IN THE NEWS:
Dusty Rhodes gets his 3rd pinch hit of the WS, driving
in 2 runs in the 3rd. He is hitting for OF Monte Irvin,
who ironically had 11 hits in the 1951 Series. The
Giants' Ruben Gomez easily bests Indians P Mike Garcia
6-2.
IN THE NEWS:
In game 4 the Giants sweep the AL team with the best
record in history, as they score 4 runs in the 5th
to take a 7-0 lead. The final is 74
as Don Liddle defeats Bob Lemon.
IN THE NEWS:
Shoichi Kaneda of the Tokyo Swallows strikes out his
350th batter, surpassing the American season record
of 348, set by Bob Feller in 1948. Kaneda already
holds the single-game strikeout record in Japan with
15 in 1952 and 1954 and will go on to hold almost
every Japanese pitching record before retiring in
1969.
IN THE NEWS:
The ML owners vote down the sale of the Athletics
to a Philadelphia syndicate. A week later, Arnold
Johnson buys a controlling interest in the Athletics
from the Mack family for 3.5 million and moves the
team to Kansas City.
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