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On September 29th, 1954, the Cleveland Indians faced the New York Giants at the Polo Grounds for Game 1 of the 1954 World Series.
This is the mutual radio broadcast of Game 1 featuring announcers Al Halfer and Jimmy Dudley.
The Gillette's Cavalcade and Squarks is on the air.
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and hello baseball fans everywhere.
This is Jimmy Dudley at the Polo Grounds in New York greeting you for the Gillette safety racer company.
As the Cleveland Indians and the New York Giants get set for the opening game of the 1954 World Series.
This is the 16th consecutive year that baseball's championship classic is being broadcast to your entertainment on the Gillette Cavalcade of sports.
Yes, and because so many of your sports fans are also Gillette fans, we broadcast and telecast other athletic events of national interest,
including the regular Friday night boxing bout for your entertainment the year round.
And now fans return you over to one of baseball's all-time greats, Frankie Frisch, the Fordham Flash.
Frankie is on deck in the clubhouse right now to give you the inside joke on the series.
Today he interviews baseball commissioner Fort Frisch, the national and American league president Warren Giles and Will Harrods,
along with Rhea DeRosha and Al Lefebvre. Take it away, Frankie Frisch.
Good afternoon, fans. Well, it's a pleasure to have you on our program.
The both managers of the two fine ball clubs, Miss Al Lopez, Al Howeyer, the Cleveland Indians and Rhea DeRosha.
So Al, I can ask you one question. You've done a terrific job.
When you want to be on a championship club, you've got to do a terrific job.
What would you say is responsible for your club winning the penalty shoot? Why don't you finish sucking back in those Yankees for two or three years?
Three years in a row, Frankie.
How many men, three or four men, helped you win?
The only thing I can say is that Vic Wurz, who gave us help the first base, gave us a little extra hunch.
Our bench was tremendous. It really helped us because we had fellows like Rogan, Strickland, Habilla,
and really top-like ball players out of the lineup for two or three weeks at a time.
Then our extra pitchers, fellows like New Hauser and those two young boys, Don Marcy and Ray Nalesky, did a tremendous job for us.
I think that was responsible mostly for the success that we've had this year.
Hey Leo, that Yankees ball club, that first game out, looks pretty good. How about your club hopping up there?
Well, Frank, they played wonderful as a team, as you well know.
I couldn't put my finger on any one man. Alvin Dark, naturally the captain of the club, Willie Mays, were great, Matt Nellie.
But I think it was more of a team effort as a unit that did a great job.
Naturally, Al sitting alongside of me here, I'm hoping we can continue right on through the series.
You know, I get a pleasure out of this because both you've got a place for me and both wonderful team men.
Looks like a bad job, Frank.
That's all you want. A few years back, I mean, no question a few great hands.
Say, listen Al, Gillette, a raisin. I know you'll enjoy it. In the back of that.
Thank you, Frank. That's a very nice raisin.
Thank you. And Leo?
This is my favorite too.
Well, I say, how old is that Yankees of yours?
He's 12, Frank.
Look, give him one of those two. He'll be able to shave pretty soon.
And in the back of that, I know he's going to enjoy that well series, did you like? Well series record book.
It's got everything in it. It's a terrific book.
And every little thing in it, you can get the closure's name in it.
Hey, thanks kindly for being with us.
And lots of luck with both of you.
And take care of your health.
Nice to see you.
This is indeed a pleasure. I'd like to introduce you, Ben, the commissioner of baseball, Mr. Ford Fritz.
Hi, Frank. Hi, thank you.
And Mr. Warren Jones, the president of the National League.
Hi, Frank.
And Mr. Will Harridge, president of the American League.
Nice to see you, Frank.
Mr. Harridge, nice to see you, sir.
And the deputy assistant secretary of defense, James Mitchell.
He's here to make a presentation on behalf of the Armed Forces' radio services.
Frank, Mr. Giles, Mr. Harridge, as the representative of Secretary of Defense Charles V. Wilkins,
it's a real privilege to present these certificates of appreciation for your cooperation in making possible the broadcast of Major League Games to our service men and women overseas by the Armed Forces' radio service.
The Armed Forces' radio service has 72 local stations all over the world.
They broadcast in addition to sports events, the news, shows of various kinds, and you can imagine what it means to these young men and women who are representing America all over the world to be up to date in and by any Major League Baseball.
It's a real pleasure, and I really appreciate your cooperation in making these broadcasts possible.
Gentlemen, I'm very glad to see you here.
Thank you, Mr. Mitchell.
From the Department of Defense.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you very kindly, gentlemen.
Mr. Pritzker, please come over and sit down with me.
I'll flash for a few minutes.
I'd just like to have a little chat with you.
Yes, sir.
Well, I'm proud of you on that one.
And it's always a pleasure to sit with the Commissioner of Baseball.
You've been a wonderful man.
You were in the radio business, Mr. Pritz?
Is that so?
Well, that's one of the chapters in my past.
It's a dark chapter, Frank.
And also a newspaper man.
Yes.
Now, are you new to the message?
I'm completely new to the point, yes.
I hope we have a great series.
I hope we don't have any umpire trouble.
I hope it doesn't rain.
As concerns those things, I'm not new to it.
Well, the weather is, it's a beautiful day for a ballgame.
Is that right?
It's marvelous.
It's just a day.
And I know no pitcher can complain about pitching a ballgame today being too hot.
Or too cold.
Oh, indeed.
What do you think about the attendance?
I have a hunch, Frank, that if it's, well, however long the series goes, that for the
number of games it goes, we will break the attendance record.
How many, go ahead, Mr. Kuhn.
Well, you see, we have two great parts.
