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The 1959 All-Star Game was the first year in which the MLB held an All-Star Game doubleheader.
The first game of 1959 was held at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, and the second game would be played a month later in Los Angeles.
This experiment of two All-Star games continued for just four seasons. The league returned to just one annual game in 1963.
In this first game of 1959, the American League starts 39-year-old veteran early win, while the National League goes with 22-year-old Don Drysdale.
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From Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the Gillette Fancy Razor Company welcomes you to the 26th All-Star Baseball Game.
Hello there everybody, with Jack Brickhouse. This is Bob Brent, ready to bring you the mid-season baseball classic between the outstanding players of the American and National Leagues.
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This, ladies and gentlemen, is Forbes Field in Pittsburgh. No longer is Pittsburgh the smoky city, but instead one of the most beautiful and dynamic of them all.
The field was built by a German immigrant named Bonnie Dreyfus back in the year 1909, 50 years ago.
So this means that on this, the 200th anniversary of the great city of Pittsburgh, we also have the 50th anniversary of Forbes Field.
Bonnie Dreyfus had moved his ball club to Pittsburgh from Louisville at the turn of the century, then proceeded to win three straight minutes,
after which he very pridefully decided that by golly, his players and fans deserved a new ballpark.
He picked one of the most fashionable sections of town known as Oakland, and fought the good fight through until he saw his dream come true, and they broke ground in 1909.
Four months later, in record time, they opened the gates, and they named it Forbes Field after the Revolutionary War figure General John Forbes, who had camped his army here.
So here we are now, 50 years later, half a dozen war years later, and of course, ready to enjoy one of the great things in our way of life that's been saved by all those tragic wars.
Baseball indeed is underway, as now, ladies and gentlemen, the vice president of the United States makes his appearance down the left field line.
As he enters with the presidents of both leagues, and everyone concerned through a standing ovation on this brilliant, sunshiny, warm afternoon from Pittsburgh,
Commissioner Ford Bricks, President Warren Giles, President Joe Cronin, members of the Secret Service,
and the first gentleman, Joe L. Brown of the Pittsburgh Parks and Party, here with the vice president at home plate, and they will pop out, of course, in this free ceremony, the first ball.
And down below, also, in the group, Mr. Branch Rickey Sr., one of the great names of all time in the world of baseball.
Late ceremony, the governor of Pennsylvania, the honorable David L. Lawrence, is also down below, and is being congratulated by all the umpires, and he in turn congratulating them.
The 26th renewal of the tremendous All-Star Classic that had its birth in Chicago now comes on, has had only one interruption, some seven years or more ago, here in Pittsburgh.
They played, in fact, a little longer than that, the first night game in this area of the All-Star Classic, and previous to that, they had gone into the All-Star Game at night in Philadelphia.
Many of these things will be passing your way as the broadcast gets underway.
The home team will be the National League All-Stars, therefore, let's go to the American League batting order.
In left field, batting number one, Minnie Minoso of Cleveland.
Batting in the number two spot is playing in second base, on the White Sox, Nellie Fox.
In the number three spot, the center fielder of Detroit, Al Kaline.
Batting clean-ups from the New York Yankees, playing at first base, Luce Schowren.
In right field, the rifle-like arm of Rocky Colavito of the Cleveland Indians, batting number five, Gus Priandos of Baltimore, will be the opening catcher, batting number six.
That is in the lineup, the sensational home run hitting rookie of the Washington Senators, third baseman, Harmon Killibrew.
At short, batting in the number eight spot, Louis Aparicio of the Chicago White Sox.
And early wins, the great pitcher, with a record of 11-5, will be on the hill.
He also, as you know, of the White Sox.
For the National League home team, John Temple of Cincinnati leads it off and plays in second base.
Batting in the number two spot, the home run swatter far out of the line of Milwaukee Braves, Eddie Matthews, at third.
Henry Aaron in right field, bats in the number three spot of Milwaukee.
The incomparable Willie Mays of San Francisco plays center field, bats number four.
Ernie Banks is the shortstop, and he bats in the number five spot, Ernie Banks of Chicago.
First baseman, Orlando Cepeda, will bat in the number six spot.
As they are now introducing the American League All-Stars, Ted Williams, the last name to be introduced.
Paulie Moen in left field of the Los Angeles Dodgers, he's playing in the number seven spot and hitting there.
Dale Crandall catches, batting here, the Milwaukee Braves, and of the Los Angeles Dodgers,
the fine young right-hander Don Grosjeel with a record of nine and six.
And now to bring him on, the fine voice of WDN in Chicago, the young gentleman who is the fine sportscaster for the White Sox and the Chicago Cubs, Jack Brickhoff.
Thank you very much, Bob.
All right, as Bob Friess gave you the starting lineup, we won't have to do that again, but in case you didn't miss it when they come to bat, of course, you can box us out in case you want to score the ball game.
The temperature is 80 degrees. It's just a beautiful day in Pittsburgh.
When we came in from the airport yesterday, it was raining, and as we approached town from the airport, it got even heavier than ever, and we were a little nervous, and so was the cab driver, and so were the people down top.
But the weatherman was very confident all the way through, and it turned out that his confidence was based on some real authority, because this day has gone bright and beautiful.
We have a sun-stayed field. We have one of the most colorful settings, one of the most colorful settings, that's possible to imagine in the world of sports.
Therefore, we're going to be real, real happy for the rest of this afternoon with the excitement that's going to be generated here at the 26th All-Star Game.
As Bob told you, Vice President Nixon is here to throw off the first ball. He's standing up down there, the bots, right now, while the introductions of the squad continue.
He is flanked by the Commissioner of Baseball, and also I know this one child, President of the National League, and the new President of the American League, Joe Cronum, also down there.
The chairman of the board of the American League is also here, Will Harris, from Chicago and from Willmatt.
We have people from just all over the United States of America here at this game today, although of course the majority of them will be rooting for the National League, because after all, most of them are from Pittsburgh.
Ladies and gentlemen, our national anthem.
Get ready now for the Vice President to throw off the first ball. It'll happen in the next moment or so. I believe he may post one here for the photos.
And believe me, there's a real quam of photographers down there near the President, the Vice President, Joe Fox.
Bob, what are the ground rules in this ballpark?
Well, they're very simple and very brief. It's a ballpark that if any ball hits the front of the rail, bounces up into the double.
And only that, anything that hits over the left field scoreboard, the clock, and the light tower is above the height of the wall on the home run.
And the lines along the side are in play, even into the dugouts on both first and third.
And players may climb up on the tarpaulin and catch a ball as long as they remain only on top of that.
They're going over everything down below, and the Vice President has made several touches.
For the benefit of the photographers, Dale Crandall will be the man to receive. And there it is.
And now we get it underway. Let's pause ten seconds for station identification.
WGY, eight, ten on your dial, and WGSM, connect. Let's move this down the round.
This ballpark is ideally situated for those that are great hitters of triples and doubles.
It is not a good home run hitting ballpark normally.
There have been only five homers struck over the right field position.
It goes 300 feet down the right field line, but goes up a good 120 feet over that.
And we're in that catastrophe, indeed, because it will take two paces to free that area up with the ballpark.
And I'll do one good job, and I'd pure
I'll be on crowded shortest of shapes.
hitting ballpark normally. There have been only five homers struck over the right field
position. It goes 300 feet down the right field line, but goes up a good 120 feet over
that. Jack Brickhuis, when I'll bring you up to date on that information a little later
on. It falls out to 375. From 300 to 375, there's a screen in the right field deck.
The balls hit off that, of course, are merely in play. Then it goes to 436 and 437 in dead
center. The deepest part of this ballpark is in left center, 457 feet away, on a 20-foot
wall. It is 406 over the left center side, 365 down the left field line, and a high scoreboard
of some 30 feet that must be cleared. The ideal weather conditions prevail. This is
nothing in the way of a hitter's win today. Just a beautiful afternoon for baseball,
and we're so delighted to be able to present it to you on this, the 50th anniversary of
Forbes Field, and of course, the 200th anniversary of the city of Pittsburgh. Now, as the last
remaining shredded dot goes on, right down here, we'll be getting it underway in just
a moment. And here to call the front four and a half of this 26th All-Star Classic,
the veteran sports catcher of the White Sox and the Cubs, Jack Brickhuis. Down along the
sidelines, early win, the last fellow off the field has just thrown a final warm-up
shot to Yoki Berra. Yoki took over in place of Ray Berry, the White Sox pitching coach
on Wolfman Catcher, who has been designated as the warm-up or batting practice catcher.
Sam Derren had that job for the National Leaguer. The umpires have taken their stations. Al
Bonik of the National League will be at the plate. Here come the National Leaguer down
on the field. Taking their positions now, Wally Moon to left field, Willie May to center
field, Hank Aaron to right, Eddie Matthews to third, Ernie Banks to shortstop, Johnny
Temple in second, Orlando Cepeda at first, Drysdale will pitch the ball game to start
with. He'll work a minimum of three innings, rather a maximum of three innings. And the
other players, named by the ball players themselves, will work a minimum of three innings. Del
Delano catching the ball game. Now the National League coaches and the American League coaches
have both been posted out here for some time. Coaching for the American Leaguers will be
Harry Kraft of the Athletics, who will be working at first, and Tony Cucinello of the
Chicago White Sox will be taking up a very familiar post for him, third base coaching.
The batting players, as I said, are Al Bonik of the National League. Joe Paparone of the
American League will be at first. Augie Donatelli of the National League at second, and Ronnie
of the American League will be at third. And on the far line, John Wright of the American
League is watching those balls down the left field line, and Shag Crawford of the National
League doing the same thing down the left. In the batter's box right now is Vinnie Minosso.
Drysdale has won nine and lost six. It's one of the most promising young pitchers we've
ever seen. Here's the first pitch of the ball game, his fifth. There's a drive deep to center
field going way back for this Willie Mays, and he pulls that one in out there, about
390 feet from the plate. Minosso, a 297 hitter with 13 homers and 51 runs batted in,
with no time taking a good, healthy cut at pitch number one of this game. That will bring
up the second baseman of the Chicago White Sox, Nelson Foss. Foxy, a 330 hitter, is among
the leaders. He has two home runs and 41 runs batted in, and for him, the most unusual statistic
is that on the eye totally, second only to seven riders on the White Sox, it runs batted
in. There is strike one ball. Down Drysdale, we just saw throw 11 strikeouts at the Chicago
Cubs back at Wrigley Field over the weekend. Has won nine and lost six. He throws sidearm.
There's a fly ball foul down the third base side and drops just out of reach of a few
of those fans down there, but also out of reach of the left fielder, Wally Moon, the
third baseman, Matthews, and the shortstop, Bang, to also race out there. The low seats
shut out pretty far onto the field, and there is a blank area, a ground area there, which
is foul territory between the end of the bottom seat down the third base side and the beginning
of what might be called the grandstand section extending on out into left field. Good spot.
Oh, there's another foul off the left side, Fox. That one winds up for just a moment on
the third deck. This is a triple deck stadium, by the way. And now, Dale Crandall, the catcher,
has gone on to have a little talk with Drysdale. This kid throws aspirin tablets when he's
right. He throws sidearm, and the way he became a sidearm, which is a little interesting to
me, I happen to ride on the plane with Don from Chicago yesterday. He told me he developed
a sidearm delivery as a second baseman in high school throwing sidearm normally. This
is one arm. Fox struck out. There's a rarity. Elton Fox strikes out. He rarely ever does
that. That's two downs. Brings up the center fielder, K-Line, a very courageous ball player.
A fellow who's made a great comeback from a most painful and most distressing injury.
He was hit by a relay ball on a double play. A first base was deflected off the first baseman's
glove and it cut his cheekbone, broke the bone. He's been shot down pretty good. It's
stitched up pretty well on this one. He's hitting 3.44. He just got back in action recently.
He's taken over center field for Jimmy Dyches Detroit Tigers. He's done a marvelous job.
He has 15 overs and 50 runs founded in. There's a curveball strike, a fast curve. Drysdale
has about three feet on the curveball, and Don himself, strangely enough, thinks that
he throws one of those curveballs three quarters overhand, but his own teammates keep assisting
him still a sidearm pitch. He can't see it that way. That's a little outside. A good
fastball. His fast curve is a real hummer, and that fastball, of course, when he's on,
is very, very difficult to even speak. Drysdale, I might point out, came a farther last Friday.
