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...Army, already up to its boot-tops in professional athletic talents, last week snared two more famous names: New York Yankee Shortstop Tony Kubek, 25, married only two weeks, who joined Wisconsin's Red Arrow Division at Fort Lewis, Wash., and Green Bay Packer Halfback Paul Hornung, 25, top scorer in the National Football League, who reports next week to Fort Riley, Kans., at the end of a two-week deferment granted on medical grounds. Said Hornung, who originally was disqualified because of a pinched nerve in his neck, then pronounced fit after a second exam...
...doesn't much matter what else you do, or how people feel about you, or what your personality is. Winning is all that counts." To tighten the shaky Yankee defense, Houk discarded Casey Stengel's platooning tactics, installed Tony Kubek permanently at shortstop, slick-fielding Cletis Boyer at third. To get more power into his lineup, he shifted Catcher Yogi Berra to leftfield, made longtime Second Stringer Elston Howard the No. 1 catcher...
Somehow team morale survived. Shortstop Ruben Amaro, 25, and Third Baseman Charlie Smith, 23, tried so hard that they drove themselves to exhaustion and had to be benched. After collisions with a wall in St. Louis and a Scoreboard in Pittsburgh, Utility Outfielder Bobby Gene Smith went right on giving his all-until a physical examination revealed a broken rib. In the locker room, heads rarely sagged in despair. "We all felt we were going to win each day," said Pitcher Art Mahaffey, who lost ten games in a row. "If you lose that feeling, you might as well quit...
...threatened by two men: Yankee Sluggers Mickey Mantle (45 home runs to date) and Roger Maris, who brought his total to 48 last week, with seven home runs in six games. As a clincher, lively ball theorists cite the case of the Los Angeles Dodgers' skinny shortstop, Maury ("Mighty Mouse") Wills, who fortnight ago, in his 331st big-league game, and after 1,675 at-bats, hit his first home...
...Oriole First Sacker Jim Gentile poked only two, but both came with the bases full; with the season only half gone, Gentile thus tied the American League record of four grand slams in a full season, one away from the major league mark of five set by Chicago Cub Shortstop Ernie Banks. In six days, sluggers batted out 131 home runs, sending big league totals to 1,443 for the season-close to 200 ahead of last year, with two more teams in competition...