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...Bill Turley...
Pitcher Bob Turley served up a gopher ball to the Tigers' Harvey Kuenn. "It was right at the Yankee Stadium score-board," says Turley, now a pitching coach with the Boston Red Sox. "Hank couldn't quite catch up to the ball. But somehow, God only knows how, he got close enough to tip it with his bare hand -and flip it right into Mickey Mantle's glove. Hank crashed into the Scoreboard, bounced off and trotted back to right-field." Then there was the last game of the 1951 World Series, against the New York Giants...
...claim to have broken the British record might be based on the 1949 birth of a boy in Helena, Ark., to Mrs. Fred Turley, who believed she was 59. But Mrs. Turley, born in France, could never prove her date of birth...
Forced to fall back on second-line pitching when Bob Turley developed a sore arm and Art Ditmar totally lost his effectiveness. Houk unhesitatingly moved Youngsters Roland Sheldon (10-5) and Bill Stafford (13-9) into the regular starting rotation. The high-strung Yankees, who had detested dictatorial Manager Stengel, responded enthusiastically to Houk's subtler brand of discipline. At a time when his every swing counted in his assault on Babe Ruth's home-run record (TIME, Sept. 29), Roger Maris bunted down the third-base line to squeeze the winning run across the plate...
...Nelson, 35. In his 16-season baseball career, Nelson had played for six big-league teams and been consigned to the minors five times before finally catching on with Pittsburgh, where he was revered for the art of chewing tobacco for a full hour without spitting. Against Yankee Bob Turley (who neither smokes nor chews), Nelson drove a two-run homer over the rightfield wall and the Pirates...