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Most important of all, the Braves themselves were agreed they could run all the way, and what made the big difference was the presence of a freckle-fisted pro named Albert Schoendienst. When they got Red from the Giants last June (in a trade for Pitcher Ray Crone, Second Baseman Danny O'Connell and Outfielder Bobby Thomson), the Braves got the leader they had been lacking for so long -a man who could tell them how to play and make them listen. Switchhitter Schoendienst had been around the league for so long (eleven years with the Cardinals before...
...Dodgers were lagging 6½ games behind, and the Braves were determined to plow them under. The plow was working. Big Henry Aaron, the Braves' heavy-wristed cleanup hitter, put the game away in the very first inning with a three-run homer to left. Second Baseman Red Schoendienst rapped another to right in the fifth. Rightfielder Bob Hazle, a remarkable rookie from Wichita, got three hits and boosted his four-week batting average back to an amazing .500. Meanwhile, Pitcher Lew Burdette, the covert spitballer still waiting for his first victory over Brooklyn this year (though...
...Baseman Joe Adcock with a broken leg and Outfielder Bill Bruton with an injured kneecap, the Milwaukee Braves kept right on running -hanging on among the leaders of the tightest National League pennant race in years. Then they made a routine trade and picked up Veteran Second Baseman Red Schoendienst from the Giants. With the oldtimer (almost 13 years in the big leagues, most of them with the St. Louis Cardinals) chattering at second and telling them how, the Braves caught their second wind, sprinted down the August stretch with a ten-game winning streak that broke up the race...
...wildly unpredictable street fight for the National League lead, the Milwaukee Braves were last week's gang to beat. After a shaky start the Braves' pitching staff was beginning to live up to preseason expectations, and from second base old (34) ex-Giant Red Schoendienst was spreading his old pro's confidence to the whole team. But the man mainly responsible for the Braves' surge into first place was a lithe Negro outfielder named Hank Aaron, who is hitting the baseball better and more often than any man in the National League...
...wants to form a team of Cardinal cast-offs-Bill Virdon, Jackie Brandt, Pete Whisenant, Joe Frazier, Alex Grammas, Solly Hemus, Bill Sarni, Haddix, Lawrence and, of course, Schoendienst-to play the present Cards. Proceeds to go to charity...