IN THE NEWS:
Surprise Brooklyn starter rookie Roger Craig pitches
6 innings for the 5-3 win. Two HRs by Duke Snider
and one by Sandy Amoros in the first 5 innings
prove too much for New York. Snider, who hit 4 HRs
in the 1952 WS, becomes the first player in history
to do this more than once.
IN THE NEWS:
The Yanks kayo lefty Karl Spooner in the first
with 5 runs on 2 walks, 2 singles and Moose Skowron's
HR. Ford goes all the way for the 5-1 victory.
IN THE NEWS:
No more "wait till next year" as Brooklyn, behind
the 2-0 pitching of Johnny Podres, brings its first
WS championship to Brooklyn in 8 tries. Sixth-inning
replacement Sandy Amoros races over to the wall in
LF to one-hand an opposite-field bid for extra
bases by Yogi Berra with the tying runs on. Amoros
turns and fires to SS Pee Wee Reese who throws
a bullet to Gil Hodges at 1B for the DP on Yankee
base runner Gil McDougald.
IN THE NEWS:
Baseball great Branch Rickey steps down as GM of the
Pirates and moves into an advisory role with the Pirates.
Joe L. Brown, son of the actor, replaces him.
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