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...record book was the tight fight for the National League batting title-and it went right down to the wire. Coming up to the plate on the last day of the season, the league-leading Giants' Willie Mays and Don Mueller and the Dodgers' Duke Snider were only a few hundredths of a percentage point apart...
Taciturn Don Mueller, always a power at the plate, inched up steadily on Mays and Snider all summer, pushed his total of base hits past the 200 mark-the first Giant to turn the trick since Jo-Jo Moore in 1936. A quiet, conscientious competitor, Mueller got so heated up by his team's pennant fight that he managed to set a record of sorts of his own: last month, for the first time in eleven years of organized baseball, he yammered at an umpire loudly enough to get himself tossed out of a game...
Since July 10, Willie has hit only nine homers, but his batting average has climbed steadily from .328 to .342, placing him second behind Dodger Duke Snider (.348). More important, Willie has batted in 105 runs and scored 106-more than any other Giant. In centerfield, he still makes the acrobatic catches and long pegs that save ball games...
...mistakes. At the plate, he started belting out base hits steadily. His current average: .331. "Here it is August," says Second Baseman Schoendienst, "and I think I have a shot at the batting championship, but I wouldn't be surprised if Moon beats out all of us-Duke Snider and Don Mueller included...
Team: New York (by four games) Pitcher: Wilson, Milwaukee (7-0) Batter: Snider, Brooklyn (.353) Runs Batted In: Musial...