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...pennant would be to wake up. The only man on the club who was batting as high as .290 was a pitcher, and the team's top slugger had hit only 12 home runs all year. (Not counting "Dodger homers," in which, as explained last week by Shortstop Maury Wills: "I get a base on balls, take second on a sacri fice, steal third, and come home on a fly ball.") But just the night before, the Dodgers had won their twelfth straight game, as Sandy Koufax shut out Cincinnati on two hits, 5-0, running his own season...
...Giants' lead to 3½ games over Cincinnati, only two games over the incredible Los Angeles Dodgers, who won their sixth straight in typical Dodger fashion; trailing the Milwaukee Braves 6-1, they fought back to tie the score, won the game in the 11th inning when Shortstop Maury Wills beat out a bunt, stole his third base of the game (and 88th of the season), and scored on Lou Johnson's two-out single...
Born. To Maury Wills, 32, base-stealing Dodger shortstop (84 as of last week), and Gertrude Elliot Wills, 31: their sixth child, fourth daughter; in Spokane, Wash...
...Stengel took over the New York Yankees- and the clown became the "Old Perfesser." In twelve years he won ten American League pennants (a record) and seven World Series (another record). Critics insisted that anybody could win with the Yankees. But was that it? "I was just a kid shortstop, 19 years old," says Mickey Mantle, "and Stengel made me into an outfielder in a month." When Billy Martin reported to the Yankees in 1950, his main claim to fame was that he had led the Pacific Coast League in errors by a second baseman. In 1953 Martin...
...into extra innings it went. "The same thing is going to happen again," moaned Maloney. In the top of the tenth, Cincinnati Shortstop Leo Cardenas finally hit a home run, to make it 1-0. Then the Cubs came to bat. Jim walked the first man he faced. Then he bore down. Billy Williams flied out, Ernie Banks bounced into a double play, and whooping, dancing Reds mobbed their hero on the mound. "Now that I've finally won one of these," said Maloney, "I'm confident I can do it again...