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The Baseball Once-Upon-A Times.: Brewers' Long, Winding Road Leads Finally! To 1st Place
The Baseball Once-Upon-A Times.: Brewers' Long, Winding Road Leads Finally! To 1st Place
FINAL EDITION
VOL. 2, No. 8
TEN CENTS
W
4
4
2
2
2
1
L
1
1
2
2
4
4
PCT.
.800
.800
.500
.500
.333
.200
GB
----1
1
2
3
N.L. EAST
Chicago
New York
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Montreal
St. Louis
W
5
3
3
2
1
1
L
1
1
2
2
3
4
PCT.
.833
.750
.600
.500
.250
.200
GB
--1
1
2
3
3
A.L. WEST
Milwaukee
Oakland
Kansas City
Chicago
Minnesota
California
W
3
4
3
2
2
1
L
1
2
3
3
3
4
PCT.
.750
.667
.500
.400
.400
.200
GB
----1
1
1
2
N.L. WEST
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Cincinnati
Houston
Atlanta
San Diego
W
4
4
2
3
2
1
L
2
2
2
4
3
5
PCT.
.667
.667
.500
.429
.400
.167
GB
----1
1
1
3
Around Baseball
Including final
results of all ball
games
AB
AVG.
Kosco, Mil.
17
Kenney, N.Y.
16
Pena, Mil.
17
May, Mil.
Howard, Was.
AB
AVG.
.529
Montanez, Phi.
13
.538
.500
Beckert, Chi.
25
13
.520
.471
Henderson, S.F.
20
.450
14
.429
McCovey, S.F.
20
.450
26
11
.423
Williams, Chi.
25
11
.440
Johnstone, Chi.
19
.421
Jones, N.Y.
16
.438
Reichardt, Chi.
19
.421
Parker, L.A.
23
10
.435
Cater, N.Y.
19
.421
Perez, Atl.
17
.412
Brown, Cle.
15
.400
Pepitone, Chi.
27
11
.407
Mincher, Oak.
15
.400
Davis, L.A.
25
10
.400
RBI: Howard (Was.) 9; Kosco (Mil.) 7; Killebrew (Min.) 7; five tied with 6.
Wins: Several tied with 1-0.
Strikeouts: Blue (Oak.) 22; John (Chi.) 13;
Lolich (Det.) 12; Fingers (Oak.) 11; Hunter
(Oak.) 11.
ERA: Fingers (Oak.) 0.00; Hedlund (K.C.)
0.00; Palmer (Bal.) 0.00; Siebert (Bos.) 0.00;
Cox (Was.) 0.56.
N.L., Page 2
VIEWS OF SPORTS
NATIONAL
HR: Stargell (Pit.) 3; Aaron (Atl.) 3; Cannizzaro (S.D.) 3; King (Atl.) 3; eight tied with 2.
RBI: King (Atl.) 8; Williams (Chi.) 7; five tied
with 6.
Wins: Jenkins (Chi.) 2-0; Marichal (S.F.) 2-0;
several tied with 1-0.
Strikeouts: Seaver (N.Y.) 23; Singer (L.A.) 15;
Sutton (L.A.) 14; Jenkins (Chi.) 13; Holtzman
(Chi.) 10.
ERA: Garrett (Cin.) 0.00; Billlingham (Hou.)
0.00; Santorini (S.D.) 0.00; four tied with 1.00.
By Red Smith
Philadelphia Story
The Philadelphia Phillies have red shoes, a
sauna bath, two handball courts and wall-towall carpeting in their clubhouse and on the
playing field. Their customers in their $15,800a-year boxes have carb casino with their martinis. Their owner, Bob Carpenter, has in his office the rolltop desk that belonged to the original John Wanamaker.
There is practically nothing the Phillies dont
have except players capable of moving them up
to fourth place in the National League East.
They even have the all-time attendance record for a baseball game in the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania. When they opened their new
playpen with a 5-2 conquest of the Montreal
Expos on Saturday, 55,352 immortal souls
showed up to boo club and league officials,
players, umpires, politicians and Bowie Kuhn.