If it would only go four games, I think we would break the attendance record for four
games.
Or five or six, depending on how many we go.
The seating capacity at the program is 55,000, isn't it?
Frank, I really don't know what's right around that yet.
And could it be?
For a good takeout in rural series, you take out quite a few seats to take care of radio
and newspaper men and telegraphers and that sort of thing.
You take out probably all six or eight hundred seats.
And oh, there was one question I wanted to ask you, Mr. Commissioner.
How about the boy that's going to fill out the first ball today?
It's going to be little Jimmy Berenice, I think his name is.
And I'm awful proud to have him.
He's the center fielder and the captain of the Little League team that won the World
Championship.
Oh, that's fine.
I hope his arm's in good shape so he reaches out to that mound and does a good job.
It's a good thing, Frank, that he's still young.
You know, they can hook that ball up again.
How old is he?
Well, he can't be more than twelve.
But the league ends at twelve, you see.
That's right.
And I was up to a Little League session the other day.
Those kids do a terrific job.
They're really wonderful.
Now, you have no favorite in this series.
No, sir.
Commissioner, thanks kindly for being with us.
Thank you very much.
And fans, it's time to wind up our clubhouse interview this afternoon.
And we've got to switch you now to the broadcast.
Commissioner, thanks kindly.
Thanks a lot, Frank.
And our fans, this is Jimmy Gatley speaking to you again from the neutral radio booth.
And today we're all set to bring you the first game of the 1954 World Series.
Manigal Lopez has met with Captain Alvin Doth of the Giants and the Umpires at home plate.
And here are the lineups for today's ball game.
The first game in the 1954 World Series, the 51st World Series, the 14th for the Giants and the third for the Indians.
For the Cuban Indians, the visiting club leading off in left field, number 32, Al Smith.
At second base, Bobby Avila, batting champion of the American League this year.
In center field, the Indian spectacular outfielder, Larry Dolby.
At third base, and batting in the cleanup spot, Al Rosen.
At first base, Rick Wirtz.
In right field, Dave Philly.
At shortstop, George Strickland.
Catching for the Indians, Jim Hegan.
And picking the first game for the Tribe, the 1954 World Series, is the Indian base right-hander, number 21, Bob Lemon.
During the regular season, he won 23 and lost only 7.
Appearing in 36 ball games, he held 21 complete games and wound up in the men's run average of 2.69, one of the best in baseball.
The lineup for the New York Giants.
At first base, leading off is Waddy Lockman.
At shortstop, Captain Alvin Doth.
In right field, Don Mueller.
In center field, Willie Mays, the Giants spectacular outfielder.
At third base, Hank Thompson.
In left field, Monty Irvin.
At second base, Bobby Williams.
Catching for the Giants, Wes Westrom.
And pitching the first game for the Giants, Sal Magley.
Winner of 14, losing only 6 during the regular season.
This broadcast is authorized under broadcasting rights granted by the Commissioner of Baseball, solely for the entertainment of our listening audience.
Any publication, rebroadcast, or other use of the descriptions and accounts of this game without the expressed consent of the Commissioner is prohibited.
Here are the empires for this afternoon's game.
Working back at the plate, from the National League, Varley.
At first base, from the American League, Berry.
At second base, from the National League, Conlon.
And at third base, from the American League, Steven.
The two alternate empires who will be working the foul line in the first game of the 54 World Series.
On the left field, foul line will be one of the game's great pitchers of years gone by, Ron Warnocky.
And on the right field, foul line from the American League, Larry Knapp.
And the stage is all set for what promises to be one of the most thrilling World Series in the history of the game.
First, as we said a moment ago, is the 51st World Series.
Bob Lemon versus Sal Magley.
Here at today's ballgame is a youngster who is getting perhaps one of the greatest thrills of all time in his life, young life.
Jimmy Barberi, of Schenectady, the captain of the Schenectady Little Lakers, World Champions in Little League play, throughout the first baseball.
And we'll throw it out again as we get ready to go.
Now the Giants take the playing field, and that means that action is coming up.
Right now, let's pause 10 seconds for station identification.
This is Ne2O, the radio network for all America.
And this is WGN, your exclusive World Series station in Chicago.
And our fans, with action about ready to get underway, the coaches are taking to the coaches' box on first and third.
At first for the Indians will be Red Crest.
At third base, number 44, Tony Cucinello.
And may I take just a second of your time to say that it gives me a great thrill to be working my first World Series game.
A great deal of pleasure to sit up here in the Ne2O radio broadcast booth.
And now with Sal Magley taking those last two warm-up pitches,
is with a great deal of joy and pride that I turn you over now to Ne2O's Man of Sports,
the voice that has become familiar to millions of fans of his own.
Big in heart, big in sports, and big in voice.
Al Helfand.
Well, thank you very much, Jim Dudley. Good afternoon, everybody.
And hi, fans all around the country and all around the world this afternoon.
We're very happy, too, to have Jim Dudley up here for his first World Series.
And we're happy, too, to be here on Eastern Seaboard this afternoon to have such beautiful weather,
the kind of weather you'd expect for this fall classic.
Sal Magley has been warming up for the past about half hour, and is he on the mound right now,
getting ready to make the first pitch here to the first down-up for Cleveland, Al Smith, 8th-rounded left fielder.
We have a wind very strictly going in from behind left field here this afternoon,
as great brilliant sunlight bays Kruggen's left.
And we expect that the fly ball hitting the right and the right center field will be carried and lost away
by the wind that is coming in right now.
Sal Magley is taking the last of his warm-up pitches,
and we'll set the Ne2O's Giants for you defensively now.