He hasn't seen that daughter of his yet. At one, 53 weeks old. Inside pitch, takes his
back, got away. Count on the batter is the ball three and strikes one to Kalei. Two out.
Nobody on base for the American Leaguers in the first inning. People still streaming into
the ball park. Sunday's famous warm field and pitch first. Drysdale gets his side. Here's
the motion. Wides up. Sidearm pitch. Kalei. Strikeout. Don Drysdale leaves the National
League in strikeout to jump short wide. No runs. No hits. No errors. Nobody left, and
we have the National League coming to bat at the moment. Now the American League takes
the field. So at the middle of the first inning, the score is nothing to nothing. 50 years
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Leading off in the first inning, in the batting box now is second baseman Johnny Temple.
Cincinnati's great second baseman. 326 hitter, four molars, 32 runs batted into the air.
The picture early win of the Chicago White Sox, he won 11-0 off five so far this year,
a 260 major league victory for this great, great performance. Triando, Sekecha, Jason
and Seydl, we'll set those alpulas, gengulas in a moment there. The curveball, strike, strike
one win. Of course, still has a fast flow, but it's not the real plays, there's a dry
zilp roll, but he now resorts the guile and he has about as much root cutting as any picture
you could possibly name. Curveball, one under the five, straight away to center, K-line
goes back, it doesn't stop, reaches up, takes it. Set the line, one straight away to center,
field about 340 feet from the plate. One away, the batter is Eddie Matthews, the long ball
hitting, left-handed hitter, third baseman from the Milwaukee Braves, hitting 306 for
the regular season, and he has 25 home runs and 59 runs batted in. The outfield will shift
over radically for him, Colomito deep in right, K-line in right center, the left fielder Minoso
has kipped it over the home playing deep, the right side of the infield, Foxman-Skowron
is also a little bit deep, almost back to the outfield grass, first pitch is outside,
high, ball one. Ball one. Stoke is a ready soldier, the fillies, and Danny Mershaw is
a pirate, Sawyer is third, Mershaw is third. Bow ball, and here's a souvenir for somebody,
almost made it to the press box. The batter in fact is landed right in front of the official
scorers, three of them, Eddie Mondale of the Chicago Sun-Time, Jack Nodding, and left-fielder
Minoso Pittsburgh, they first. Ball one strike one, now to Eddie Matthews, one away, nobody
on, no score, we're in the first inning. Third ball, front on, change speed on Matthews,
ball came to just start to slide away from him a little bit, even though Matthews is
riding left-handed, and went with the right-handed pitcher, ball one strike two, early throws
among other things, and occasional knuckler, if he gets two strikes on here like one and
two which he has now, we're all two Islamic men with it. Third ball outside, two and two,
ball two strike two, as we look straight away in the center field we see among other things
the Marty Dreyfus monument, rather than Dreyfus. There's a long hit ball, he's right, way back,
goodbye, it is a home run. Eddie Matthews in a long shot into the right field base, the
low and sand, as an action league goes out in front of the ball, game by a score of one
to nothing. Eddie Matthews took six on early-wet fastball and lined it about 15 rows in, into
the lower right field seat, about a 390 or 95 foot hope. That brings up Aaron, his teammate,
right fielder, the only all-star, elected unanimously. Aaron is hitting 370 during the
regular season with 22 home runs and 72 runs batted in, and there is strike one ball right
at the knee. Eddie Matthews loves this ball park, he hit a third of his total homers last
year in this park. Strike one to Hanks, there's a foul ball. Low seat, back to the plate,
the screen extends about halfway up to the roof, and if the foul ball is high enough,
it will clear the scene and still go into the seat. Foul hit, strike three, Aaron struck
out. That struck right in the triangle, that's two out now, Willie Mays is up, and we're
doing a little research here, we find that Eddie Matthews' very first all-star hit in
his fourth game, he finally got it, when he did it with the Dandies. Now here's Willie
Mays, Mr. Excitement, the fabulous Mr. Mays. When the Giants come into town, Ernie Banks
was not very, very lippy at all, so most valuable and less valuable, yells at Mays, here come
the Willie Mays Athletic Club. There's one right back and with, Ernie stuck up the ground,
the ball stayed in there and Mays lines out to the pitcher, three high on the side. One
run, one hit, a home run by Matthews, no ever, nobody left at the end of one full inning.
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In the batter's box, as we start the second inning for the American League, is Bill Schallrun
from Chicago and the New York Yankees, first baseman, a 293 hitter for the record this season,
the Moose has 15 homers, 56 runs batted in, Drysdale, Byers away, Lohan away, and that
is ball one. Schallrun will be followed by Colabito, Cleveland, and Triandos to Baltimore,
and Wendelup, the National League, we're in the second inning. Outfield, as they will
be for most of the day, is deep. Third round ball, first rounder of the ball game, up with
it is Johnny Temple, the protocopator, and Schallrun is out. Fairly easy chance for Johnny
Temple, the very classy second baseman for the Cincinnati Redlegs, that brings up one
of the great young potential stars of the game of baseball, Rocky Colabito. Ted Wiggins
and Schallrun tagged this fellow for future greatness as a home run hitter, Colabito is
hitting 280 right now for the record this season, he has 24 homers, 57 runs batted in,
he's 25 years old, and he also has one of the truly great throwing odds in the American
League too. Mara Lusseford, six there, four, strike one, right handed hitter, stands pretty
well forward in that batter's box, takes that long slugger's grip on the bat, Drysdale
fires, six styles high, off to the right hand up on the roof, oh and two, one away, nobody
on, the off field, straight away indeed, Rocky Colabito swings a murderous bat, try to get
a better, Drysdale slips one past him, a knee high fast curve to the outside corner, that
two down brings up Triando to the catcher, three strikeouts now for Drysdale who has
retired the first five many space, here comes Gus Triando, 267 hitter for the year, catcher
and first baseman for the Baltimore Orioles, he has 20 home runs, 50 runs batted in this
year, there they pop up in the end field, first baseman to Feta has no trouble with it and
Triando is down to retire the side, no runs, no hits, no errors, nobody left and so, at
the middle of the second inning the score is the National League, once the American
League nothing.
Well Hank Aaron is the only strikeout victim, Wynn has but I'll tell you Hank will still
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Moving into the National League half of the second inning now it's for Ernie Banks the
National League's most valuable player during the lead off, Ernie's hitting 302, has 23
homers and 76 runs batted in, shortstop and what a great ball player he is. First pitch
by Early Wedd is curve low and inside for a ball, ball one, Banks will be followed by
the first and lone, the left fielder, big swing, back on curve ball by Early, one and one, Banks
is one of the quietest of men and one of the most pleasant, he doesn't waggle at that very
much in the battered box, he really brings it through, that foul dribbles over toward
the third base dugout, where the American Leaguers are, ball one strike two, Ernie like
Hank Aaron, he's not a big man, he weighs about 175 to 178 most of the time but he has
that tremendous wrist action, that marvelous sense of timing, there's the ground ball,
back third is foul, third base umpire, Ed Runge sticks his pointed finger over the foul
line and the foul territory indicating very quickly that it was a foul ball, ball one
strike two to Banks, outfield to the left and deep, score one oh in favor of the National
League, we're in the second inning, outfield as usual to the left and deep, thanks Ben.
That's pretty well hit there to drive the left center, the base hitters going all the
way to the wall at the 406 foot mark, Ernie takes the turn and second and holds up, it's
a base hit, the left center between Minoso and Kalei for Ernie Banks, a double for Banks,
nobody out, that brings up the first baseman to Tata, Orlando, the great San Francisco
giant first baseman is a 331 hitter, 17 home runs this year, 63 runs batted in, bat on
second, nobody out, well would you have a nut here, no but, there's a very high fly
to left field, Minoso comes in for it, still running hard and finally ducks away and after
each deal the shortstop made the catch, it looked like Minoso's ball all the way and
at the last moment he teared off and little Louie went out to make that catch, in short
left field, I would guess about 270 or 80 feet from the plate, here's the left fielder
Wally Moon, traded from St. Louis to Los Angeles this year, Wally's a 299 here having a very
good go, he has 5 home runs, 37 runs batted in, bat on second, one away, service low, ball
one, one of the best plays is triple deck, the right field area however is double deck
but that's second deck, it's sure a tall second deck, foul off to the left out of play, Wally
Moon, one of the left field starting jobs in a very hotly contested collection, Wally,
Wade, Moon, Triathlete, number 9 on the back of his, white home for the ball, the national
league is the home ball club, the right side of the field is pretty deep, Nelson Fox backs
up there pretty deep, a left handed hitter, when takes plenty of time, glances over his
shoulder, second turns and throws, the pitch is outside, the count is now ball two strike
one on both, Danny Murdoch clapping his hands, yelling encouragement there from his third
base coach, Fox, Zinom Mehdi Sawyer, the first base coach, manager of the Philadelphia Phillies,
was able to forget his own problem a little bit today and concentrate on the problems
of Fred Haney, ball two strike one, strike two, that's curve ball just above the knees
to the outside corner, two and two now, for the ball game is one and nothing in favor of
the national league, we're in the second inning, banks let off the second inning here with
a two base, this is a beta popped up and Moon is at bat, one on and on second, people still
coming into the foul part, with those red rubbers, set, they'll wind up the scores,
throws, pitch is fouled, that's way out of play, a souvenir for somebody, ball two strike
two now to Wally Moon, Wally had a tough job when he came into baseball a few years ago,
he had to fill the shoes at St. Louis left by the great Ennis Slaughter and there was
a lot of ill feeling when they got the Slaughter away and Moon was taking the place of an
idol, Wally not only did it capably, he wound up being named rookie of the year and he's
been a standout ball player ever since, he had one dip there in his career but right
at this meta he's back on top again, flirting with a 300 batting average and good enough
to play in the All-Star game, here's the set now by Wynn, blats the second, turns and throws,
the curve is low, over the place but low, Barnick leaves that right hand down at his
side, it's ball three, strike two, one thing about it, you never have any doubt about it,
strike if Al Barnick is umpiring, he throws that right hand out there and he follows all
over the ballpark, there's nothing subtle about him and for that reason he is considered
quite a capable umpire, for that reason among many, many others, ball three, strike two,
out the old still, pretty deep, just about straight away, that curve is outside and Wally
Moon has worked Wynn for a long, that's what's meant on first and second, one away and brings
up catcher, Del Randall, Randall hitting 277, has a dozen home runs this year and 39 runs
about it and he's a real leader, a real field leader, he's one of those guys who made the
jump from play ball to the major leagues and has struck ever since, he came up with the
Boston Braves, where the Boston Braves instead of Milwaukee Braves and Del has got a real
leader's side, if you want, there's a foul, out of play, umpire next, strike one. Randall
in his lifetime in the major, he's down his ninth year, the 250 hitter, this doesn't sound
too impressive but if you'll double check his history you'll find that he's got that
one hit for every four official trips to play most of the time when it counted quite a bit,
so get that hit one, it'll break your back, there's a curve ball inside, he swings and
misses, 0 and 2, great handler of pitchers, great hustler and strictly a leader's side,
0 and 2. Warming up in the full fence of the American Leaguers is Buc Bailey on the Kansas
City Athletics, left hander, muckle baller, 0 and 2, foul, back up into the screen on
the curve ball, still a no ball, strike two count on Randall, banks on second, Wally
pulled on first, 1 to nothing ball game in favor of the National League, we are in the
second inning at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, a very, very famous location which as Bob
Prince told you is now enjoying its 50th anniversary, a very impressive setting like Wrigley Field
has a lot of eyes on the outfield wall.
Strike three call, a neat curve, Randall looked it over and was crossed up, 2 down, 2 on and
the pitcher Drysdale comes to bat, now Drysdale is one of the better hitting pitchers, he'll
hit that home run for you every once in a while although, thanks for being a young fellow
who got himself a record number of homers for a pitcher last year as pre-hits year, he
was used as a pitch hitter for the first time the other night while not hitting into a double
play much to his embarrassment.
John Drysdale got a fine hand as he walked out towards the batter's box, banks on second,
Wally Moad on first, 2 out, Drysdale was high school quarterback, should have made a good
one, it would have been 5, Bob Hall, strike one, matter of fact Don was given quite a
few opportunities to play college football and at one time did have his eye on a professional
football career and as a quarterback, a 6 foot 5 quarterback under today's very tenuous
professional football requirements he might have fit the bill very well.
