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...Reds' three starters, Jim O'Toole, Joey Jay, and Bob Purkey are all having fine years, although O'Toole's 12-12 won-lost record might not indicate as much. Short-stop Leo Gardenas and second-baseman Don Blasingame are holding up well, and at first base, cast-off Marty Keough has done some timely power hitting...
...team, New York leads the league in only one category, won-lost percentage. Their team batting average is .258, third in the league and well below last year, and they are second both in team fielding (.981) and pitching (E.R.A.3.79). From these statistics the secret should be clear. Though both as a team and as individuals they lead the league in no major division and placed only one man (Mantle, of course). on the elected All-Star-team, they have the highest general level of personnel in the American League...
...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...
...Rounding out an even decade as a Yankee regular, Ford is on the way to his best year. He has a dazzling 16-2 record that has accounted for nearly one-third of his team's victories. He leads the league with 122 strikeouts, owns the highest lifetime won-lost percentage among all active major-league pitchers (149-61 for .710) and the lowest earned-run average, with 2.74. Yet for all these flashy figures, Whitey Ford until this season seemed often to fall short of his promise...
Business Was Good. It was a seller's market. That day young Wade Blasingame effortlessly beat Hanford High 5-2, struck out 16 batters. By graduation he had a won-lost record of 26-0, five no-hitters, an average of 15 strike-outs a game, a niggardly 0.45 earned-run average, and eight major league clubs on his tail. While a platoon of scouts watched, wheedled and courted Wade. Dale Blasingame did all the talking for his boy. The talk was blunt, sometimes brutal. "Half a dozen teams were in there with high offers," says he. "Some others...