On the mound, Sal Magley has won 14 ball games, has lost six this year,
has picked one of the six 17 shutouts that have been registered by Giant Pitching.
His battery made is a very dependable west-western, although a light hitter, a very fine receiver.
At first base is Wally Loughman, the Carolina Comet.
At second base, the kids from Dallas, David Williams.
At short field, Bayou Tiger.
And at Elvendorf, the captain of the ball club.
At third base is Hank Thompson, a fine little left fielder, a fine little third baseman, and also a fielder.
And now, the ball will be crossed out by Jimmy Vardetti.
And it is being crossed out, and west-western catches it, goes over Scherzies' hands,
congratulates him on being a fine ball player also,
and we are getting ready for the first pitch in the 1954 World Series,
the 51st World Series to go to the board between the American and the National League.
Out in left field, Marty Irvin, who made the farthest flag by stealing home base in the 1951 World Series.
In center field is Willie Mays, the play-hate kid.
And in right field, a very dependable Don Miller.
As Sal Magley steps up on the rubber, looks down at this right-hander hitter,
and takes the time to west-western.
Al Bollock behind the plate, leans down over the choller, off west-western.
Again, a look at the first pitch.
As Al Smith, chocking up on the horn, a little bit steps in, about three-quarters deep at the plate.
Magley over his head, down comes the pick-up fastball, which is inside and tight off the letters for ball one.
So the 1954 World Series, ladies and gentlemen, is on the fire.
West-western, down in the crash again, the pump is trying to Smith's turn during late.
He's batting a 281 on the regular safety.
Sal Magley in no hurry, and you can't blame him.
Goes over his head, pump kicks and throws a curve.
Smith runs up left, the bunt takes the pitch low outside, and it's ball two.
No balls and no strikes.
The count on the very first hitter up here for Cleveland, bidding to win their third straight World Series.
They've won two, as Jimmy Dudley told you, they have lost none.
While the Giants have appeared in 13, and they have won four World Series, and have lost nine.
Magley delivers a high fastball into the chin, that's ball three.
No balls and no strikes.
The count here on the Cleveland leadoff man, Al Smith, the left fielder.
He'll be backed up by the American League batting champion, Bobby Avila.
Time has passed for the moment, while West-western walks that ball partway back to the mound.
Sal Magley, and the bouncer for Niagara Falls, New York, turns his bat on Al Smith.
Lifts to the foreboard and centerfield, then turns around and places the foot up on the rubber.
Leans forward to take his time.
West-western again to pop him in as a target.
Now here's the motion.
Up over his head goes Magley, delivers that crooked-on curve and hits Al Smith right in the middle of the back.
There we have the first hit batman.
And Cleveland has their first runner in the 1954 World Series.
So coming up to the plate now batting at 3.41 in the regular season, Bobby Avila, the captain's side of Air Cruise Mexico.
Bobby Avila, who has done just about everything for these amazing Cleveland Indians this year.
Standing deep at the plate, about three-quarters deep,
drives up on it somewhat, hits him right-handed and holds up that way down to the mound,
despite the fact he's not a very big guy.
He's a fine hit-and-run man, particularly when he's on the bases, he'll play hit-and-run.
Al Smith leads off it, puts it, locks it on the inside corner.
Magley goes into the curve and the baby jumps back from the fast room, five-in to the waste.
That's ball one on Bobby Avila.
Sal Magley makes the motion. He doesn't want to throw that ball anymore.
And the new one is gotten out of the pocket and played on by Al Bart.
As Jimmy told you, the umpire is here this afternoon, Al Bartic of the National League, working behind the plate.
And we have, at first, Charlie Berry, Jocko Kerman of the National League at second, Johnny Stevens at third,
both Berry and Stevens of the American League.
Warnocky and Knapper on the far line.
Long Warnocky down the left-field line. He's at the National League.
And the right-field line, we have Larry Knapp.
Down the boat then, we have a left-hander warming up now for the New York Giants, John Middell.
Just in case Sal Magley should be having a little trouble with his control.
But there's one thing we can tell you, might be useful if we start shickily like this and settle down.
The pitch that they've got will be with the fastball over her slice.
One ball and one strike now, the count on Bobby Avila, hitting number two in the Cleveland order.
He'll be followed by Larry Doby. Doby, who has posted 20 years with the Cleveland Indians.
He's from the RBI leaders, their home run leaders.
He's played a lot of fine defensive centerfield.
But right now, we're centering our attention from Bobby Avila at the plate.
The pitch line is a curve ball thrown on by Avila, and that's out into the right-centerfield.
It's in there for the base hit. There goes Smith down to second base.
He's going to hold on. No, he's not going to keep on going.
As he'll have battled the ball, fires in quickly to third base.
Well, we'll get the official ruling on that for you in a moment.
It may be a hit and an error.
We'll know in a moment as Ed McColley, Ronnie Kumiko, and Harry Jones are discussing.
It'll be a single, the right-centerfield for Bobby Avila, and an error will be charged to John Mueller,
the on-charging right fielder who tried to field that ball and get it in quickly.
And the error, of course, allowing Al Smith to move around to third base.
So there is the first error of the 1954 World Series, charged to right fielder, John Mueller.
Well, we have runners at first and third now for the Cleveland Indians.
Nobody out top of the first inning.
Larry Doby, who on the regular season batted 272, is coming up.
He's a left-hand hitter, crowds him on the plate, holds that bat way down to the knob, and bats him across.
Into a playing double play, depth of the pitch is made to the plate.
Doby takes the pass ball, outside and high, just about at shoulder level, 4-4-1.
Tom Haggerty in trouble, grabs that rosin bag, he slams it down on the ground, turns around, shakes his head.
You can just sort of feel how stale, at this particular time, I feel.