Young man from Van Nuys, California, this is out in the valley now, the San Fernando Valley,
there's a swing, 0 and 2, when the gauge pitchers, take a look at how many he struck out as opposed
to how many he has walked, if you want to do that with Drysdale you've got a pretty impressive
figure because this fellow has struck out 133 and walked only 44 men this year, earned
an average of 3.23. 0 and 2, we're going to miss, Wendgottum with that very very big curveball
of his and that retires the side, 3 strikeouts early now in two in Hingley, no runs, one hit
a lead off double by Banks, no errors, 2 men left, Wally Moad walks and so at the end of
the second inning the score is the National League won, the American League nothing.
Well leading off in the third inning will be Johnny Temple, one of those National Leaguers
get a chance to bat and they're half of this inning, right up the American League in this
road. You know you can put Johnny down at just another big league star who's all up
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get the yellow label, get the yellow label. Arvin Kelleber leading off in the third inning
just taking a whack at the first pick and has popped up to the shortstop and that's
one away and brings up the shortstop Aparicio. One on down and Aparicio the very, very excellent
shortstop of the White Sox taking a ball on a fastball outside. Check that Willie May
has came in as Banks the purple went out and made the catch on Kelleber's fly ball out
back to second base. Willie will do that. There's a fly ball out the right center field,
Aaron moving over, Hank is there, he takes it, Aparicio is out. Two down and we're probably
going to get a pitch hitter. Verzat is warming up by the way for the National League. No sir,
early winners in the bathroom stuff. We saw it, we saw it, Suri along the bat rack there
in the American League. Although Early is a pretty good hitter himself. When he was with
the Washington Senators one time he had a separate club in his contract with Clark Griffiths
calling for X dollars as a pitch hitter. Early is 111 and lost five. Earned on average is
3.83 at this point in the regular season. Won 260 major league games, 20th in the list
of all time winners. Drysdale throws up that one, that one, strike one. The score is one
to nothing in favor of the National League. We're in the third inning now with the American
League, the visiting ball club at bat. Two out, nobody on. Strike, oh it's two. Drysdale
is reminiscent of Yule Blackwell, the famous whip that's tied on delivery of his. It's
almost a clock fire pitch that's blowing inside. Ball one, strike two. Frankie Frisch once said
about Blackwell and I think he's saying today about this fellow that there should be a law
against his being allowed to pitch that way to right handed hitters. One and two. Way
outside, two and two. He'll throw that jammer at these left handers, he'll throw it right
at their fists. At the 25 it is, it's thrown with almost a screwball motion. But it isn't
a screwball. Strike, win, goes on swinging, throws the bat down angrily. No runs, no hits,
no errors, nobody left and Drysdale has retired nine in a row and has struck out four of them.
Three balls hit out of the infield on him. A marvelous performance. And so at the middle
of the third inning the score is the National League won, the American League nothing. Well
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Temple leading off in the third. And there's a strike call knee high, up that outside corner,
strike one to Temple, who's out of the ball game with a fly ball to K-line center field.
Well, Sangl's got Ryan Dernan warming up now, it has Haley. One and one. Ball one strike
one to Temple. He'll be followed by Matthew, whose home run represents the only scoring
in the ball game so far. Then the right fielder, Aaron, wins. Let's go. There's a high fly
ball into short right center. Colomito is there and he takes it. Temple is out. One
away, that'll bring up third baseman Eddie Mattson. Got a home run, a line drive homer
into the right field grandstand. The lower back, last time in fact, getting a nice hand
as he steps in. Eddie Mattson with 25 regular season home runs. The batter's box again,
wins so there's a very high fly ball in foul territory. Garland pulls over to the low boxes,
he takes it and Matthew is out. Two down, Hanger and a tank, struck out the last time
in fact, getting a fabulous 370. After a long time, after the season opened this year, it
became eminent that Hank had his eyes on a 400 season he may still have. Of course, the
outstanding pitching feat in the history of this series is still Carl Hummel's 1934 performance
when he struck out five in a row, six all told. The total of six strikes out to the
record which is subsequently been tied by Johnny Vandermeer in 1943 in a night game
at Philadelphia and Larry Jansen at Comiskey Park in 1950. We saw both games.
Curveball, going on. Line drive right into the shortstop club.
Aparicio just reached up for that one and little Lily took it, tire the side.
No runs, no hits, no errors, nobody left.
And at the end of the third inning the score is the National League won the American League nothing.
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The ball game now is moving into the fourth inning and Luberdet is the new pitcher.
Luberdet will pitch starting the fourth inning. Both Wynn and Drysdale finish their chores.
Early Wynn who was last year's winning pitcher leaves with a 1-0 deficit.
He made one mistake, he pitched that home run ball to Eddie Matthews. Drysdale made not.
Now here's Luberdet, one of the great, great pitchers of his day.
A fellow who has had more great adventures and more great accomplishments in his years than the National League
then we have the time to tell you about right now.
Lu in the regular season has won 11-11 at Los Angeles.
He comes into the small game for the regular season average of earned an average of 4.01.
He has struck out 49 and won only 22.
Melvin Lewis-Bernett Jr. from Mackrow, West Virginia, 6'2", weighs 180.
He scored down there at 19-26 on November 22nd. In a couple of World Series,
who can forget that 57th performance 21-3 and lost nuts.
Top of the batting order up now for the American League,
Mini Minoso of the Cleveland Indians, left fielder, a 297 winner with 13 homers and 51 runs batted in.
In the regular season, he's going to lead off. He'll be followed by Vox and Kalei.
Mini is one of the most colorful of all players, certainly one of the great hunters of his day.
He'll give 120% of himself at all times.
1-0 to score now at the top of the fourth National League out in front and Bernett gets that.
See how he strikes like one.
Bernett is a real fidgety fill out there.
He really gestures and goes through lots and lots of adding connections
and talks to himself too, by the way.
He'll whistle once in a while. You can hear him automatically whistling out there.
And like he told us one time, he says, yes, you bet your life I talk to myself out there.
And if things aren't going right, I answer myself too.
1-1 is the count on Minoso.
There's the ground ball to the right of the mound.
Temple in for it.
Temple picks himself up and throws.
In time, you get Minoso who is really picking him up and laying him down that first baseline.
Temple with great reflex action recovered from stumbling after going for that ball.
One away, box up.
Little Nell strung out the last time at bat.
One out, nobody on. Four sitting.
Yopfield channels up a little on Foxy and they're playing him just about straight away.
He'll hit any field.
That fast curve was a little outside off the corner, maybe an inch.
Ball one. Our vantage point is perfect.
We're directly behind home plate. We can see those pins coming in beautifully.
We're just high enough so that we have just a beautiful perspective on everything that goes on down there.
There's a foul ball down the right field side and it gives John Rice, the American League, a little work.
Ball one, strike one.
Wally Moo, Willie Mays, and Hank Aaron at left, center, and right for the National Leaguers on the field right now.
Eddie Matthews, the third, Banks is short.
Johnny Temple is second. Orlando Cepeda is first.
The batter is Bethette and Crandall.
One and one.
There's a high foul ball and Eddie Matthews has a play on this one.
Back to the coaches box and third. He takes it.
Nelson Fox is out.
Two down, K lineup.
Burnett will throw an occasional screwball, and you can tell when he's throwing that screwball because he runs right off the mound with that delivery.
This is Al K-line, struck out.
Kill the time up.
Has a pretty good battle going with his teammate on Detroit, Harvey Keene, for the American League batting leadership.
Right at this moment, Al is second with a 3.44 batting average.
Strike one on the count on him. Two out on the fourth inning.
Burnett touches the cap, sticks the ball in the glove, tears down, gets his side, goes into his motion, throws a sidearm, hits the slow.
One and one.
Crandall fires the ball back to him, and he has so many, many times.
And Lou steps off that mound.
Just to give you an idea, we'll try to cover this guy's judges for you.
He just wraps his hand across his letter, pick up the ruts, back ground, and he's covered his tongue in his cap.
Rocks back twice, winds up, here we go, and that's low. That's ball.
Gets the ball, turns his back to the plate, touches his left hand across his left hip.
Now he wraps up the ball as he steps off the mound, turns around, looks down at the batter and the catcher.
Takes the glove under his arm, takes the glove under his arm, takes it back on, takes the glove and it's tucked in his cap.
Makes a motion toward his chin, tucked in his cap again after dropping the rousin back, hits his shoulder,
throws the wind up out of his direction, and there's the pitch of Bob Wall on a play. Two and two.
Ball two, strike two.
And of course as Lou claims, the best pitch he has is one he doesn't use, the one he's been accused of is better.
Tucks the rousin back, touches the cap.
Little battle of nerves going on there between the batter and the pitcher.
Here's the wind up. Throws the shot a little bit off the corner.
Side of the knees, ball three, strike two. Two out on the fourth.
The National League is leading by a score of one to nothing.
The American League is back, K-line in the batter's box.
And Lou Bordet goes through every motion a pitcher can go through plus a couple which haven't been put in the book yet.
Let's go again. Let's reply. There's a foul ball high back of the plate.
It goes over the top of the screen and the below seats back of the screen. It's ball three, strike two.
Just over the wall we're looking at Cheneley Park.
And we had heard about the monument to Honest Wagoners, but we thought the monument was inside the ballpark.
It's just outside the left field wall over there in Cheneley Park in front of the Carnegie Museum.
Three and two. Off the old just a shade left. There's a pretty well hit ball.
That's very deep. Way back, back, back, back. It is over the wall. A home run for Al K-line.
The ball game is all tied up. Al K-line runs one over the left field wall.
Lou never did give up on it. Went all the way back to the wall.
But finally with his shoulders raising the wall all he could do was stand there and helplessly watch the ball go over the wall
for a game tying home run by Al K-line.
Well, that makes the new ball game out of us. The score is one to one.
We're in the fourth inning and Scholarin is up. Bill Scholarin.
Routed out, temple dissipated the last time and pass.
Bill by the way wears a corset at all times on and off that diamond.
Result of a back injury. Helping around the house. There's the foul ball.
Strike one.
That's Mr. Al K-line first all-star home run.
Strike one to Scholarin. Two out, nobody on.
Foul ball. Oh and to Scholarin first game to our attention.
Chicago has a prep school, Weber High football player and we knew him at Purdue as a left footed putter.
Already got a chance to join the Yankees and get one of those real good-sized bonuses.
$25,000 bonus.
Oh and to. There's the foul ball. In the hole between Scholarin and Scholarin.
Two out, Colavito is up.
Well the national league fishing had retired 11 in a row before that first hit and the first hit was a home run.
Bob Colavito is up.
Struck out the last time at bat. Bat on base, two out.
Right-handed hitter, as we said before, stands well forward in that box. He likes to get on that curve ball before he gets a chance to break on him.
And there's the swing and there's a base hit at the center field.
About three feet to the left of second base, William A. is munching the ball in.
Scholarin stopping at second. Now with that on first and second, Triangles is done. Two down.
And in the bullpen for the national leaguer, Dad Roy Faith. And he says his offense in the action in this game is beginning to warm up.
In the meantime, Triangles is out to have a little talk with Berndette. They've been in this hole before.
Triangles, the catcher for the American leaguers, the Big Burley fellow. Bob Shirley's partner, they have an insurance business together in Baltimore.
He's in the batter's box, takes that wide stand. Gus has 20 regular season home runs.
Now he's in bat with a chance to put the American league in the lead. It's one to one here, three-fourth inning.
Two men out and two out. Berndette is in a jam.
The outfield is plenty to eat for Gus. Center fielder Mays, dated a little toward left. There's a strike.
There's a strike one. That's curve ball. Just below the belt about two inches inside the strike zone, inside corner.
Strike one.
Gowland and Colomito with modest leadoff. Gowland takes about a five-step of their second.
Now he's second at the seven. As Berndette gets ready here at the pitch, there's a well-hit ball.
He's to right center. Aaron and Mays running hard. It is dropped by Hank Aaron.
Boy, did Henry make himself a running catch that time. That ball was hit over 400 feet.
Deep to right center field. And Hank Aaron pulled it in with a long and who knows, maybe a game-saving run.
One run, three hits, no errors. Two men left on.
And close to the middle of the fourth inning, the score is American League One, National League One.
