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...York, Yankee Johnny Mize became the 93rd player in major-league history to hit safely 2,000 times. The only other members of the 2,000-hit club in active service: Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals, Bob Elliott of the Chicago White...
Like a few stars of the past, and like the St. Louis Cardinals' Stan Musial, or Boston's Ted Williams (now a marine fighter-pilot in Korea). Mantle is that combination of color, speed and power at the plate that makes baseball turnstiles spin. Naturally, the Yankees are delighted. So, with duly diminished enthusiasm, are the other American League club owners. Mantle makes their turnstiles spin, too, and in a year when TV has all club owners worried...
...champion of the major leagues for the last six years, promptly put him to work in the same outfield with Hank Sauer who tied Kiner in homers last year (37). Chicago also picked up Kiner's $75,000 salary, second highest in baseball (after St. Louis Cardinal Stan Musial's). Rickey was estimated to have reduced his payroll by $67,000 and banked an additional...
...jets will be standing by to take off for Goose Bay, Labrador. Last week NBC and CBS representatives in Washington tried unsuccessfully to wheedle additional jets from the U.S. Air Force. Instead, NBC will load its films at Goose Bay into a souped-up PSI flown by Racing Pilot Stan Reaver. CBS, not to be outdone, will put its films into a PSI flown by Speed Pilot Joe DeBona. Both planes will race for Boston, and the films will be rushed on the air on arrival...
Ruffles & Flourishes. In East Molesey, England, Butcher Shop Executive Stan Richards and his bride, after a formal wedding, left the church under an arch of soupbones held aloft by 14 meatcutters...