Runners at first and third, his back is up against the wall, and he's in the World Series of 1954.
And he knows the chips are down, and they're big, and they're blue.
They're up here playing just about straightaway for Doby, slightly shaded around the right,
particularly John Mueller playing a deep right center.
Down comes the pitch pass ball.
Doby happens to hop off, off, off the third base line.
Hank Thompson over near the stands.
Can he get it?
I believe so.
And don't make the catch for the first out, and the runner's hole.
But Larry Doby fouls up and out.
Now one out here in the top half of the first inning as Al Rosen comes up to the plate.
Here's a guy who's always dangerous.
Al Rosen's the kind of guy that will give you all the competition in the world.
Al Rosen batting at a flat 300 for the season, has driven in 102 Cleveland runs in the regular American League race,
and has hit 24 home runs.
He's made that greater portion of the season with a bad hand and bad finger.
Al Rosen coming up to the plate right now, hitting in the number four position.
Lower born in Spartan Stoke, South Carolina, now makes his home in Cleveland, Ohio.
Shokes up someone on the handle, the back stands deep of an overly closed stance.
Al Smith leading down off third.
Bobby Avila off first, second is open.
Double play, that's on the giant infield.
The pitch is made, Swinlow makes a high pop-up.
He's in the first base, he's under it, waiting for it.
He's got it.
Al Rosen pops up and out of the first base from the Whitey Lachlan,
and now it's going to take more than that to get the runner in from third base.
The break, there's nothing, nothing's hard.
The Cleveland Indians started off right away by prepping.
Al Smith was hit by the pitch, then went down to second base on Bobby Avila's dunk single in the right center field,
and the overcharge by right fielder Don Mueller, he tried to steal that ball before he really had it,
tried to fire it over the third base, make sure that Al Smith didn't get there,
but in these excitement and in his hurry, he dropped the ball, and the narrower charged against him.
So here's McWhorst up at the plate now batting at 256.
He's going to powerhouse guy, hits well uphand it.
Sal drives the fastball on him, and misses with his shoulder high outside for ball one.
Outfield stand around the right playing deep, the right side of infield deep,
particularly David Williams in the hole between first and second.
He's back on the rim of the outfield grass.
Al Smith is holding the runner at the left first.
Pitch is made, wood swing, goes around the right field.
Don Mueller has to hurry.
He's back, he can't get it.
He's up against the wall in the right center field.
In comes Smith to score.
Bobby Avila's right behind him.
There goes McWhorst.
He's going to try for three.
The relay by Williams is nutting time.
A surprise by Victor Wirtz kicking in the third of a triple.
He's going to triple off the right center field wall, deep back by the giant both hands.
And there is the second hit to be given up by Sal Maggi here and runs one and two.
And the Cleveland Indians are leading here in the top half of the first inning,
about to score a two to nothing.
Dave Philly coming up now.
He's a switch hitter.
Dave Philly batting number six in the Cleveland order.
From Garrett's Blue Six, now lives in Parris Six.
There's a guy that's meant an awful lot to the Cleveland Indians this year by hitting play out in right field.
Maggi throws in the curve ball and it's high outside the ball one.
Victor Wirtz, who was well over to the Cleveland Indians after the start of his season,
he came to the ball of our Orioles who seems to rejuvenate Victor Wirtz and give him new life in the York, Pennsylvania boy.
And it just paid off here in the World Series with a triple of four to one for Cleveland.
Maggi delivers the curve ball to the plate, Philly slides in, doesn't offer, takes it high and that's ball two.
Two to nothing, favorite Cleveland here in the top half of the first inning, two down, one on.
Sal Maggi in trouble.
Delivers the big curve ball, won't swing, dumps it, there's a half-mile ball to the deep right field.
Going over to his right, getting under now, John Mueller back to the senior track.
Or the third and final out here in the first half of the number one.
So for the Cleveland Indians, they cash in with a pair of runs here in the top half of the first inning.
Two runs on two base hits.
There was one error charged to the Giants and there was one Cleveland runner left on.
So the score at the end of the top half of the first inning is Cleveland two and the New York Giants nothing.
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Right back at the business in hand here at the Polo Grounds of New York City
as we move into the last half of the first inning of the first game of the 1954 World Series.
The leadoff man for the New York Giants will be Wiley Loughlin, their spectacular first baseman.
He'll be followed by Alvin Dark, a great competitor at shortstop and captain and field leader at the ball club.
Then will come Don Mueller in right field.
If anyone else is needed in the inning, the National League batting champion,
Say Hey Willie May, in the center field and will be up there swinging lumber.
Bob Lemon from Long Beach, California, who appeared in 36 games this year for the American League champion
with an earned run average, as Jimmy Dudley told you, of 2.69,
is coming out there to do the picking now for Cleveland.
His battering mate, the very dependable Jim Hegan behind the plate,
a first base, Victor Wirtz, who has turned the fall game upside down so far.
With his triple, it's scored two runs for Cleveland in the top of the first.
Bobby Adela will be at second, at shortstop George Strickland, and at third base is Al Rose.
In the outfield, we have Smith in left, Wobin Center, and we'll get right field in a moment.
Bobby Loughman comes up there, first pick, Bobby Adela comes in, picks up shovels over to Victor Wirtz,
and that's all for Louty Loughman.
So it's time for Funny Play On in the top half, the last half of the inning.
Stay down there in front of the dugout, Leo DeRosa's walking back and forth.
He's talking to his boys.
He told you all of his World Series games, and would you like to know how he made out?
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Alvin Darn coming up there now, one out, nobody on here in the last half of the first inning.
Alvin Darn hitting right hand, about a.293 in the regular season.