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We have a new picture now for the American League, Ryan Durin.
Here's the flamethrower for the New York Yankees.
It's done it with six flasks, and he fires that ball. Man does he fire that ball.
You'll face Willie Mays, thanks to Fata.
Durin in the regular season has won one and lost two.
He's strictly a relief pitcher, but get this earned run average, 0.90.
Struck out 47, walked 22. Willie Mays, lined out to pitch an early win the last time at Fata's under-batter clock.
Here's a wide up, here's a throw, and there's a wolf ball, hung on, strike one.
The score is tied 1-1.
This is the first chance that many people here in Pittsburgh have had to see the American League stars who are performing today.
They've heard about this Durin fastball. You can probably hear the gas that went through the crowd.
On that first pitch, strike one.
Strike two, another fastball. Knee high to the outside corner.
Willie Mays raises the right eyebrow as he looks out there at Durin.
0-2. 0-2.
1-1 ball game. Mays has met with the National Leaguers in the home half of the fourth inning. Outfield, plenty deep.
Here we go. Fastball, a little outside. Three fastballs to Willie. Ball one, strike two.
One and two.
Center fielder Kalei about three steps to the left. Everybody else is straight away.
Willie went for a low outside fastball and struck out.
Well, everybody seems to have brought that strikeout pitch to the ballpark with them today.
Early Wicks struck out from three. One, two, three, and here's three innings.
Durin has struck out the first man to face them.
And Drysdale struck out four in three innings.
Three banks who let off the second inning with a double end dive on second base.
We're going to that now. One out.
Fastball is low. Over the place is low.
Question, why did Fred Haney strike to that bank's fifth and batting order and Mays fourth?
The answer was that Haney's logic might be a little bit on the pessimistic side.
Well, in case they get a sound order in the first inning, Mays will be a bad person.
If he gets on base, he can run better than banks and I'll have a good base runner with banks up.
Ball two, two and O.
As it turned out, Mays batted in the first inning because Matthew built it a home run.
So that meant the fourth man in the batting order came up and Ernie did lead off the second inning.
And as I said, the 40 doubled. Ball two, foul ball.
Ball two, strike one. That one's high. Back of the plate. Over the screen for the upper deck.
Ball two, strike one. So far it's been a pitcher's day except for the two lightning-like thrusts offensively.
One on each team. The home run ball, one by Kalei, one by Matthew. That's the story at this point.
That had a foul. High. Back of the plate. This side's it.
And some customer leads so far over the upper deck trying to get that one that I for a moment wondered if he might not tumble out.
Ball two, strike two.
Two and two. American League has three hits and National League two in this ballgame, which is in the fourth inning.
Two and two.
Duran, for the side of the piano, winds up.
Another bat handle foul.
In the side pitch. Ball two, strike two.
Well, the relief pitching, per se, on both sides is really very promising. What with Duran,.90 and Roy Facer's.83.
Two and two.
A little close. Nearly nicked him. Ball three, strike two.
You have to be a brave man to take a total against this Duran.
Ball three, strike two. As a matter of fact, I remember Franklin one time telling me and another reporter that as far as he was concerned, hitting is 60 percent courage in baseball.
That's another baseball man sent there to verify that percentage.
There's a deep foul on the right field side, curving back into low seats. Ball three, strike two.
You have to crowd that place. You have to guard it. Otherwise, if that pitcher moves you too far back into the batter's box there, he'll tip one across that outside corner and it'll be a strike that'll still be beyond the end of your bat.
Ball three, strike two.
Ernie Banks the batter. Marvelous reflexes. Great miss. Eye over his head. And that's ball four. And had there been somebody on base that would have been a wild pitch. Banks draws a walk.
That is the second walk given to an American leaguer. Wally Moon got one on the second inning. And that brings up the first baseman to say that.
Copped up to short step Aparicio and short left the last time at bat.
Second walk given to a national leaguer by an American leaguer, as I was saying.
Down ball to left second. Over with it. Aparicio steps on second and throws the first in time. And that kills off the side.
Aparicio moving to his left. Completing the double play, forcing Banks and doubling up the play to no runs, no hits, no errors, nobody left to see. End of the fourth inning, the score is still one to one.
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The ball game is moving into the top of the fifth inning and leading off is going to be Killibrew, third baseman, 271 hitter who leads the American League in homers and runs batted in. A young fellow who's emerged as a new star on the baseball horizon. He has 28 homers and 70 runs batted in. Young fellow built up strong shoulders working a film ground for a couple of years while he was in high school.
And who has the unusual distinction of being scouted by a United States Senator who counted the Senators on him and sure enough the Senator from Idaho was right. Mr. Killibrew turned out to be a very good idea.
Burdette goes one and that is ball one as the fifth inning gets underway. American League advanced. The ball game tied one to one. Killibrew will be followed by Amparicio and then Duran. Top field of the left team. There's a ground ball passed to the left of second bank.
The right side bank goes over bank that way. And fires the first at time. Boy that looks like it had a good chance to get past Ernie. But he just gave it that extra oomph toward the end of that stretch and got his match. One out, Amparicio up.
Rui Amparicio. Getting 291, five homers this year which is quite a few for Little Louie. 30 more runs batted in, a little fed up down in Venezuela. Donald Fadden is really in love with this guy.
To the bottom on the right the last time at bat. Fitzgerald Burdette. Ball one. Just a hand of the notes from Bob that Senator Welker from Idaho who's got Killibrew for once and also got Law for Pittsburgh running long.
Ball one. Knee high curve ball strike. One and one. Game tied one to one. Nationally with a homer by Matthews for the first. The American League match to put K-Lines in the fourth.
The American has out hit the national in the first four running three to two. One away. Louie Amparicio, eight men in the batting order.
One on curve. One on. There's a fly ball back to left field. That back's while he's moving up. He's near the wall and he pulls it in about 10 feet away from that 406 foot mark in left field.
Amparicio giving it a pretty good ride. Two down. Duran the pitcher is up.
Like I say you don't take a toehold against a Duran too often. And he's been accused of throwing that duster as other pitchers have too.
But he claims the fourth. He doesn't throw the duster purposely. He may throw a brush back pitch but as it was explained to me one time it's not really a duster unless your head goes one way and the back goes the other.
Strike one now. Duran swings on strike two. Burdett flipping a curve pass. Demo and two. They're playing in the swing late.
Willie May is the center fielder. He's shaded over towards right center. Oh and two. Two out. Nobody on. Fifth inning.
Tried to butt. Missed it. Duran struck out and that retires the side. No runs. No hits. No errors. Nobody left.
Well that's the halfway point in the ball game. And the score at the middle of the fifth inning is American League one, the National League one.
Well let's see Harvey Keene stretching that dugout. He'll probably get in the ball game too. You know in Harvey's seven years in the majors he's been chosen on six all-star teams.
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Well right at this minute I'm going to turn a very exciting ball game of one to one. Over for the last half of this broadcast to my very good friends the very popular announcer for KDK and Pittsburgh here.
Follows these pirates, man and boy now for more years than I expect he wants to admit. Bob Prince. Bob come on in here will you.
Thank you very much Jack and a wonderful call on the great first half of this ball game and it looks as though now it's going to be the long ball or the explosiveness of it that will get us determined one way or the other.
Wally Moon who is not at all adverse to the long ball and who has found the left field wall at the Coliseum of very friendly saying it's only two hundred and fifty feet away now goes to left field a lot for some of his homers and extra base hit will be the man.
And we have a change in the umpiring Joe Paparello of the American League will come to the plate and Al Barlich will now move to the other side on the diamond and we will move around with Barlich, Paparello, Donatelli and Ed Runge with Crawford and Rice on the line.
And we're waiting the occasion of the delay is that they're waiting for Barlich to get rid of the equipment as the National League always uses the inside chest protector with the exception of Jack O'Connor.
The American League goes for the inflated chest protector and they're ready to go much quicker so they're giving Al Barlich the opportunity to take it off.
Wally Moon is one of the five fellows that ever hit a home run in the history of this game over the right field pavilion at Falks Field.
It's three hundred feet down the immediate line. All dots do better than four hundred feet. It's a triple deck to fair.
While it's double deck in right field it's exactly the same height as though it had to be. They just don't have the triple deck all the way up there.
But it's a good ninety to a hundred feet. Here's Al Barlich.
So as he comes out we'll be ready to go in a moment. You know in just about a month from now August 3rd will be exact.
The second Major League All-Star game of the year will be played in the Los Angeles Coliseum and I'm sure you fans out on the West Coast are anxious to see those great stars in action.
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This is Wally Moon. He walked his first time up Ryan Duren, a strong right hander, a swing and a miss strike one.
Moon has been told you're one of the five men to ever hit a home run over the right field pavilion, the other being five-skinner of Pittsburgh and Ted Beard.
Mickey Mantle, the Yankees, and an exhibition and Babe Ruth. The Babe was the first to do it and there's quite a story about that.
Wally Moon, nothing in one. Ryan Duren, caught that right arm fire, the fastball down inside, one and one.
The Babe hit his last three home runs of his illustrious home run career, number 712 on the lower deck for Boston, 713 upper deck, and 714 the last he was to ever strike.
Went out of here over everything. One ball, one strike to Wally Moon. Duren comes down with a fast one.
Moon a check swing fouls off to the left side down to the bleachers, so it's a count of one and two.
The on deck batter is catcher Dale Crandall. Doors tied at one-one.
The National League bang in with a pair of hits, a home run by Matthews and a double by Fank.
And the American League in with three hits, a home run by Kailon, and singles then followed by Skowin and Calabito. No further damage.
In the National League fifth inning, one ball to strike pitch from Ryan Duren.
Left hand batting Wally Moon watches one up around the bill of the cap, two-two.
In spring training a couple of years ago, Ryan Duren was pitching against the Milwaukee Braves, and Henry Aaron saw the first four warm-up pitches, three of which climbed the screen a hundred feet behind home plate.
Aaron said, if it's all right with you, we'll not bat today. Walked right out of there. Two balls, two strikes to Moon.
Duren, a double pump this time, hangs it outside, three and two.
That ball is stayed away from left hand batting Moon.
Left fielder Minimanoso is playing a very shallow left fielder, Wally, and they give him a little bit of a gap in right center.
As Kailon is off to his right, they don't figure that Moon will be able to pull any of Ryan Duren.
But three balls and two strikes, the big pitch on the way. He's stuck him out, and it was a swinging strikeout. That's the second strikeout for Duren, the fifth against the National Leaguers this afternoon.
Giles Dale has racked up the best strikeout record for the Nationals when he's navigated three perfect innings, striking out four along the roof.
Katja Del Crandall, strikeout sixth, amendment second.
Here's the pitch.
Delivery, gun down, third base side, and Killibrew comes up on his first offering, throws on to first baseman Moose Cowell and Crandall down two away.
The batter two up there is pitcher Lou Bordet.
Nobody has yet made a move from the National League dugout, which here in Fort Field is this one.
Here comes Lou. He's the only guy that runs right out of that dugout. He comes up the point.
Jack was telling you earlier about what a fine home run hitting pitcher Giles Dale was, this boy is too. Lou Bordet.
His father was the horseshoe pitching champion down in West Virginia, and he taught Lou how to do it. Lou controlled 15, 16 ringers in a row.
He's quite an all-around athlete and a great comedian.
Straight out at the outfield to him, the gap in left mid air, swing on the Durance curve, and he doesn't get it, oh, and one.
Short side at one, one, and the fifth inning, two down, none on.
National League is the home team and, of course, wearing their white uniforms of their respective teams.
Big number 33, made famous in the World Series a couple years ago, with three tremendous victories over the 80s.
Here's the on one, two, Lou.
Durance gets another fast one on the corner that Bordet can't even handle.
No strike, no ball, two strikes.
Early win, started for the American Lakers, went for a hill out to one run with Matthew Holman.
Two hits, second hit by Banks, the devil, Herman.
And now it's Durance on. Here's the oh and two-two Bordet.
Check, swing, foul off to the right, just guarding the plate with two strikes on him.
Just flick it off to the right side.
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It's been delayed once as a result of rain, and it was an official game in Philadelphia at the end of five.
Other than that, they usually have the fine success here at the Missouli Classic.
Here's the oh-two pitch, another boiling, quick swing off to the right, fouling it out of play.
Oh and two, Bordet just taking it back, putting it down into the strike zone, as Durance is in that strike zone and has the two strikes.
