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...superb cover story on Juan Marichal [June 10]. Bat-swinging incidents and beanballs are unpleasant but real phenomena of baseball. Any one incident, such as the Marichal-Roseboro affair, will not live long in anyone's memory. The memory that will linger is that at one time Juan Marichal was indeed "the best right arm in baseball...
Marichal later claimed that the ball had ticked his ear. He spun around, bat in hand. "Why you do that? Why you do that?" he screamed. Roseboro did not answer. He charged at Marichal, and in front of 42,807 witnesses at Candlestick Park, Juan clubbed him three times on the head with the bat, sending blood streaming down the catcher's face from a deep wound in his scalp...
Marichal was fined $1,750 by National League President Warren Giles and suspended for eight days; Roseboro was not punished. Neither Juan nor the Giants ever regained their form: 19-9 before the fracas, Marichal ended the season with 22 wins, 13 losses. The Giants blew the pennant to the Dodgers, wound up two games behind. And the incident is still not closed; Roseboro is suing Marichal...
...Marichal in a blazing fury is hard to conceive. "I don't understand it at all," says his shy, slender wife Alma Rosa, 21, who has known Juan since she was twelve, married him at 16. "Juan is never angry-even when he gets up in the morning." Roseboro's own roommate, Dodger Shortstop Maury Wills, insists that Juan Marichal is "a nice guy-and a great individual." He is that all right. He is the grinning practical joker who passes around a perfume vial labeled "Apple Blossom," which actually is a stink bomb. He is the "Dominican...
Dodger Catcher Johnny Roseboro was deeply concerned about race riots in the Watts section of Los Angeles near his home. Giants Pitcher Marichal had been brooding over the bloody civil war in the Dominican Republic. For tinder, there was the tension of the tightest National League race in history; for fire, a provocative trading of beanballs, curses and threats. In the third inning, with the Dodgers leading 2-1, Marichal came to bat. The second pitch was low inside; Roseboro dropped the ball, then picked it up and deliberately fired it as hard as he could back to the mound...