Bob Lemon, 23-game winner for the Indians, delivers a curveball that misses inside and takes a ball once.
The right fielder this afternoon for the Green Indian Indians, and I don't believe we got to him defensively,
is Dave Philly.
So except everyone for him out defensively, as Bob Lemon chewing gum out there a mile a minute,
delivers a fastball that's low and outside to a right-hand hitter.
Alvin starts top 50 now, and two balls and no strikes.
One out, last half of the first.
The Giants behind is leading the score twice in their top half of the first inning,
so it leads to the nothing.
So as the boys are trading, they say they lost a little time in getting to it.
Lemon ready, delivers two and 0.
A fast curve, snaps off low and outside, and Bob will tell you all about that finger shot.
He's a pretty good slider, and his fastball will hop if it's working good.
So if it's lemon, he'll be first for the Giants.
At third is Herman Pratt.
There's the fastball, late curve and low.
Fastball four, and Alvin's off to 293.
Hitter has walked here in the last half of her first inning.
So there's the first base-one ball, given up by Bob Lemon.
He walked only 93 during the entire year.
John Mueller finished so high and then actually got in great for the foul, and he hit 342.
Behind is teammate Willie Mays, who must be nice to lead with 345.
John Mueller hitting left-handed.
He's not a long-ball hitter, but does a lot of punching.
He chokes up well on the handle, feet wide spread apart to stand feet to the plate.
Infield on the left side up, expecting the bunch of pitches made to the plate.
Low and inside, right down across the shins.
That's ball one.
The athlete playing standard on the right and not too deep.
Bobby Avila in the hole at second base is playing deep, but not back as far as the rim of the outfield grass.
Victor Walsh is leading first base and holds Alvin Goff at first base.
Alvin has a plate lead.
Playing a shallow third is Rose.
He's up almost on the rim of the infield grass,
expecting that Don Mueller might be kind of drop one down the third base line, thereby get on.
But Mueller right now represents a tying run after play for the New York Giants.
To the nothing table.
Lemon is ready.
Deliver, there's the fastball.
Swing-out, hit-out into 18.
It's going to be an air-ball base hit.
Bouncing up against the wall.
Fully plays it.
Mueller holds it first base.
The first comes in, Alvin Goff leads the third.
So Bob Lemon, who gave up 228 hits in the regular American League stages,
has given up his first World Series base.
The owner puts him in trouble.
That's the Giants with one down now.
The tying run's on.
That is the first and third.
Back in the World Series of 1948, Bob Lemon had an in-run average of 1.65.
Here is Willie May.
Here's the guy that a lot of the people here this afternoon have come to see.
Willie May is batting at 345, the National League batting champion.
A right-hand hitter.
He drives further past.
Lemon drives a curve and makes a gap.
It pops it up out into a very short center field.
Going back for the shortstop, Sipplund.
He's under it and makes the catch behind center.
He's behind second and center and the runner's holdout.
So May pops out on his first center field this afternoon to the shortstop, Sipplund.
Hank Thompson has been a surprise for the New York Giants.
He's defensively third base.
He used to be a coach hitter, not exclusively, a left-hand batter.
Hank Thompson batting a 263 on the regular season.
He's helped to come out this year by injuries,
but was able to be in the lineup when Leo DeRozan needed him most.
A short battery conference between Jim Higgins and picture Bob Lemon.
It's broken up now and Jim Higgins comes down from back behind the plate.
We're in the last half of the first inning of the 1954 World Series.
The Greenland Indians are leading 2-0 over the New York Giants.
With the Giants having a time run drawn, a third, Alvin Ducks, and a first is John Miller.
Second is open.
Al Rosy playing a shallow third base that's off the line and just off the third base bag,
holding Alvin Ducks' post at Pesco.
Lemon delivers to the left-hand hitter.
Thompson takes high and that's ball one.
The outfielder's standing around the right and playing deep.
Because Thompson will hit that long ball for you, particularly here at the polo ground.
He has hit 26 home runs in the course of the regular season.
Lemon leaning forward, takes the sign, goes to the top of the check,
comes down, has to take fields off the curve, is low and under the knees on the inside for ball two.
Two balls left right.
Last half of any number one.
A goodly crowd has come out here to see this thing.
All that's left to say is it's going to be one of the great world series of our time.
And well we can believe it.
When you look down the record to the three ball clubs, they seem to be pretty evenly matched.
And there's certainly no strangers to each other as they have played 20 of exhibition games in spring training coming over for the regular season prior to this step.
Lemon ready now to deliver to Thompson.
He takes a hit and he's playing, holds back and takes the pick out try for ball three.
Lemon will go a left hand batter.
A lot of that's a sliding step and a lot of that's a kick ball.
The crowd is playing nothing on Thompson.
Runners are first and third.
Second is open.
For a three down, he's scored three and two and they've got nothing.
He picks up his uniform.
A fastball to Thompson is called through one of the letters for the first called stretch.
Three and one.
The count on third baseman Henry Thompson.
Thompson leveled that bat off as he stands deep in the plate.
He's wide spread apart.
Coming ready, he goes back to living fastball.
Turn and it's first straight.
A top goal is after that one.
That one just counts for three and two.
Here's the ball who first saw the light of day in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Now makes his home in New York City.
First came up with an opportunity in the majors with the Finchers Brown.
Then in the American League.
Now it's time to take time between Jackson and the slow roller.
Back to first base.
That's where the victory works.
That's on first and the unison.
That's all here in the last half of the first inning for the Giants.
They can't even get no farther than that.
No runs.
There was one base hit.
He went on and the winner seems in error.
Well, the end of the first inning, the remainder of the game have been leading by the three runs.