Durance is just flunking at it a little bit, hoping he can get a little better shot with some good wood.
Two down, none on in the national fifth inning, one-one ball game.
Oh-two pitch, got it down, foul it third.
Al Bartek is now the third-base umpire, as Paparilla has come to the plate.
Adonatelli of the National League and Ed Runge of the American League remain on the face pads with him,
and on the foul line is John Rice of the American League on the right field line, and Shag Crawford of the National League on the left field line.
No balls, he tracks to Bordet.
During work, Sandy got him on a strikeout as he jammed him right on the fifth.
So it turned out three-up, three-down, and at the end of five, the score is American League one to the National League one.
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The National Baseball Writers' Chapter of America, Mr. Lester Biedemann of the Pittsburgh Threats,
and the official scorer, along with Jack Herner of the Post Gazette and Edmund Zell of Chicago, have announced the paid attendance, 34,763.
This is not the largest attendance available to Ford Field, but under the laws of the Commissioner of Baseball,
you do not sell the standing room only or get people on the field.
The only way they ever got up over 40,000 here at Ford Field in Pittsburgh was by allowing them one time to stand around the field and put in the ground a little double.
That has not been in existence now for quite some time.
This is the field where they played the last tripleheader of baseball, where the bus were scurrying to get through.
This is the field where one of the most memorable World Series events ever took place in 1925 in the seventh game against Washington with Walter Johnson pitching.
In a scene that perhaps has never been seen before and never will be again in a downright driving rain pour, bases loaded bingo double and they beat Johnson in the center.
Here's Miniman ofso, he's 0 for 2.
Fly to center and then Burdett faced him in the fourth, got him on a roll out to second, jams him on the inside corner with a call strike, 0 and 1.
Harry Krabs of Kansas City at first base, Tony Criccionello on the white socks at third.
Miniman ofso, Nelly Fox and Al Kalan, the trio that Burdett will go through here in the sixth.
Miniman ofso pops a foul off the right side, I don't think there's room for Randall, there is not, it's up over the National League dugout.
Tumble to strike.
Pittsburgh riders and fans have had their wonderful, wonderful times with Casey Stengel, having seen him around here and listened to him.
Stengelisms are famous now I suppose and we're all over.
And he got off a couple of mutes in the press conference yesterday.
Miniman ofso, the American League's left fielder, 0 for 2, on the count of 0 and 2 on him, sidearm delivery sent in by Burdett, fell away.
The attendance here today of 34,763 will not of course approach the record attendance of 69,831 which was set in Cleveland in 1935,
which may be a cliff target third on the west coast in the Coliseum in Los Angeles.
It of course having a greater capacity.
No balls and six strikes. Flights are to mind all you fans out on the west coast.
Application forms for the second all-star game available at the Dodger ticket office.
No balls, two strikes to Miniman ofso.
Jack Bricott was pointing out earlier a lot of the records with regards to the number of games in which he's competed will go by the wayside.
The number of times he's played in the Miniman ofso right down the middle came Burdett with his match ball for strike three calls.
So that's the sixth strikeout and Burdett has picked up his second.
That'll bring up Kelly Fox who struck out and fouled out the third.
As Jack pointed out if they start playing these games in pairs the records of like being in one like New Zealand 16 or so will mean nothing.
Six strikes out on each side because you can in five years you can play in ten games very quickly obviously.
Kelly Fox struck out, bats them left handed, swings golf a shot on the right side,
Tipple charges, takes the bat, hop and blows onto Sepeda and they're at two away.
This is the American League six inning two down and none on and the score is tied up at one one if you're just sitting in.
Eddie Matthews long ball went out of the ballpark off early when in the first inning
and Kline got it all even with a blast to left center in the fourth.
Here he is now, he struck out in the first and homered over the 4.06 mark in left center field in the fourth inning.
Drop off down third and Matthews on a bubble and he gets away from him, goes into short left and Kline is around first.
The ball is recovered quickly by Wally Moon and it's Panora charged to Eddie Matthews and it'll be the first error of the ballgame.
Kline aboard on a miscue at third and that'll bring up the slugging first baseman and half fielder of the New York Yankees, Moose Schuyen.
Schuyen on the year at 293, 15 homers, 56 RBIs, rolled a second and swindled out to the left.
Milwaukee Braves have four other great players going in this one right now.
Here's the pitch, here's the delivery outside of ball, breaking ball that missed the outside corners of the right hand batting Moose.
Matthews at third, Burdett and Chandler the batterie and the right fielder the incomparable Henri Aron.
Sixth inning for the American Leaguers who have won the last two games of the All-Star Classic.
Burdett checks the livers, there's a drive and the right center going to get in there for the basehead coming over fast to get that ball as Wally made.
He's going to take a shot at that runner coming over to third, a slide fake made it the close play.
K-line tries to go on Wally and it was bang bang at third. He's in there however under the fly.
Gowans got a looper over the head of Temple in the right center field at K-line.
It appeared to me he hesitated just a little bit coming around second and then really turned on the seed and Wally's throw was right to Matthews.
But he split under the throw so we now have Rocky Cotter Vito up there for the American Leaguers.
He struck out in the second, he's single up the middle in the fourth and the American Leaguers mount another offensive threat against Luberdett.
Two on and two out, here's the pitch. Big chop hit on the left side.
Ernie Banks wakes for the short half, flips it on to Johnny Temple in a forced scour and on the fourth side, left side is retired.
No runs, one hit, one error and two left and we go at the, so at the end, at the middle of the sixth inning, the score is American League one and the National League one.
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The American League has now swung Mickey Mantle to center field.
As he goes in, in place of Al Kailin, Mickey Mantle with a bad leg.
But the New York Yankee speed demon goes to center field.
Zick Power has not been put in at first. We're getting a double check.
We're trying to find out who's been put in at first, the Platinum Fire, Ed Runge, or rather Joe Paparilla has come on to say that there is an incorrect statement made
as to who's on Musial is going to be in here to bat in the National League sixth inning.
And this puts him up there for 16 times that he's been in the Classic and he'll bat in place of Temple.
Harvey Keane has gone to center and is not Mickey Mantle. So we'll have to go from the direction on the press box.
There's delivery to Musial inside. Dan Musial batting for John Temple.
Temple getting away at a big snap.
From DeNora, Pennsylvania, marked by the city of Pittsburgh, staying the man.
Great St. Louis Cardinal ballplayer. Ryan Dorn works to him upstairs, ball to two balls in those strikes.
The press box, who had originally announced farther to our right that it would be Mantle and Satterfield,
has now corrected and it'll be Harvey Keane, teammate of Al Kailah.
Musial hits a pop-up on the right side, dropping back first baseman for it.
And we'll have to check who that. It should be Zick Power, who has also gone in in place of Skowra.
Anyhow, it's a pop-up to first.
Satter is now at a Matthews, a home run in two and bats.
In the first, over the right field screen, and in the third, fouled out the first.
One down in the National League six, high from Ryan Dorn, who after he pitches just bounces around out there on the mound like he's on a Pogo stick.
Eddie Sawyer, one of the few members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, is coaching at first.
And of course the manager of the field, over to third, Danny Mertau.
One ball, no strike pitch to Matthews.
Started to go for the fast ball late off it, it cuts him one and one.
Henry Ernest on deck.
There's all sorts of opportunities for a single to place the batter's Keane and Power in the batting order,
so we'll not worry about just where they are yet until they come up. There they fall upstairs, two and one, Eddie.
Matthews on the year 25 homers, 59 home runs.
Five of the home runs he has struck in this ballpark this year.
This has been one of his favorite targets, much to the lament of Pittsburgh Pirate followers.
Two balls and a strike.
The outfield changed him around to the right to give him a big gap in left center field.
Dorn's fast ball hit foul back on the netting here, an account of 2-2.
Ryan almost overpowered Eddie with a good riding fast ball that came in there.
Chuck him out swinging. Number seven goes into the book.
And here is Henry Ernest who struck out and aligned a short in his first two trips.
The Milwaukee Braves on the rail of the right field in one of the most fantastic batters in baseball,
modern handles, stayed way up over the 400 mark and somebody figured it out that if he went to the plate
a number of times, just a month ago as he did last year, finished out the season that way,
once before he'd end up hitting 322.
There's Henry Ernest a drive over the shortstop position into left field.
I know so, a flag bubble, but picks it up and holds it to a single.
Henry Ernest has picked up the third hit of the afternoon for the National League and here's the say hey kid, Willie May.
Willie Hayden lined to the pitcher and struck out.
Henry Ernest is on the threat, one of the most fabled of all ball players, Willie May.
Throw it over to first base, no damage, Henry Ernest staying a little close over there with a big power holding touch.
Ryan Duren checks in here. In the 1-1 game the pitch is cut foul, back out of play.
Henry Ernest was a key figure in the now famous Harvey Haddock perfect ball game when he inadvertently
showed off second thinking that Adcock had only hit an inside ball inside the park in the 13th inning
and in so doing he walked by Adcock and his nullified a home run.
Two balls and a strike, here's the pitch, there's a smash and one hop off the chest of Amparicio,
picks it up, gets it on in time for the force play to Fox and a nice play by Amparicio holding that ball in front of him.
So it's no runs or hits, no errors and one left. At the end of sixth it's tied up 1-1.
Throw it short, field short, feed short, the only way to get a feed save is to let, is to let, save to let.
We've had a corrected attendance here from Les Biedemann, 35,277 and the correction occurred as a result of those not seeing the direct ticket sale, 35,277.
The original attendance figure of 34,763 were given as a result of a turnstile count.
Well ladies and gentlemen here comes the public who has rocked the baseball world, Elroy Faith.
And it is fantastic that his earned run average is 0.83.
Elroy has been in 54 innings, has won 12 and lost none and has not lost a ball against him.
May 30, 1958 has won 17 consecutive games.
Elroy Faith goes in there and Bill Masurasky goes to second base. Triandos up, he's 0-2.
Elroy delivers up there at the ball. Triandos in the fourth inning as Jack Brickhouse pointed out, hit a shot in the right center field and only the great running speed of Henry Aaron flagged it down to prevent a couple of runs coming in.
Triandos has won off the end of the best foul.
Bill Masurasky is in at second base in place of John Temple, it's usual having batted for him.
Elroy Faith works through Triandos.
This fella throws the fourth ball, a good slider, good curveball and a fine fastball.
One ball, one strike to Gus Triandos, the Baltimore catcher.
The ground ball hits down toward third. Big hop up Eddie Matthews, spins it across to first baseman Cepeda and one is away in the American League seven.
Here is catch third baseman Herman Killibrew hitting at 271 for the season. 28 homers and 70 RBIs.
He's the major league leader in home runs. He's over 2 this afternoon having flied to center and rolled out to second base.
Gors died at 1-1 in the American League seventh inning. Faith fourth ball, he's swinging on his big strike.
He missed it by a foot. That fourth ball comes up most elusively and then drops about a foot, foot and a half.
Just seems to die out there somewhere.
Breaking ball outside, one ball, one strike.
Luber dead, went three innings, is charged with one run. Four hits.
Picked up two strikeouts, did not walk anybody.
Here's the 1-1 pitch at strike call to M1 and 2.
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Killibrew strikes out.
He looked at the Elroy face fourth ball and he did not see it.
Little Elroy is a carver during the off season.
Luis Aparicio, he's flied to right by the left. Two down in the American League seventh.
Short tied at 1-1. Elroy faced the right-hander. He's only 5'8, weighs 150 pounds.
Turnball inside, one ball, a strike.
Jim Bunnings has finished warming up. Down the left field line for the American Leaguers.
Theron having completed his three short innings. Now back by Aparicio.
Seven strikeouts for both sides, but we're getting closer and closer to a record.
For an old star classic. One ball, one strike, did Luis Aparicio. Two down and none on.
There's an attempt for the bunny missus. One and two.
Got the front to the base, hit two. Matthews in very quickly from third.
But Aparicio didn't get onto that ball. One and two.
One ball, two strike pitch. Just low, two-two. Breaking ball.
Matthews put the National League in front in the first inning with a home run against early wins.
And a home run by Al Kalon of Detroit, tied in the fourth off Luberdip.
Two balls, two strikes, Aparicio. Shot came out.
Three up and three down. And so at the middle of the seventh inning, the score is American League one for National League one.
