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...Good a Way As Any. The Dodgers had other heroes. Catcher John Roseboro hit a three-run homer off Whitey Ford, and First Baseman Bill Skowron, a Yankee discard, bedeviled his old teammates with two run-producing hits. But none could match Koufax. In the dressing room, he rubbed a little salt in Yankee wounds. "I would have been satisfied with 14 strikeouts," he said, "but I had to end the game some way, and that seemed as good...
...sturdy (6 ft. 2 in., 205 Ibs.) lefthander, Koufax has a baffling overhand motion and a bewildering arsenal of pitches. His fastball comes in like a 20-mm. cannon shell; his curve breaks so sharply that it acts, says Dodger Catcher John Roseboro, "like a chair whose legs suddenly collapse." Control? "When an umpire calls my pitch a ball," says Koufax casually, "that means it is either high or low. It's never outside or inside." All in all, agrees St. Louis Cardinals' Slugger Ken Boyer, "Koufax is just too damned much...
...staff is suspiciously great, never having lived up to its potential. Last year Sandy Koufax's fingers went numb; this year Don Drysdale may need psychiatric care in mid-August. Behind the plate the ex-Brooks feature John Roseboro, a .249 hitter...
...inning went by without infielders caroming off outfielders, pitchers falling on their faces chasing bunts, or wild throws zinging off in all directions. In the last game, the butterfingered Bums booted three in one inning: Pitcher Johnny Podres grabbed a bunt and heaved the ball into centerfield, Catcher Johnny Roseboro fired a pickoff throw into the tall grass, and Second Baseman Jim Gilliam uncorked a relay to first base that hit Giant Harvey Kuenn on the back of the noggin. The three-game tally by a genially myopic official scorer: seven errors for the Dodgers, four for the Giants...
...aging veterans of the two teams canceled each other out (the Dodgers' Hodges, Furillo and Snider v. the White Sox's Wynn, Kluszewski and Lollar). The Dodgers won because their defense turned the touted Chicago go-go attack to molasses. The whiplash throws of Catcher John Roseboro allowed only two White Sox to steal second in the entire Series. The Dodgers' slick infield, built around the double-play combination of Shortstop Maury Wills and Second Baseman Charley Neal, both lean and limber as greyhounds, outmatched Chicago's famed duo of Shortstop Luis Aparicio and Second Baseman...