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First Baseman Moose Skowron, late of the Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers and Washington Senators, is hitting a fancy .301. Leftfielder Danny Cater, ex of the Philadelphia Phillies, is the league's No. 3 batter at .328. Catcher John Romano, who bounced from the White Sox to the Cleveland Indians and back again, has three home runs, 16 RBIs to his credit. Pitcher John Buzhardt, who never won more than ten games in any of his six previous big-league seasons, is sporting a 4-0 record and an earned-run average of 1.53-second lowest in the league...
...pitching, the White Sox would be a shoo-in for the pennant. But you can't have everything, and manager Al Lopez has always put a premium on pitching, speed, and sound defense. Tho only three reliable batters on the Sox are outfielder Floyd Robinson (.301), first baseman Bill Skowron (.282, 17 homers), and infielder Pete Ward (.282, 23 homers). The White Sox won't leave too many opposing pitchers shell-shocked, but with Pizzaro, Peters, Horlen, Howard, and Wilhelm, they don't need...
...Washington's neophyte Nats and Finley's flourescent Kansas City Athletics. Rocky Colavito and Jim Gentile have given Finley home run power in any park, and the Senators have managed to get as impressive 137 RBIs (second to Minnesota's astounding 182) from a most unassuming lot. Bill Skowron and Chuck Hinton will louse up many would-be champs...
...Good a Way As Any. The Dodgers had other heroes. Catcher John Roseboro hit a three-run homer off Whitey Ford, and First Baseman Bill Skowron, a Yankee discard, bedeviled his old teammates with two run-producing hits. But none could match Koufax. In the dressing room, he rubbed a little salt in Yankee wounds. "I would have been satisfied with 14 strikeouts," he said, "but I had to end the game some way, and that seemed as good...
Meanwhile, the Dodgers made the Yankees look like a farm club. Marvel ous Maury Wills blithely stole second on a pick-off play. Tommy Davis clouted two triples and ran his Series batting average to .625; "Moose" Skowron, still drinking thirstily at the well of revenge, put the game away with a wrong-way homer into the rightfield stands. Final score: Dodgers 4, Yankees...