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L.R. Faye came through with two strikeouts, which is, ladies and gentlemen,
has been his great pitch on his forward ball.
And the fact that at 5'8", he is a fellow who gives you all sorts of motion out there
and comes right down with a pitch that elusively and bafflingly breaks down and in
to a right-hand batter sometimes and then down and into a left-hand batter.
He just throws the forward ball hoping to get him out of any particular type of jam.
He's ideally situated and everything about him is perfect for a release pitching.
Well, when he comes in normally, the bucks are in jam.
And he gets you to hit that ball on the ground, either strikes you out or gets you to pop it into a double play.
Now then, big Jim Bunning of the Detroit Tigers is coming in.
His slider, got him by Whitlow Watt, by the way, who is now the pitching coach for the Milwaukee Braves,
made him a real major league pitcher.
He now hit the Red Sox July 20th last year, you might recall.
Jim Bunning now pitching, the other day, the Detroit Tigers, is 1-7 off 6, an ERA of 4.72.
Boston's Frank Malone has come in to play at third.
Bunning is in to do the pitching.
And we'll give you the rundown on everybody else.
There's Stank, long drive, there's Field, going way back,
any Minnesota, gives a good-bye, it's off the wall.
And the bases for Bengal Banks as he bombs it high up against the standard.
There's a light standard out there.
That is about 375 feet from the home plate section.
And he bombed it right to the base of it.
And Josh missed the home run by inches and now has check-in with his second double.
And that's the fifth hit of the ball game.
And here is Orlando Cepeda, who is over 2.
He popped a short and grounded him to a double play.
Malone, in the infield on the left side.
Malone and shortstop Aparicio.
Aparicio makes the catch in behind the pitching mound.
So we have one out.
Now we have Wally Moon, the left fielder, who walks and struck out.
Whitey Ford of the New York Yankees is now throwing at the American League bullpen.
Wally Moon is up there.
Here's the pitch.
The curve is high ball on.
Banks let off with a double in the second.
It's Cepeda, pops the short on the first pitch in the second inning.
And there, Lightning struck twice in the same way in the seventh.
Double Banks lead it off.
Cepeda went on the first pitch and hit it straight up the shoot.
Four shortstop Aparicio.
One ball and no strikes.
The left-hand batting Wally Moon.
Short tied 1-1 in the National League seventh.
Time call is Triando.
And Funning want to talk it over.
Ryan Durant, in his three-inning snow run, without only one hit, struck out four.
And walks but one batter.
Two balls and no strikes to the left-hand batting Moon.
They shade him a little bit around to the right.
Fast ball down underneath the knees.
Two balls and no strikes.
Ernie Banks, who does not specialize in the long high fly ball home run,
but more in the low screeching shot,
barely missed one as he hit the top of the light-standard screen,
and it came back in the park to remain in play.
Three inside the Moon.
Del Crandall is on deck.
And now we're to that point of the ball game where both sides.
Manager Brett Haney of the National League champion Milwaukee Braves
and of the National American League champion Casey Stengel of the NPS.
They're throwing on a 3-0, 3-0, and bouncing out of play, 3-1.
So we're going on the first ones here on some of them for the National League.
The strategy is, and they gave him the green light to go on the 3-0.
If he was in there, they thought he might be able to give it a rest.
Three balls and a strike to while he moves.
We're down to that point though where the managers will be doing a lot of shuffling around.
3-1 pitch.
Moon flicks a foul out of play to the left, 3-2.
They're running a regular season of 20 games started 18.
It pitched 124 innings for the Detroit ball club, winning seven, losing six.
From the standpoint of the American League pitching stars,
that's the highest turn-run average of all that are here with a 4.72.
But that's respectful in this day and age of a long ball
and lightning-like shots out of the ballpark at any moment.
Three and two to Moon.
The pitch.
There's strike three called.
The ball is down by Triandosa now. He tags Wally.
And that's strikeout number eight against the National League.
Well, we have 16 strikeouts in the ball game.
And this will send Brody Jack Brickhouse to the record books again for us.
Well, we double-checked everything.
Now catcher Del Candel who struck out in the 1st.
A roll to third is the better.
They're going to play him around to the left.
Pitch up the middle. It's a base hit.
And here comes Ernie Banks around third.
Here's the shoot by Harvey Keene.
The throw is not in time.
Here goes the runner, Candle to second base.
The night's in the league in front.
To the right.
Del Candel just reached out and snapped that little shot.
And a center field.
And Banks scores the lead runner now, Bill Masurowski.
The great second baseman of the Pittsburgh Pirates is the better.
Masurowski in the regular year at 267.
Five home runs, 34 RBI.
And as Jack pointed out a while back, he goes in a one-for-four clip, but bingo.
When you need to hit, that's when the one out of four comes up.
And it did here. Masurowski's got a left field.
It's going to be a base hit.
Here comes Candle around third to score.
Masurowski's trying to go to second.
The run gets in there, slide.
He's out at second base.
It's a bingo. The run counts.
Nice feeling play by Minosso.
The throw went on into Fox at second base.
Candle scores from second.
And it's a two runs on three hits nowhere, there's nobody left.
At the end of seventh, the score is the National League three, the American League one.
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On the side we go now to the American League eighth inning, and flagged, Miles Ohm of Boston stands in.
Miles Ohm in the regular season, hitting a 278, 10 homerun, 39 RBI.
He's a right-hand batter, Roy Face delivers outside in low ball one.
This game now sets up as Roy Face's game to win and Jim Bunnings to lose, as it now stands.
No National League pitcher, as Jack points out, is issued a walk so far.
There's a pop, is it behind second base, Maseratky goes off to his right, dances around underneath, one out.
National League has not won the last couple of ball games, leading in this one three to one, as now Mnuchinupso, who is 0-3.
Flagged defender, went out second to first and struck out.
All six pitchers have struck out somebody in this ball game.
Mnuchinupso, left side, looking for it.
Stays with that dog and comes through there.
And Roy Face is showing everyone in Pittsburgh and coast to coast, as you listen to the broadcasts and around the world and in Canada,
he's one of the great pitchers of the major leagues in relief.
L.A. Pops is up there, he struck out, fouled out to third and rolled out to second.
National League leads the American League three to one in the 26th minute of the All-Star Classic at Ford Field.
Down inside the ball, as Elroy jammed him with a fast slider.
Little Roy Face with a heart as big as a church, 5'8", 150 pounds, has topped the American Leagueers' goal thus far.
Next delivery, right up the middle, almost, see Horne down there, goes on to the center field for the base hit.
So no sooner said what he was doing than bingo, Kelly gets the base hit.
And that came awfully close to catching him on the bare hands.
So that's the fifth hit for the American League.
And now Harvey Keane gets his first shot at it.
He is the center fielder, laying out here for the Detroit Tigers, 3'56", on the regular season.
He has three homers, 33 RBI.
Right-hand batter takes the ball from Roy Face.
National League three, the American League one in the top half of the eighth, on a brilliant, sunshiny afternoon from the city of Pittsburgh.
A 1-0, bat-handled foul out of play to the left, one and o'er.
One ball and one strike, two down, and Kelly Fox, at first on a base hit, is first and fourth bat, a single right up the middle.
And it had to be pretty well-struck to get by Face because Delroy is one of the better feeling pitchers in the game.
Pretty deep in the batter's box is Harvey Keane.
One ball, one on the swing, two. Took the big swing and nothing was there. One ball, two strikes.
Bill Rigg may for lack of a better to do on the off-season to get into a 2-0 at throwing that good ball.
There's a delivery low, ball two, two-two.
When Rigg was asked why, he said, well, I just wanted to see if I could do something to get this guy ruffled up a bit.
But nothing seems to bother Delroy. He really doesn't know who's batting. He just has certain way of pitchers and that's it.
Two balls and two strikes.
Keane, you know, was moved right over to right field by Jimmy Dykes and clicked immediately over there.
Two-two pitch, and there's a ground ball, bat-handled foul down third, two-two.
The Tigers off to a very bad start, as everyone knows by now, and Jimmy Dykes, who used to be the coach for the Pittsburgh Pirates,
was then asked if he would take over the managerial range of the Detroit team and zoom them into contention.
Not overnight, because when you're about 0-15, you don't zoom anywhere overnight.
Two-two to Keane, low outside, ball three. Three balls, two strikes.
Joe Papparella, the American League, calling the balls and strikes.
Al Barlich has the front side.
And the game that was tied up in 1-1 broke open in the seventh when Banks deviled his second devil and cradled in the moment.
And the Radgey single, when it breaks, and it's ball four. That's the first walk given up by the National League pitching this afternoon.
And brings up the moose.
Scanlon, no, take that back, brings up power.
Vic Power of Kansas City.
Well, really, of Cleveland, Vic was at Kansas City. He's hitting at 3-0-1.
He's been moving around quite a bit, and he has nine homers, 36 RBI's. He's a very fine baseball player.
Low ball one.
Another great relief hurler. When you speak of fine relief hurlers, the Chicago Cubs have a pair in both Elston and Henry.
Right catch, 2-1-1.
And there he is, the American leaguer up Kansas City. He's a left-hander. They started off this eighth inning with every tariff mile zone in Minnesota with very little trouble. Then Fox single, he walked keen.
Power gets a dive into center field for the Bay City. Here comes Willie May, skipping for the ball.
And will make no play on Nellie Fox, and will throw the ball into the basket short, and the American League picks back into the ball game at 3-2, in favor of the Nationals now by only one.
Oh, that's going on for Vic, something the National League teams have not been able to do.
And here comes Ted Williams.
He's back for the right fielder of the Indians, Rocky Calabito. Ted Williams hitting a 2-1-7.
Five homers and 18 RBI's, but don't let that fool you.
The uncomfortable, blended Twitter. Ted Williams.
Bang-Durrell makes his move. 2-1, 2-2, 3-2, the National League in the eighth. The ball game now starts to turn into a loud and only a very unpromised it would be.
So that's the pitch. Ball outside to Williams. Do switches around on that plate. And look at every NCAA athlete up there.
One ball, no strike pitch. Low ball, 2. Ted's been in every all-star game that's ever been played except for towards his rookie year and those years in which he missed due to being in the service.
This fellow totally eclipsed the great record. The five-shot stop, Marky Vaughn, hung up for homers and he just pounded him out of everything.
2-0 pitch. Ball free to Williams. Roy Face is running into trouble.
3-0 to Ted Williams. American League in the top of the eighth with 2-1 and 2-0. Trailing 3-2. Williams batting for Calo Vito. Roy Face on the 3-0.
Thanks, Cole.
Ted, you might recall, broke his shoulder at Comiskey Park in the all-star game in 1950 when he went back to catch a fly ball hit by the great Ralph Keiner of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Keiner tied it up and Shadice won it. Ball to Williams. Roy Face is loaded. That is the second walk.
That move is keen over the third. Puts the power up at second and brings up Baltimore's Jeff Fionnado who's 0-3.
Unless we get a pinch hitter. Stangle walking up and down.
Oh, wait a moment. They've called time. Looks like we're going to get a runner for Ted Williams.
Going to be Gil McDougal of the Yankees to run for Ted Williams. McDougal, the winner of the Lou Gehrig 5-0, the state of Memorial Award, is the F-League's fifth-five most wanted player.
That's good. Good strokemanship and everything you'd ever want to be. Treandte-Sempion takes the strike from Roy Face. Face is loaded before the American League. They have Harvey Keane at third.
Pick up power at second. McDougal running for Williams at first.
The outfield is shading Treandte-Sempion around to the left.
There's the foul back going through Treandte-Sempion in the regular season. There's 20 homers and 50 RBIs.
He's playing in a tough ballpark for home runs in Baltimore.
He's a big fella.
And he's the guy that has caught the dazzling assortment of knuckleballs, and in fact, like Will Hill.
No balls, two strikes to Big Gus Biondo.
Base runners lead away, as Little Roy Fates swings into the windup.
Around comes the arm, in comes the pitch, and it's a foul back out of play.
3-2, the National League in front, in the eighth inning.
The American League strikes back with a run win with two out, Nellie Fox singled up the middle.
Harvey Keene and Watt and Power singled in the middle, and in came Fox to score.
Then Ted Williams for the batter for Calovito drill.
Little Roy and the bases are loaded, it's nothing in through to Gus Biondo.
Now Roy in a long spare, now ready to go.
