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...Fourth Game matched Dodger Carl Erskine against Yankee Tom Sturdivant-Erskine the canny righthander who set a series strikeout record (14) against the Yankees in 1953, Sturdivant the lanky in-and-outer who was almost released by the Yankees last spring and who was blasted out of the second game. For six innings Sturdivant let the leadoff Dodger get to first base, and for six innings he shut the door on all but one run. The Yanks chipped away at Erskine for three runs in four innings, and Erskine departed. Home runs by Mantle and Bauer pushed the Yankee total...
...makes do with what he has: a dinky curve, a sneaky but unspectacular fast ball, and a frustrating change of pace. He offers no single dramatic talent-he has no counterpart of Carl Hubbell's spectacular screwball, Walter Johnson's terrifying fast ball, Bobby Feller's strikeout touch. Pitch for pitch, many of his contemporaries have what the trade calls "more stuff," pitches that are harder, faster, or trickier. But better than any of them now on the mound, Robin Roberts can put the ball where he wants. There is one precious-diamond word for him-control...
...Author Harris have made their point: scratch a ballplayer and you find a human being, a taxpayer, a batter in the game of life whose exhilaration at pitching a shutout or swatting a homer with the bases full is apt to be balanced at any time by an ignominious strikeout or a sad walk to the showers. As the theme of a novel, this carries its own banality if only because no decent reader would want to quarrel with it. What makes Bang the Drum Slowly unique in current fiction is Author Harris' mastery of his offbeat scene...
Minnesota's left-of-center U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey, however, labeled it "twelve hits and one strike-out." The strikeout: Johnson's proposal on natural gas. Texan Johnson and Democrats from other gas-producing states want natural gas to flow free of federal price controls, while Democrats of Minnesotan Humphrey's stripe want tight control from Washington to hold prices down. Majority Leader Johnson's point on gas might in 1956 lead to a congressional fight demonstrating that not all Democratic hearts are in the same place. As for the rest of the program, the Democratic...
...first base!" When one-inning Third Baseman Tumulty came to bat, a pinch runner was ready to do his legwork for him, but hurly-burly "T.J." hit only a short dribbler, was thrown out at first.* Helped by such feeble batting as Tumulty's. Roosevelt's strikeout, and five Democratic errors, the G.O.P., making only one error, forged ahead, crushed the Democrats in five innings, 1-2-4. It was the first Republican victory in the history of the congressional event...