And Al Rosie playing down there at third base certainly has been a ball work on this ball club for the Cleveland Indians.
His fighting spirit has meant an awful lot.
And Al Rosie wound up the three.
He's like the one of the girls who have an even three hundred batting average to strike the injuries he too has.
He's a mighty solid ball player, everybody.
One of the best 50 guys you see anywhere in one of the nights.
You can take it for real when he says from time to time I've had a lot of raises.
So I'm talking from experience when I say the one piece to that is the only way to come through on the two most important counts.
The girls look good and they see a girl.
Now that's for my words.
Now don't you think you're the one piece to that, Rosie?
It's the second inning here at the fellow Giants in New York City.
The Cleveland Indians leading 2-0.
And coming up now is the 50-tide of New Orleans, Louisiana.
George Cricket, the very fine, clearly caked up.
Little like the four, he's batting a 2-13 on the regular season.
But George was out for about six weeks with a broken draw.
Of course, they could have raised his batting average, had he played during that time, or couldn't have lowered it with all the things on the face of baseball.
The George Cricket toss from the right-hand hitter.
I certainly passed up that into the Cleveland this year.
I might have made the first pitch to him and fired the fastball outside and half a ball one.
George Cricket has driven in 37 runs over the period of regular season and hit six home runs in a row at the
Cripple season four and stuff in having done out with that broken draw.
A curve ball to Cricket is taken and it's over to Neesford called Trepp.
One ball and one strike.
Cleveland having scored two runs in the top half of the first inning.
The ball leading in the ball game by that mountain.
Moving up a little bit of a down.
Now they do this again, they've got a put it on curve ball,
just been trying to bounce it back to the screen.
The hit part moves to one ball and two strikes.
It's the last third of the Cleveland batting order here in the top half of the second inning.
Cricket's going to be followed by Higgin and then by that good hitter, hitter Bob Lemon.
Cricket taking back and forth and the step to the dugout.
Early ball, pretty ball, it's like a kid going down there.
Sal Magley, traveling down the path, not a particularly good game.
Fires away one and two, the curve ball, coming in the next quick-play three.
That is a quick strikeout of the 1954 World Series.
It's set up by Sal Magley.
Back in the 1948 World Series, Jim Higgin hit 211.
He found that record of Jim Higgins in the Genet World Series
after the book.
Well, that's a handbook to have around.
You get a lot of kick out of it, I know.
Jim Higgins on the regular season this year hit 234.
So he's turning in right now.
Sal Magley, ready to go.
He's gotten one man here in the top half.
On the second inning, he's got the match.
Celebrities, a curve. Jim Higgins is slowing out shot.
One ball, no strikes.
That's a concern.
By the very quickly World Series play, you can find that in the Genet World Series
record book.
But a lot of fast, he figures, information.
Magley's fast ball is swung under.
Higgins popped up right back at the man.
Coming in fast for the third base from Thompson.
Under, lifts up into the front, and then makes a pass.
So that's all for Higgins.
The three out front, the clock is ticking in.
Bob Lemon coming up for the plate.
Bob Lemon moving in.
Bob has been left handed.
Right to back, he's a right-hand faker.
He's been used on many occasions at Cleveland, all the time.
Magley tries to curve on him, and this is with it high on outside the ball on.
Red crest on the high on first base, closing over to Cleveland.
In through the home.
Once Bob to get on.
Down comes the picker, and there's that curve ball by Magley Mow.
That's all he is.
Time counts, he's playing shallow at third.
Right side of the infield playing great deep.
As David Williams is wounded back on the grass in right field.
Now he comes up to play on the rim of the grass.
Lock him playing back just about as deep.
Hold close to the line.
Hits Lemon, a short throw, the 10 right and curve over first ball step.
Two balls, one strike on Bob Lemon.
The wall of number 21, standing at the plate right now.
Down Magley.
Left foot forward, leaves forward from the line, takes his time from Westing.
Humps, hits and throws.
Another curve ball, it's been thrown on by Lemon and beaten down into the ground foul.
Two balls, three strikes on Bob Lemon.
Two down, nobody on top of the second inning.
The Cleveland Indians have in front, hitting nothing.
They sit in the middle of the plate, they score their two runs in the top half of the pretty city.
One after Smith with hit by a fifth ball, and a deal is singled in around the second.
A bottle in the outfield allowed their fifth to keep on going amidst the third.
Hit works triple in the right finish driving the third.
Now the fifth to play to Lemon to fastball, it misses ice drive for ball three.
Three balls and two strikes to count on Bob Lemon.
Bob turns around, says something to Westing, to both games.
Al Barley, the national league, the national league is the play down foul here.
And it's in, he's in down over the corner, Westing to take the lick of the next pick.
In it comes, high on ice drive to ball four.
So there's the first base on balls given up by Magley.
They walk 70 over the course of the regular season.
Bob Lemon, the guy he wanted to get it off by the walk.
And now the leadoffer, Smith comes up to the plate.
It is who is pushed in the middle of the back by a picked ball in the first inning.
So they set Magley off to a wobbly start.
But all number 35 down there usually won three times and he's been doing it so far.
Gets him here in the second inning, he's shut out.
He's been dropped out, he's good base for Hatton.
Lemon is now on the first base having been locked.
And here is Smith, the kick hitter, coming in.
This guy's really cleared up that ball for the first pitch.
Magley tries his curve and misses with a low and just outside.
Remember all those strikes.
Back to the second inning.
First game of the 1964 World Series.
From the Polar Ground to New York City.
We'll be back right here again tomorrow for the playing of the second one.
Magley, seven, all the time.
Flips over first base, watch as Lemon takes his lead.