Here's the O2 pitch.
Ground ball, inside third, save ball, extra bases coming up.
It's trying to spare at least a fair run.
The ball comes out to the left field of Wally Murn, shoots it on in as they double for Gus Biondo.
Down inside third in the National League, now trail four to three.
Harvey Keene comes in to score, and Vic Power scores from second base.
Biondo, the catcher, double pumps a fair run.
And Roy Hamie comes out now to suck, as the American League has done to Elroy.
What no one was able to do in the National League, in addition to Elroy, walked a pair of batters.
And when you walk a couple of guys and you're playing in an all-star game, you usually get yourself into trouble.
And Biondo for the bases loaded, lags a double just inside third.
That sent Max Zuggles over to third after the other two runners Keene and Power had scored.
So three runs in here and the ending was two outs, and it's now four to three in the eighth.
The American League, and they have Daly and Whitey Ford warming up.
Pete Reynolds is coming out. We're going to wait and see what they're going to do.
We're going to get a pitcher coming in.
We're going to get a look at him for a moment.
I thought it was John Elston originally that had been warming up,
but he walked in like he might be John Antonelli of the San Francisco Giants.
From what I've seen, it's John Antonelli.
It is John Antonelli of the San Francisco Giants.
All right, that's five thirty seconds for station identification.
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L.R.F. has pitched one and two-thirds innings and is now the pitcher of record
and is replaced by John Antonelli, the savvy fastball of the San Francisco Giants.
John Antonelli with an earned run average of 2.66 has won twelve and lost four.
And but for L.R.F. this twelve and O record would be the top hurler from the standpoint of record in the national league.
Now, Reynolds is in the game and out. He was a left-hand batter.
So catch him and put in Roy Severs, the home run hitting slugger of the Washington Senators.
That's Killebrew who had given way earlier to Malzah.
Malzah is the man that is being hit for, I do believe, unless,
and we'll have to wait development unless the pitcher was put into that spot.
But for the moment we'll call with Severs, Severs, Roy Severs in there of Washington,
hitting at 2.36. He has nine homers, twenty-one RBI.
He's a right-hand batter.
Roy Severs is charged with three runs and is responsible for Triandos' second shooting score.
Now Triandos is being run for by Mickey Mantle of the Yankees.
Mickey Mantle has gone in to run at second base for Gus Triandos.
Spangos shoots the bench and they all have fireworks here on the eighth inning.
Shots, Mantle runs for Triandos. Changes, Galoha are in order.
Mantle Valley works down to Severs inside the ball.
Severs in 57, his 42 homerun, is knocked in 114.
So he left the league. He's not off to that kind of a start this year,
but has had the great pick-up of Adelson and Killebrew helping him.
There's a shrinking in there by John Andonelli.
One ball, one strike.
Andonelli in the regular season ball to John.
Been in 21 ball, game started 20.
Winning 12, losing four.
Curves down inside, ball two, two balls and a strike.
Mac Diggle is at third.
He ran for Ted Riddick.
On at second base is Mickey Mantle running for Gus Triandos.
And Severs is up there batting.
Eighth man to get up in this inning.
Pitches of ball three, three balls and a strike.
Pitched on the outside corner.
Two men down by Roy Fates on the American League side of the eighth.
Went and pushed out of the thick away.
And before you knew it, had themselves three run, three one pitch receivers.
All four and they're loaded up.
That's the third walk in all three walks in this inning.
Now, Louis Aparicio is due to bat.
And is Aparicio being called out? Wait will we see.
Stengel is making a ton of moves.
I started to tell you earlier, Stengel you know, really flabbergasted the city of Pittsburgh when he said,
Now this early win is rather agent but still has good stuff.
And I must say he's experienced what I don't think will make him frightened when he sees all those National League names.
So I pick him when Wilhelm goes six on Sunday so I can't pitch him with his own catcher Triandos catching him like I want.
But this win has been around.
That's what Stengel said at the brush conference last night,
that by the time it was unraveled by everyone concerned, turned out to be, that he was going to start early win.
Sherem Lawler, the white star, is coming out. He's a catcher.
Sherem hitting a 273. 12 homers, 49 RBIs on the regular two.
He's a nice man to get up.
He's a nice man to get up in this inning.
Bases are loaded for the second time in the inning.
McDougal on third.
Mickey Mantle on second.
Roy Sebers is on it first.
And John Sherem Lawler up there, right hand better.
Swing ground ball down for third.
Up comes Matthews off the wrist and steps on third for the fourth time.
That ball came right up his wrist.
Really held on to it.
And so the National League gets out of it.
It showed three runs.
Three hits, no errors, and three left.
And so at the middle of the eighth, the score is the American League four, the National League three.
Well, you know, we just watched Casey Stangle make a ton of moves.
And we'll have to watch him again after this and we'll see how many changes he makes.
Casey is kind of famous for the way he can switch around his players and come up with a winner.
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Well, ladies and gentlemen, a few changes have been made and Whitey Ford of the Yankees is on as a pitcher.
And Mickey Mantle's in the outfield.
We'll have to make these changes for you.
Whitey Ford is pitching. That we know.
Roller is catching.
McDougal has gone to short.
Mantle's in center field.
No, check that. He's in right.
Mantle's in right.
If you're trying to keep a score or whatever they bat, don't worry about it yet.
We'll get you straightened out on that.
We go to the National League 8 and Ken Boyer is going to bat.
You're batting place of our pitcher, John Antonelli.
I believe he was in the number one spot, Mazurowski.
Casey Stangl has got the plate on by Joe Paparello wrapped up in a long monologue down there.
He's got a center fielder in right and a right fielder in center.
Jack, you see him all the time in Chicago.
I presume these maneuvers are no strange thing at all in Chicago fandom.
No, nothing at all.
Anything Casey does is really inserting himself with surprises.
Well, here we are looking at it with Mantle in right field and Keane in center and Ken Boyer batting
and Whitey Ford on the hill and the curve is in for the called strike.
We'll catch you up on every record in the book when we get the opportunity.
No ball for one strike with a left-hander.
Fires down outside for the ball.
Whitey Ford of the Yankees has an earned run average of 3.20, has 1.8 and lost five for the champion in 1959.
The 1-1 pitch is run on by Boyer and Miss, 1 and 2.
This now sets it up where Bunning is the pitcher of record and Faith is the pitcher of record for the losing side,
for the moment.
Here's the 1 and 2.
Curve ball bounces away from our lotto, 2-2.
Last half of the eighth inning.
The National League trailing now 4-3.
Ken Boyer up there to see what he can do.
Try to lead off base end, 2-2.
Ground foul down third.
Boyer, you know, is the fine third baseman of the St. Louis Cards.
He's hitting a 3-0-4 currently, 16 homers and 56 RBIs.
For a big man, he's perhaps one of the fastest men in all of baseball for his size.
Great hands, great range at third.
2-2 pitch by Ford.
Check swing on a fastball that took off.
Tailed out.
They look like the screwball, but Matt Allen tells us that his fastball that tails is not the screwball, although it reacts like it.
3-2.
3-2 pitch to Boyer.
There's a chop off the left side, and it's on third in the left center for the base end.
McNewell going over from short, couldn't get it.
Center fielder Keane comes up, whacks it down, and Boyer has a base end.
Well, now let's see.
Remember, the National League is the home team.
Their opportunity is always to have the last at-bat.
Dick Kurt is coming out.
Good for Pittsburgh is coming out, and he's down to be not only a fine runner, but any of us that they get to do sky storm is one of the better hit-and-run players of the game.
Richard Marlgood, who had to make the substitution for him, whether he would be a professional baseball player or a professional basketball player,
and at Duke University, with one of the most famous basketball players of all time, he's a Pittsburgh boy.
Matt or Matthew?
Dick Groves.
Richard Groves hitting a 2-7-0.
Five homers, 36 RBI.
There's the bat.
Witte Forte comes up, throws it on to First Bay Tower, who makes the play there.
On the sacrifice, Boyer's in a second.
Dick Groves, you know, was the room head of the vice president's brother, Ed Nixon, down at Duke.
So he and Dick, the vice president and Dick Groves, have had a wonderful time visiting here in Pittsburgh.
Here's Henry Aaron up, cutting the ball for the single in the sixth inning.
The national league needs a run. They're down by one, four to three in here.
Witte Forte delivers, fast ball low, one ball, no strike.
Time call. Lauer wants to go out and talk it over now with Witte Forte.
Jim Funning pitched one inning, gave up two runs.
And the ones that put him in the soup, and then saw his team come back for enough runs to give him the blue chips for the moment.
Gave up three hits. Stuck out one. Did not walk anybody.
Bow back by Henry Aaron, one and one. A real tremendous threat at the plate is the right fielder of the Milwaukee Braves, Henry Aaron.
A lunging rattlesnake type of hitter. Has tremendous risk.
See it's a ball that'll start out with a short sample leap forward many times. A left fielder will want to go high over the wall.
That kind. One-one delivery outside. Two balls and a strike.
With one out of the score, American League four is an action to league three.
Foyer is at second base with a tying run, and Henry Aaron is working against Witte Forte of the Yankees.
Buddy Daley of Kansas City warming up again.
Secretary of the ballgame, traveling secretary, and the secretary for the National and the American League, Robert C. Wright, from the Pittsburgh Pirates.
He's down below checking on the comfort of all the fans.
There's a high chopper up on the left side. In there, a big step.
And Foyer comes down around third, and it's a single for Henry Aaron. That's all tight.
Henry Aaron ties it up with a ball that had eyes on it.
The ball is raised and leaped by everybody.
As the ball players say, anything that gets by a pitcher or two infielders, suggests every time anybody goes at it, why it seems to run away from you.
That's what's up there. Here's Maysup. He's 0 for 3. Witte Forte works a curve into the third ball.
4-4 ballgame in a real filler, as these two great squads from the American and the National League put on a devastating game of home runs and running and thrills galore.
The pitch swings by Willie, trying to put it out of the ballpark one and one.
A home run by K. Lyon as an example, and the one by Matthews marked the first two homers in the last three games.
And as Jack points out and did earlier, no extra bases at all last year. So here we're in with everything.
Willie Maysup, Henry Aaron off first. Pick power holding pitch.
Outside, ball two, two balls and a strike.
Down in the right field, Brokane. Foyer's warming up.
Two balls and a strike.
First play, good job, deep right center fielder, way back on County Keynes.
He can't catch it. The ball's at the top, 36 mark. Henry Aaron's got a star.
Willie Maysup around second. Willie comes to third.
I'm hoping to go for the right center fielder for Mays.
K. C. Sango has come out of the dugout. That's going to be all for Whitey Ford.
A booming triple by Willie Mays. Over the head of Harvey Keynes. Hit at the 436 mark on one hop.
And in came the big run that put Whitey Ford in the soup.
And Jack Brickhouse just points out a very interesting observation.
And you can see it as he walks in.
But daily, of Kansas City, who's a knuckleball pitcher, his right arm is considerably shorter than his left arm.
And he's a left hand pitcher, it must be pointed out.
So sometimes the implements of the trade develop the hand, all the arms, all the extremities in such a way that they become outside.
And one has against the other. Here's Whitey Ford sucking off the hill.
Whitey pitched exactly one third of an inning. And it was a sacrifice front by Jones who got that out in.
He's charged with two runs and could be tagged with another. He gave up three hits.
To Boyer, to Aaron, and the triple by Mays.
No strikeouts, no one. And daily, saw the national league as forged into the league.
How about a score of five to four? And based on what we've seen, there's more to follow.
But daily, of Kansas City.
In the regular season, one eight lost five. Left hand knuckleballer and Sherm Lawler will get the problem of trying to handle him.
They have made all the changes in America.
And really, when started, just to refresh your memory on this, and in three innings, about one run on two hits, struck out three.
Goddale pitched a perfect three innings.
It's just been announced and Jack Leans over to tell me about it.
There have been six players that have been batting in the seventh position in the lineup for the American League.
And I want to tell you, you can understand easily how.
They just keep, they're saying they'll keep firing them from one end of the spots to the other.
Now what it may is that third, and let's see what the American League infield will do.
It is now thorn.
That third, he's a tight MacDougald and short, Fox is second, and the power is first, and they're all up.
The right hand batting Ernie Banks, who has two hits today, both doubles.
Short a run, that was back in the seventh inning. So the long ball has been used by the National League to forge into the lead.
