Walt Whitman Junior High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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SPORTS 1963 Last year's baseball season ended with the Mets in the cellar and the Angels and Twins surpris- ing everybody by coming in second and third. Likewise surprising was the playoff between the two great rivals, the HArtfulH Dod- gers and the HReally Hotn Giants. The Giants won the first, lost the second, and won the third by scoring in the ninth inning. In the series between the Giants and the Yankees, the Yankees fought to the death and won, four games to three. This year the Dodgers will once again seek revenge and try to take the pennant and the ser- ies. Most of the teams will start off with the same rosters as last year. The Mets, however, have been buying and trading men like wildfire. They are getting most of them to improve their hitting power. Once again, Met Gil Hodges will be starting at first base in his seventeenth year of pro-ball. In the other league, the Yanks will have more trouble in getting the pennant. Their rivals will probably be the Twins, Angels, and the White Sox. Snady Koufax, the Dodger south paw, who hurt his pitching hand last year Cin the middle of the season and left his strikeout re- cord at to beat This year of erybody 2093 will be trying again the record of 368. season will also be the the HHome Runn with ev- trying to beat Maris' record of sixty one home runs. It surely will be an exciting S63.SO1'l. Fred Avner STAN MUSIAL Stan Musial is going to play for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1963 for his twenty-first sea- son. When Stan first came up to the Majors in 1941, many experts thought he wouldn't last long on account of his peculiar batting stance. How wrong they proved to be. He sparked the Cardinals, hitting .357 in '43, in '46 he hit .365, in '51 .355, and .351 in 1957. During Musial's rookie season,he helped the Cardinals win their first pennant since 1934. After a year in the Navy, Stan returned to the Cardinals in 1943. In his sophomore year, he shot right to the top, winning his first batting title, and first MVP. In l944,he just lost the batting title to Brooklyn's Dixie Walker by ten points. In 1946 he hit .346, and once again won the MVP. Year after year Stan was always leading in most of the batting contests, and proved to be one of the games greatest su- per-stars. All together Stan has won three MVP awards, and seven batting titles. It is impossible to mention all of Stan's records, because he holds so many of them. Stan's greatest achievement is that he made more hits than any other Major leaguer, except Ty Cobb. When asked about retirement, Stan replied: Ulf there is a younger player ready to take my place, I'd gladly step aside.H A. Busch Jr., owner of the Car- dinals, said: nSince when do you ask a .330 hitter to retire?U Fred Sharpe 79

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