Now he's ready.
Lemon's afraid of curve and just takes a nice and clear about the race first base.
One ball, one strike.
Williams has cleared a couple of steps over closer to second.
He's playing rather deep behind Smith.
He's playing just about straight away to Smith.
He can hit the long ball for you.
He's found an 11 home run over to Peaty.
Magley settles down, delivers to him.
Another hand curve, but misses just outside and low.
Good ball, one strike.
Six men in blue, watching the progress of this ball game.
Every one of them a fine empire.
We've seen them work many times over the course of the year.
Magley ready.
Fives, six, the big one on there.
There's a bounding ball, hits far left of third base on.
Fits right over near the crowd right past the third base post.
Tony Peaty, you know.
Here's a fine ball player in his day two, that's Peaty Mello.
That's on drive two.
And then there's Fred Kress, one of the two fellows that really helped.
Fred Kress is a leading coach at First State.
This is where he was playing golf after Fred Kress.
He was here at the grounds, I remember, in 1945 at the post.
Now they keep him delivered by Magley.
Down comes that hit, press ball, come on, hits far left back to three.
That's going up on top of the press section.
And it's loaded here this afternoon.
There's a lot of people covering this ball game this afternoon.
You can take a look at.
I think you'll be very happy to know that the ball game is going around the world.
All over the world.
Almost every available radio station is hooked in this afternoon to give up complicated sports projects.
Now Magley's ready.
Here's a two-two delivery.
Another hand curve is going outside mid-football three.
One of the big factors in telling this ball game around the world, of course,
has been the armed forces radio station.
Now they've hooked on with it again today.
There's going to be some activity down in the down both ends.
Down the middle is going to get up again, except tomorrow.
Down the middle, left-hander.
Now the three people to play.
Winner of the round, Pinnacle State, please.
Go got him on a low-football, just about to leave.
Right up, something's stuck out here.
As far as Magley's concerned, in here, in the second inning, no runs,
nobody's hooked to play them.
Lemon is locked, he's left at first.
No runs, no hooks, no balls.
One man left out.
And the plan of women happening to play this ball is to give them to Winner of the Round,
Nathan.
Look, Pinnacle State, he's got you.
He's got you.
He's got you, he's got you.
He's got you.
He's got you, he's got you.
He's got you.
We're at plant.
I saw him going up all the way.
I shot a drive and did some hard work, so I reached through两 Adamett and joyous
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Or a good drive, I'm all set.
We were fevered and worried because that young Party folks back in the posts the
Army Everybody.
So victory.
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Here in the last half of the session, we'll leave it in the New York Jazz as they come to bat. We'll have Maddie Irvin followed by Baby Williams and then by Worscliffe from the Chateau.
Maddie Irvin, value of $263.
In 1951, Maddie Irvin hit $458. He's up about 24 times, had 11 base hits and now 51 to $203. He's set a star at $203 and the Fast Food Uncle has certainly charged him considerable amount of credit.
The first set down is over $15.
Bob Lemon, working for him, is value of $252. Next set, swing around, hit off the end of the bat foul, rolling back into the ground, does that.
So, quickly now, the crowd-honed hitter has a counter-strike too.
There are two sets down, Maddie Irvin, to be followed by Baby Williams.
And you'll have Worscliffe. Bob Lemon, with a 2-1 lead to go on, takes his time from Jim Higgins.
Bob's real time just about 30-0.
The feeling, I think, is very deep.
Good call, they're high, up above the three-to-the-top, and just away from Higgins, bounces all the way back to the two.
That's nobody on base to stop at that. So that'll go as far as one.
Number two set.
Excuse me, ladies, in the first game of the World Series, 3-0, having scored twice in the top of the first.
Lemon, munching around with a 2-2 tap, nice chance to take the chance for Higgins.
Bob's really good at it, because he's not as heavy.
Maddie Irvin, with that bodyweight, moves up further.
Here comes a quick, Irvin swings around it, and sends a bounding ball off the third base line foul.
He's serving at the stand.
Third base line foul, it's going to be a two-win for the United League, and they'll go with a two-win.
The United League will go with a three-win, because they're going to be led on in behind their base.
Unfortunately, Bob goes to the mound of Bob Lemon.
Now, the set. Bob Lemon, one try, before they tell the game, kicks and throws a fastball.
Irvin, moving in the middle of the fastball, bounces head-butt to take the spin-high for ball two.
New ball, he takes from Maddie Irvin, first throw it up in the last half of the second hitter.
Take that lead in fast.
That's a steady touch, and there he goes, and he gets ready.
Ties the way through and a third ball, thrown on and a punch foul off the left of the plate.
So, Jim Higgins is going to be able to feel this one out.
He doesn't, and he's got it.
Well, Maddie Irvin's out of there.
We have the first foul, the foul out for Jim Higgins, and Williams is coming on.
Now, before Williams steps up there with his fastball, I think he's facing a benefit for him.
This is New Troll, the radio network for all America.
WDN Chicago, the Chicago Tribune station.
Now, baby Williams, who are on the regular season, batter 2-22.
Right hand here takes the fastball, forward throw by Lemmonford, called strike.
Gets right off the belt buckle on the inside plate.
This is the guy the Tribune Indians had a hell of a lot of trouble getting out of the spring exhibition.
That's a good one, that's a good one.
That's a good one.
The Tribune Indians had a hell of a lot of trouble getting out of the spring exhibition game.
You like the way the Tribune's picking up.
Hicks on the come on, there's a bounding ball, Hicks a third, Rosen on one half,
is up with a close first base of it, working time, and baby Williams is out number 2.
So, as we said, the first 5-3 roundout, if you're scoring with the fastball from the room.
