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...infield has tightened up into a solid defensive unit. A slimmed-down Joe Foy has picked up his defensive play at third base, and the double play combination of Rico Petrocelli at shortstop and Andrews at second has been one of the bright spots all spring...
...Barry Wood Jr. '32 played quarterback in football, center forward in hockey and shortstop in baseball. Michigan's immortal coach Fielding Yost called him the best passer he had even seen after Wood mesmerized the Wolverlines in his fourth varsity appearance. In hockey, Wood had several hat tricks and in his senior year, singlehandedly tromped Yale in one game and produced a crucial tying goal in another...
...Cards, it was sweet revenge against the youngster who had handled them like Little Leaguers in his two previous starts. Every Redbird but Orlando Cepeda got on base. There was Shortstop Dal Maxvill, only .227 for the season, booming out a tremendous triple to start everything off in the third inning. And Castoff Yankee Roger Maris, driving in still another run, his seventh of the Series, to prove that he's the money player everybody said he wasn't. And Second Baseman Julian Javier, batting cleanup by default during Cepeda's slump and pounding out a three...
Thanks to Yastrzemski's three-run homer, Lonborg took a comfortable 5-0 lead to the mound in the eighth. The buzzing in Fenway rose to cheering when Tim McCarver hit an easy dribbler to Adair at second. After shortstop Rico Petrocelli swept up Mike Shannon's grounder, the cheer mounted to a high- pitch scream. Lonborg sthood just four outs away from pitching the second World Series no-hitter in baseball history...
...Lonborg kicked high and fired at Twin's pinch-hitter Rich Rollins, who popped up to shortstop. As the ball disappeared into the glove of Rico Petrocelli, Lonborg disappeared in a swarm of Red Sox fans. Boston had beaten Minnesota, 5-3, for its first first-place finish in 21 years, and the Fenway crowd tore the score from the left-field scoreboard...