against the New York Giants...
...Braves 3-2, and were just one pitch away from victory. That pitch was a high hard one thrown by the Mets' Tracy Stallard to the Braves' Lee Maye, a professional rock 'n' roll singer. He hit it into County Stadium's right-field bleachers. "With any other ball team," sighed Met Alvin Jackson, "there might have been a chance that Maye would have flied out. But with us, the ball is gone as soon...
Regardless of fluctuations at the plate, Kaline has always been one of the greats in the field. In Boston's tough right-field earlier this year Kaline displayed for area fans a series of spectacular plays. The Irony of his injury on another fabulous catch is too obvious to be labored...
Shepard will juggle his own lineup a little for today's game. He will move Jim Shue into right-field in place of Mo Balboni, and may start George Harrington at shortstop...