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Confusion reigned at home plate in the tenth inning of the
fourth and final game of the World Series between the
New York Yankees and the Cincinnati Reds at Cincinnati,
Oct. 8, 1939. Three runs scored when the Reds' catcher,
Ernie Lombardi, was knocked down and dazed. Frank
Crosetti and Charley Keller were on base when Joe Di-
Maggio singled. Crosetti scored and was followed by Keller
World Series Thrills And Spills
By Mel Allen
(Special To Covington News)
Though millions of Ameri
cans watch the World Series
every year on TV and in the
stands, few people know the
exciting scope of Series history.
World Series play through the
years has involved tragedy
and comedy, exhibitions of
great courage and instances of
heartbreak.
What was the top thrill?
Some might vote for Sandy
Amoros’ great catch in the
seventh game of the 1955
World Series. Speedy Sandy’s
lunge turned Yogi Berra’s
drive into a double play as the
Dodgers won their first World
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But for the many who have
listened to or watched the 25
World Series broadcasts on the
Gillette Cavalcade of Sports,
and who want to make up their
own minds, it’s certain that an
i avalanche of votes would go
to the fifth game in the 1956
’ Series. That was the time when
lanky Yankee right - hander
Don Larsen hurled a perfect
no-hit, no-run game against
■ the Dodgers.
1 Larsen who towered a 6 feet
; 4 inches, threw without a
> windup as the Yankees down
‘ ‘ed the Dodgers 2-0 and went
1 on to take the Series in a full
who bowled over Lombardi. Meanwhile DiMaggio was
sprinting around the bases and scored while Lombardi sat
on the ground. Crosetti is No. 1; Bill Dickey is No. 8; Di-
Maggio is in front of Dickey: Tim Sullivan, Yankee batboy
is at right, and Bill Werber of the Reds tries to aid the dazed
Lombardi. The umpire is Babe Pinelli.
seven games. Don needed help
only once —and Mickey Mantle
came through with a magnifi
cent one-handed catch of Gil
Hodges’ sizzling liner in the
fifth inning.
That Series had its goat too,
1 in the person of burly Don
i Newcombe, who had hurled
i an incredible 27 victories for
’ the Dodger® during the regu
lar season. But Don flopped in
the Series, failing to go more
than three innings in either in
■ his two starts. Trying to nail
i down the vital final game,
■ Newcombe fell victim to a pair
I of crashing two-run homers
1 by Yogi Berra, whose bat high-
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lighted the Yankees’ 9-0 romp.
For pure guts on the field,
many a fan will never forget
the Dizzy Dean of 1938—his
fast ball gone, his arm nearly
dead as he came into the sec
ond game for the Chicago Cubs
with just slow stuff and cour
age.
A freak play in the second
inning gave the Yankees two
runs as a gift, but Dean, with
a trace of his old wizardry,
kept the Cubs’ hopes alive un
til the eighth. Then Frank
Crosetti slammed a two- run
homer, Joe DiMaggio followed
suit in the ninth, and that was
it. But Diz put on a show of
courage rarely matched in
baseball.
There was heartbreak in the
fourth game of the Dodger-
Yankee Series in 1947 when
big Floyd Bevens, the erratic
New York right-hander, came
close to baseball immortality.
Bevens went into the bottom
of the ninth with a no-hitter
going and a 2-1 lead — he’d
given up a run in the fifth on
two walks, a sacrifice and a
ground out. He retired the first
batter, walked the second, and
got the next out. Pinch hitter
Pete Reiser was intentionally
passed to put two men on base
and then Cookie Lavagetto, al
so pinch hitting, bounced the
second pitch off the right field
wall to drive in both runners
and sew up the game.
It was the only hit of the
game, but it was enough.
The 1939 Series, the first
ever broadcast on the now
famous Gillette Cavalcade of
Sports, offered one of the daf
fiest episodes in the history of
baseball. It was the fourth
game, with the Reds and the
Yankees tied at 4-all in the
! tenth. With Frank Crosetti and
Charlie Keller on base, Yankee
slugger Joe DiMaggio belted a
single. Crosetti romped in with
one run and Keller steamed
around the bases, headed full
tilt for home plate. Cincinnati
catcher Ernie Lombardi, block
ing the plate, took the throw,
then Keller plowed into him
and knocked him for a loop.