Not even in that golden past when Richie
Allen was here to be abused did the clientele
turn out in such numbers. This crowd was only
65,405 short of Philadelphias record for a
sporting event, established by the DempseyTunney fight in 1926. To be sure, not all paSMITH, Page 3
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N.L.
From Page 1
Hall
Worthy?
Age W* L
World Cy
Series Young MVP
Gibson
Marichal
* In the 1960s, Marichal led the majors with 191 wins; Gibson was 2nd with 164
Pirates 3, Braves 1
ATLANTA Dock Ellis
turned in eight solid innings
and Willie Stargell homered
for the third time in four
games as the Pirates trimmed
the Braves.
Ellis (1-1) held Atlanta to
one run in eight innings. For
good measure, his two-run go
-ahead single put Pittsburgh
up for good in the third.
Stargells four-bagger was
the 199th of his career.
Jim Nash (0-1) took the
loss for Atlanta, allowing
three runs in seven frames.
Astros 4, Cubs 2
HOUSTON Don Wilson stymied the Cubs for
eight innings and his two-run
single provided the margin of
victory as the Astros dealt the
Cubs their first loss of the
season.
Chicagos 5-0 start was its
best since 1934.
Wilson (1-0) held the Cubbies to two runs in eight
frames. His two-run single
capped a three-run rally in the
seventh. Reliever Fred Gladding earned his second save.
Billy Williams clubbed his
second home run for Chicago.
He has seven RBI, second in
the National League.
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Smith
From Page 1
rishioners remained throughout the devotions to see the home team achieve its second victory of 1971. After five innings, at
least 10,000 had quit the windy stands for
the comfort of some saloon.
Remembrance of Things Past
Ever since vaudeville was in flower,
Philadelphia has been pictured as a bluenosed dowager among cities, where life
moves at a pneumatic crawl. Like many
stereotypes, this is inaccurate. Veterans
Stadium so-called out of respect for Jim
Bunning, who pitched and won the first
game opened only 18 months behind
schedule after no more than 25 years of
talk about building over the Pennsylvania
Railroad tracks near 30th Street Station,
about building on a site picked out by Carpenter in northeast Philadelphia, about
jumping across the Delaware to New Jersey.
The location finally chosen used to be
the city dump, which is an unintentional
but fitting tribute to the Phillies purple
past.
Baker Bowl, where the team played
from 1887-1938, had the charm of a city
dump, but not the size. If the right fielder
had beer on his breath, as he frequently
did, the first baseman could smell it. For
that matter, the whole team smelled most
of the time, even though a sign covering
the whole wall in right field boasted: The
Phillips Use Lifebuoy.
Dear old Baker Bowl. It was the only
park in the majors that had a child born in
the ladies room between innings. (The
obstetrician had advised against going to
the game, but Grover Alexander was
pitching.)
Goodbye to All That
That was in 1912, when Alexander won
Home runs in the new stadium are supposed to stir Philadelphia Phil and Philadelphia Phyllis to action but they, like
the grandstand elevator, werent working
Saturday. Phil and Phyllis are 15-foot
dolls in colonial costume ornamenting
the faade in center field. When the Phillies get a home run, Phil bats a line drive
that bongs against a 15-foot Liberty Bell,
causing the crack in the bell to light up.
On a carom, the ball hits Phyllis in the
rear. Startled, she jerks a lanyard and
fires a cannon. A Betsy Ross model flag
unfurls and dancing waters spring up
from fountains.
These features complement a $3 million electric scoreboard that displays
batting averages, advertisements, animated cartoons and greeting to fans
groups from the York Road Tavern and
Swamp Lutheran Church.
There is deep personal animosity here
toward performing scoreboards and other
contrived gimmicks that upstage the
game in the view of some spectators, but
perhaps the Phillies need distractions.
Though the priceless antique Bunning
gave them splendid pitching, the firing
squad cant bear close inspection.