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...World Champion New York Yankees' strong, silent Roger Maris, 27, who outpoled Teammate Mickey Mantle in home runs, 61-54, during this year's race with the Ruthian record, last week outpolled him among the baseball press, 202-198, to become the American League's most valuable player for the second consecutive year (previous back-to-back winners: Jimmy Foxx, Hal Newhouser, Yogi Berra and Mantle...
Ohiri is a better bet on Harvard and Ivy soccer records than Maris was on the Ruthian "60." With 14 goals behind him, he needs one more to tie the Harvard record of 15 in an 11-game season. The Ivy record of eight in a season seems particularly vulnerable: Chris scored five times in the first of seven matches...
...last time the Yankees were thus humiliated in a Series game was in the Ruthian era (in 1926) when Jesse Haines, another Cardinal, in the third game of the Series, stilled the Yank bats, turned the tide, and the Cardinals went on to win the championship. Last week Ernie White turned the tide as Haines had done. The game he won was the third of the Series. It put the Cards one crucial game ahead...
...better club unquestionably won. Good pitching by Pitchers Wilcey Moore and George Pipgrass, marvelous pitching by Pennock, the two Ruthian home-runs and the sustained New York attack were too much for the National League team. But the factor that made the series almost a farce? the factor that enabled the Yankees to run off four consecutive victories (a feat previously performed by only the Boston National League club in 1914) was not so much New York pitching, or New York hitting. It was "errors-by?," errors by Pittsburgh...