Lorn sprawled on the ground,
I stunned and at a loss. DiMag
go, meanwhile, churned up
the base path and sped across
home as Ernie lay like a “dy
ing swan”. That gave the Yan
kees a 7-4 win.
Another mad moment oc
curred when Nippy Jones of
the Milwaukee Braves put his
best foot forward—and got the
title of “shoeshine boy’’ in the
1957 championship contest
against New York. Nippy, his
shoes polished brightly, pinch
hit for lefty Warren Spahn in
the bottom of the tenth inning,
with the Braves behind 5-4.
The first pitch was low and
inside, and Nippy hopped back.
Umpire Augie Donatelli called
it a ball, but Jones said the
ball had hit him. Augie, an old
hand at that sort of thing, stood
his ground and so did Nippy.
Jones got the ball and there
on the horsehide was a black
smudge of shoepolish. Augie
knew when he was licked and
he waved Jones to first base.
This opened the gate. Johnny
Logan doubled to knock in the
tying run and Eddie Matthews
salted the game away with a
homer. Lew Burdette went on
to take two of the next three
games to give Milwaukee the
Series, four games to three.
Another fluke cost the Yan
kees the Series in 1960 against
Pittsburgh in a game that
surely ranks as one of the most
thrilling in Series history. In
the seventh and decisive con
test, the Pirates came to bat in
the eighth inning with New
York leading 7-4. Gino Cimoli
singled to right. Bill Virdon
then rapped what seemed like
an obvious double play ball to
shortstop Tony Kubek. But the
ball hit a pebble, took a sharp
hop and struck Kubek in the
throat hard enough to knock
him out of the game. Pitts
burgh went on to tally five
runs, but the never-say-die
Yankees tied it up in the ninth.
Then, leading off for the Pi
rates in the bottom of that
frame, Bill Mazeroski selected
a 1-0 pitch and rapped it out
of the park. That was the game
and the Series for Pittsburgh's
upstart Pirates.
These are just a few of the
thrills and spills from a quar
ter-century of World Series
play. No doubt the 1963 Series
will have a few cliff-hangers
of its own.
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Baseball! Is It Dead Today?
Today in Nashville. Tenn, is one living example why the
baseball picture is slowly fading away into oblivion. Ancient
(102 year old) Sulphur Dell is the graveyard of AA baseball
as the Sally League came to its 1963 conclusion recently.
This brings us to the subject of greedy ownership as the
main reason the former National Pastime is being lowered
to “six foot under” in the minor cities. Larry Gilbert owned
the Nashville franchise in the old Southern Association in
1946-49 and the gate turnstile clicked to almost daily capa
city houses. In fact, reserved seats were at a premium weeks
before the Vols were to play at Sulphur Dell in any series.
The disposition (or sale) of these reserved seats were
handled by a two-by-four hat store just off Church Street
on Fifth in Nashville and the ticket seller was indignant
when most people inquired of tickets to a certain game.
Once you got to the ball park, in a smokefilled section
of the city, the facilities at The Dell were just about every
thing that made the fan feel as if it were a “take it or leave
it” promotion of the Gilberts. They did nothing to sell base
ball in Nashville and apparently looked on their franchise
as if it must have been a monopoly.
This is just one example of how minor league moguls
contributed to their own downfall and in particular, base
ball in the lower leagues.
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The mighty tarpon, one of
the fine game fish exhibited
at Marineland of Florida, rises
to the surface to gulp down air
when oxygen in the water is
in short supply.
The “big three” benefits of
the GI Bill of June 22, 1944,
were education and training,
GI loans, and readjustment al
lowances. Only the GI loan
program is still actively being
supervised by the Veterans Ad
ministration today.
The object of the Veterans
Administration's rehabilitation
program is to return the dis
abled or handicapped veteran
to his own community as an
independent, self - supporting
citizen.
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to be successfully born in cap
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recently celebrated her six
teenth birthday at Marineland
of Florida.