And Willie May has ever a threat.
Dances around at third, pitch to Banks, knuckleball strike called.
Four balls and one strike from Butt Daly, who is the fifth pitcher for the American League All-Stars this afternoon.
Daly checks on Willie May as it serves.
Infield stood up outfield around to the left of Banks.
It's a five-four ball game last half of the eighth. Here's the pitch.
Knuckleball hits, well, they went after that butterfly and just got a ticking piece of it.
Ernie Banks, ticking away at a knuckleball that danced every old play.
And now the fellow who is the owner of the most famous of them all, Hoyt Wilhelm of Baltimore, is warming up down the left field bullpen.
Right hander looks like Elston up again for Chicago's Cubs.
Way out the right field line, and the National League bullpen.
No balls, just strikes. Pitch to Banks and there's a foul coming back out of play.
Nothing to do.
Jack just points out on the bench that Ferris, the only one left for the American League, accepting two pitchers.
One of Wilhelm warming up right now.
The other's got to be Billy Pierce of Chicago.
Oh, nobody can say Stengel didn't use his stand.
No balls, just strikes.
There's a nut where this lollipop just went up and batted it down like it's water fly, just trying to keep it in the park.
You see, of course, the great argument about whether pitchers can make the ball curve and what have you.
They never, ever tried to just prove it or prove it when they had the knuckleball working.
Here's the one-two pitch. Banks strikes out on it.
Now that is the ninth strikeout against the National League.
Coupled with the American League's eighth at 17 strikeouts, too shy of the All-Star record for strikeouts by two clubs.
The nut was good in a 4-10 inning ball game.
Here is Orlando Cepeda. Hennies 0-3. Popped the short, hit into a double play, and popped up the short.
The infield now retreats for the American League, milestone MacDougall-Foxton power.
Banks called it Cepeda. Cepeda hits the longest home run ever seen here at Ford Field,
to the opposite field when he struck one a distance of 445 feet into right center.
No one has ever come near that.
No balls, one strike to Orlando.
Woodin has it third, his triple, knocked in the lead run, Henry Aaron, here on the National League's eighth inning.
Plops it up on the first base side. Dick Howard comes up. The ball is now dripped foul.
He goes over near the railing, leans over, and makes the catch for the out.
So all the innings showed three runs, three hits, no errors, and one left.
And at the end of eight innings of play, it's the National League Five and the American League Four.
Look sharp, be sharp, be sharp now is the mission. How will you make it for me?
How will you make it for me? You better ask.
You need to make sure you've got enough enough.
Cause the more and I'll be made to make it even by time.
How will you make it for me?
You better ask.
All right, ready to go now to the top of the night.
We're attempting to determine where and how the winning and losing pitch is going to be set up.
And it very likely will be as Elston now comes in.
In relief of John Antonelli.
It does appear that this will be an official score, it's not a problem.
Ken Boyer goes to third base for the National League.
And Don Elston, the fine right-hander and release pitcher, hitting, pitching at 225.
In other words, the in-run average is 2.25.
One five and lost one, that's one five in a row in relief for the Chicago Cubs.
He faces Malzone, a bunt that flanked Malzone.
He's over one back in the eighth inning, there's a high curve ball on.
One ball and no strike.
Elston's delivery, swing and a miss by Malzone, one and one.
We're down now to the point where this could be the final inning.
In a five-four ball game, John Antonelli went one third of an inning.
No run, no hit, didn't strike out, anybody did walk one.
Elston gets another fastball in there past the power of Malzone, right up in his letters,
but he had something on it, one and two as he swung inside.
Good pitcher of the afternoon for the National League All-Stars.
Don Elston, top half of the ninth, the National League leading five-four.
The right-hander works, foul back by Malzone.
Malzone, the right-hand batter, has a very wonderful target at which to swing in Boston,
the short left field porch as they call it.
He has 10 homers, 39 RBI's.
He's a very fine ball player.
Elston working to Malzone in the ninth inning for the American League.
They're down and run.
The American League has won the last two All-Star Classics.
Here's the one-two pitch up inside to two.
Manny Minosso is on deck.
Seventeen strikeouts in the ballgame, a couple of chives in record
for a total strikeout by two clubs in the All-Star Classics.
There's a pump up on the first base side and Macy Minosso in the stand and does.
Two-two.
One could not have asked for a more brilliant, beautiful, sunshiny afternoon.
And the day presented the baseball fans of Pittsburgh and the fans of the nation
for the 26th annual All-Star Classic.
Two-two pitch.
There's a high top, hit up on short, bank wanted.
Shortstop bank waiting.
Four-mile zone top.
Gets up two steps to the left, then one down.
Now Manny Minosso, who is all for four, he plowed the center, went out to second,
struck out and fouled out.
He's the left fielder today for the Cleveland Indians playing here in the American League All-Star.
Wally Moon is in left field.
Willie Mays is in center.
Henry Aaron is right.
They've not made a change there.
The National League has not made anywhere near the changes.
The American League has curbs.
One going to miss by Minosso, try to tie it up.
Moyer's in third.
Banks is short.
Mazurowski at second.
Capeted first.
Crandall has been doing the catching all the way.
And the pitcher is Don Elson, the great relief artist of the Chicago Cubs.
Hard curveball outside and low.
One ball, one strut.
One ball and one strut.
Low outside, football too, good one.
This game, a very explosive one.
Jack described in the first four and a half, just a home run or no count, a one-one,
and then everything burst loose in the seventh and eighth inning.
Two balls, one strike, and sucking away.
Minosso fouls it off way up over our heads to the right.
She did.
As an example in the short side at one and one, the National League in the seventh inning made it three to one their way.
In the eighth inning, the American League came back with three runs to take the lead four to three.
It's an action league for two in the eighth and it's five-four.
There's a strikeout swinging on Minosso, two down, and we're within one of tying a record on strikeouts.
Eighteen now, nineteen is the record, and that was a fourteen inning ball game.
That's the ninth strikeout, first for Don Elson.
And here's Nellie Fox, who struck out, fouled out the third, rolled out the second, and singled up the middle in the eighth and scored
one of the three runs when the American League took the lead on a short live basis four to three,
only to surrender it by four as the National League came back with eight or two runs in the eighth.
Nellie Fox, check swings on the hard curve inside below the knees ball on.
Nellie, left hand batter.
Don Elson, fifth pitcher of the afternoon, what's two down, none on? What's going on, Nellie Fox?
There's a liner out the right field line hooking, and it is up in the stands at the foul wall.
And Nellie Fox didn't miss it by much, a tying it up.
Well, Nellie Fox with two homers and forty-one RBI's just shared the daylight down the National League fans
with a two out, long blast to right, three hundred feet right down the line, he took a shot at it, and it hooked foul.
One ball, one strike, Don Elson again into the windup.
There's a looper to left for the basehead, he went to the outstretched field on a curve ball,
Wally Moon comes up with it, they stay alive, these American Leaguers.
That'll bring up Harvey Keene, who walked in the eighth and scored a run.
I remember Harvey Keene in front of Adler, he's hitting it three fifty-six.
Two down, and now, a lot of action again.
Warren Spahn is up for the Milwaukee Braves, there's the pitch, inside a ball, the Harvey Keene.
And Gene Conley of Philadelphia is also up.
One ball and no strikes, the pitch.
The ball bounces off to the left, there goes the tying run into second and Nellie Fox,
and he bluffs the throw to third, there's a skipping throw by Crandall on down to Foyer to hold the runner there,
and it's a wild pitch charged to Don Elson.
Well, that little statement, the game is never over until the final round against the Rear Adductor,
a little head as far as the National Leaguers are concerned.
Now the tying run in Nellie Fox has been a wild pitch to second base,
and there's a pretty fair man up there with a stick in the name of Harvey Keene at three fifty-six
for the Detroit Tigers.
Pitch from Elson, a long drive to left field, it is curving, it is out of here somehow.
Well, I want to tell you Harvey Keene laid the wood to that one.
He only has three homers this year, thirty-three Harvey has,
but he just about puts the American League in his game of inches back into the lead.
Two balls and a strike now, Nellie Fox on second base.
The score, five-four, National League top of the night.
The pitch, foul back.
Elson's playing a good, moving pitch that time,
and it's a little just enough that he found it off to the right, two-two.
Two balls and two strikes.
Well, let's see now, if Elson's able to go to his favorite outpitch on a two-two delivery,
a curve ball that won't quit.
Here's the look, the pitch, there's the curve.
Ooh, Elson says he thought he had it so did the catcher,
and it's called ball three, three and two.
Three balls and two strikes.
Elson went right to his knee, supplication.
Three balls and two strikes now to Harvey Keane with Nellie Fox on second base,
two out in the night.
The look, the pitch, pop it up foul off the first-rate side,
Randall Ann Boyer, Boyer stays with it, that's it.
The National League beats the American League all-star.
The final score is the National League five runs on nine hits and one error,
the American League four runs on eight hits and no errors.
In a moment, we'll review the highlights of the ballgame for you.
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Well, ladies and gentlemen, this is Jack Brickhotts back in the Moosehound,
Morton Field, and Pittsburgh.
And here's a little brief review of what went on this afternoon out here.
And one of the most thrilling, one of the most exciting,
and one of the most entertaining of all the All-Star games
is the National League drew up closer to the American League win total in this series.
With the 26th game, found the National League winning their number 11,
the American League has 115.
Here are the totals for the winning National Leaguers, five runs, nine hits, and one error.
The winning pitcher was Johnny Antonelli.
They used Drysdale for Deft Base Antonelli and Don Elston of that order.
And the American League had four runs on eight hits and no evers.
And the American League used Wynn, Zirin, Bunning, Ford, and Daly.
They really used plenty.
As a matter of fact, Casey Sangles used 22 men in this ball game.
And at one stage of the game, the only ones left down there were Daly and Pearson, the full fence,
and Yogi Vera and Casey himself on the bench.
It must have been an interesting conversation between Yogi and Casey Sangles, two great grammarians,
one of whom has built up a vocabulary by reading lots of comic books,
and the other who has been described as a man who talks like a fellow coming out of the anesthetic.
Anyway, it was one of the most interesting baseball games we've ever seen,
and we've been lucky enough to have seen most of these All-Star contests, as has Bob.
The official enough gate count was 34,763.
The tickets sold were 35,277, which means that a few people who bought tickets didn't make it to the ballpark today.
We're not going to go over the whole game for you,
but we do want to point out that you can find all sorts of heroes and very few goats in this ball game today.
Certainly one of the standout performances came a couple of hours ago,
and a little better when at the opening of this particular performance here in Pittsburgh,
Don Drysdale retired the first nine men he faced, struck out four, walked nobody,
was followed by Berta, who struck out a couple, Faye struck out a couple, and Denali,
and Ford were the only pitchers who did not strike out somebody today.
Early wind struck out three, but he gave up that home run ball, so that's right there,
just about white-dotted chance of being the winning pitcher two years in a row.
He was the winner last year.
Ryan Durin struck out four while walking only one, and Bunning got a strike out,
and Daley got a strike out in his performance at the end of the game.
All told, there were nine strikeouts on each side, a total of 18 and one short on the record for two teams.
The record for one team is a dozen.
Again, our congratulations to everybody, and of course, just the eighth inning alone was worth the price of admission
as the American Leaguers came up with three big runs, batted around to do it,
and it looked like they had finally come from behind in typical American League style,
which they've done many times before to win the ball game,
but the National League had it when they had to have it in their half of the eighth inning,
and with base hits by Boyer, a great clutch bunt by Nick Rood, a very significant bunt,
shutting up a chance for Hank Aaron to belt one, and then Willie May's triple,
which brought in Aaron with what turned out to be the winning run,
and there you had a very, very explosive eighth inning.
Well, we certainly hope you've enjoyed today's game,
one of the many events brought to you on the Gillette Cavalcade of sports.
We have a World's Wilderweight title strap on 10th for you Friday night,
July the 10th when Don Shorten defends his crown against Dennis Boyer in a 15-rounder.
So plan to be with us via radio or television and enjoy all the excitement.
Our thanks to our NBC engineer, Harry Alexander.
This broadcast was produced by NBC Sports editor Paul Jonas,
and this is Jack Brickhouse saying, along with Bob Prince,
smooth sailing, smooth shaving, and good afternoon for your host, the Gillette Safety Razor Company.