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...made. Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle were both close to breaking Babe Ruth's home-run record; by week's end their combined total broke the two-man record of 107 homers set by Ruth (60) and Gehrig (47) back in 1927. The pitching staff was solid: Whitey Ford was safely on the winning side of his first 20-game season, and Veteran Screwballer Luis Arroyo, 34, has become the finest Yankee relief pitcher since "Fireman Joe" Page. The infield was the tightest in baseball, and the Yanks led the league in just about everything that counted: runs...
Strong Starter. But the biggest Tiger asset, as Detroit tries to overhaul the Yankees, is Pitcher Frank Lary, 30. He is certain to become the second American League pitcher (after Yankee Whitey Ford) to win 20 games this season, and significantly, he has run up the best part of his lifetime record against the Yankees themselves. Since 1955, he has beaten the Yankees 26 times, lost only nine times; last week he moved into a series with New York sporting a league record of 19-7 and in front of the Yanks, 3-1. (Only pitcher who ever beat...
...league where most starters act as if a ball game were only six innings long. Lary is an anachronism: he has finished 19 of his 30 starts. He works on his own, with no strong relief staff to back him up. The Yankees' ace 22-game winner, Whitey Ford, on the other hand, has completed only nine of 32 starting assignments. Says Tiger Manager Bob Scheffing: "He's the best damned pitcher I've seen around in years...
...another crack lefthander, New York Yankee's Whitey Ford, last week was one of disappointment. Going up against the Chicago White Sox with the best lifetime won-lost average (.715) and the best season record in either league (20-2), Ford suffered a tough loss, 2-1, ended a 14-game winning streak that began last June...
...appearances, he staggered to an 0-2 record and a ghastly earned-run average of 10.00. This week, when National Leaguers face the '61 Ford in San Francisco for the first All-Star game, they will see the same broad-shouldered, chunky lines as last year. But when Whitey Ford cranks up and kicks out his right foot in the easy, flowing motion that American Leaguers have learned to respect, he aims to prove that the performance of this year's model is vastly improved...