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...Louis is back from the brink. In many ways, its people have changed little. They still quaff their suds at the rate of 28 gal. per year per person, root for the Cardinals, thrive on sauerbraten, like to remember that their town produced T. S. Eliot as well as Stan Musial, and pronounce Gravois Street as "Gravoy." Men like Mayor Ray Tucker have brought a new awakening. Says he: "This is a warm, stable community. The people here are conservative and cautious. But I have yet to see them fail to respond to a program for civic betterment when...
...Ford started for New York, and he naturally found it hardest to lose-in eleven decisions, he had made the plunge only once. This time he did the next best thing: he retired after two innings, with the game tied 4-4. That left it up to Relief Pitcher Stan Williams, whose special talent is that he does not know how to field a bunt. In the eighth inning, he picked up a trickier-and threw the ball into left field. Then, he picked up another-and threw it into right field. Final score: Baltimore 7, New York 4. Said...
...season, and no one in either league has come close since. There are too many night games, too many coast-to-coast plane flights, too many tough young pitchers with that big new strike zone to shoot at. But then this year, there is Willie Mays, and Stan Musial sums it up pretty neatly when he says: "Common sense tells you nobody can hit .400-but if anybody can, it's Mays...
...Captain Stan Abrams, number one, and Jim Campen, in the second position, played well but both lost four and three as their oponents shot 71. Pete Tague, John Hawkins, and Kit Barrow turned in the victories...
Only captain Stan Abrams and Jim Campen, numbers one and two respectively, succeeded in defeating their counterparts on the well-balanced Eli seven. Abrams brought his season record to 5-2 as he won three...