What's this room?
A 187 header over the far side of the way, but it seems he is coming on to face the 23-game winner, Bob Lemmon.
Bob, as Jim Dudley told you, he won 23 ball games and lost 7.
The 12 shutouts, the Tribune Indians back from this year, Bob Lemmon, a count of the three of them.
Bob out there on the mound right now, ready to pick the worst of.
The worst of is powerful hitters, big set of race.
The kind of guys that he gives you the long ball, quite often.
He either hits them a country mile or he doesn't hit them at all.
And he had to hook the long ball into the stands for you, he said 8 home runs this year.
Lemmon's fastball is low and outside for ball one to Westland.
Herman Franks putting on the signs down behind third, he's relaying from the bench from Leo DeRoger.
Westland checks with him and steps back in as Lemmon comes down with an expected curveball,
and there's an unintentional foul back as Westland tried to check his swing,
but the ball hit the bat and went back anyway.
So that'll run his count to 1-1.
The 1951 World Series, West Westland hit 235.
Now we're ready for the next pitch on West.
1-1 delivery is a fastball outside.
Two balls, one strike.
Bob Lemmon, going to pitching here this afternoon for Cleveland,
has gotten past two men here in the second inning.
Spaces are empty.
Down into the corner.
This question is going to...
This coming up next, we have a lefty right.
That'll be close by going to the first back-flipping.
I want him, three days here in the second inning, let's get out.
That's a number three of Lemmon.
There's Tom Ager coming up.
Westland hit that ball so hard, he fell rapidly down the left-field line,
he kicked off the left-field wall.
He had no chance to try to make two out of it.
That ball was in the hands of Smith,
and he goes with Smith at a very fine arm and a heel,
and he's going to take the left hand out the hole to face.
A head-punch to Tom Ager with low curveball,
and he's going to go for a fast-attacking swing
with the spin up around that, so it falls against him.
Right down the count, Arm Ager.
Oddly right hand hitter, he's got a spreader-fire.
Lemmon's got deliveries on the goal,
and he's going to go at the peak of the cap of all-1.
Lemmon almost had that ball get away from him.
He doesn't want to use it anymore.
He passes it back to Higgins.
That ball is taken a look at.
He's got him past it here, like he's a lure.
Oh, he's almost five-and-a-nine to Lemmon.
He runs around out there,
and he's got the arms in his hands.
West from the base, he's got a nice, nice first base.
Here in the last half, he's got a little bit of a speed arm,
and he's got a little bit of nothing in place of Higgins.
Tom Ager has a good place to get down to one ball, one step.
And in the mound, he's got a little bit of a down-quarter.
Lemmon is ready to put the...
down-and-come,
might be close, low and outside.
That's all through.
The quick way he's been holding West Western on,
West isn't very much of a threat to go down the
second base in the big way.
You have a London guy in the way.
A little bit of a second-mast in the end,
but he's got a little bit of a speedy back.
Back-flap and fast ball, and he takes it to the knees.
It's passing the thing to the side.
There are two guys down the mound.
Two guys going on here in the second and the knees.
And the believers never have a full time on this ball.
That's three, and that's all for a time.
That's all for the guys here in the second and the knees.
As the believers have heard, he's got 110 steps out.
He's got a few things on top of his piston.
So, here in the second and the knees,
the guys like that, but no more.
No runs.
They're off one base up.
That's the grand test single in the last half-way.
But you know what?
I read one man years back,
saying,
I'm going to see if there's enough on my back to go.
And it's all through.
The only feeling to play now is to be there on the New West
side, nothing.
I'm going to move along into the top half of the number three.
I'm Bobby Avila, and we'll be the first to the rest of the team.
So, we're going to follow him and then the time will come.
After the man goes down my game to work for Bobby Avila,
he's feeling to play for the field.
A little dunker, drop in there, and he's got it going along.
He's on the third on the single, and then the guys are going out there.
He's had only one hour, and he's all going so far.
That's where his sunlight continues to be found here.
Everyone is sitting back and enjoying their things.
They're all feeling to play.
While West Ressie is getting on the field,
West Ressie is sitting up there and he's got his big lip warmed up
down there.
He's one of the big guys on this ball, Bob.
That's another big fella sitting on the bench right there.
He may be in the fourth all over,
because I've been in the fourth hole.
He's a big guy, 6'8", 4", a giant little guy, 3'4".
That's what the world says, what the good things.
1'10", 3'8", great, hard, another important fact about every player in the world.
You've got the good thing, you've got the new 1'10",
3'8", that's a regular thing.
So, Bobby Avila, Bobby Avila, Bobby Avila, Bobby 1-1,
now they're going up there, they're going to go 50-4,
a good curve ball, it slides off low and outside.
Now, you see the fast curve ball of his more,
and I've seen it all through the lawn.
Well, all these kids, we've heard they have three curves,
slow, slower, and fourth.
He's going to step on the mark here this afternoon.
Come to the end of the game, there's the fast ball,
it's going in by the air, there's a high pop-up in five territory,
directly behind the plate, Western was under it, he's got it.
Well, we have out number one here to commence the top half of the third inning.
Bobby Avila fouling out to West Western.
The batter coming up to the plate now is Ray Dolby,
who with runners at first and third and nobody out in the first inning,
fouled up an out, he's third base for Hank Thompson.
On that to go next will be Flip Rosen, Al Rosen,
shooting up in ball game in favor of the Cleveland Indians,
Ray Dolby hitting left-handed to well, number 14, stepping in.
Magnificent with the pitching there, too, and Dolby takes it outside,
that's ball one.
Shelby's standing almost straight up and down as he gets ready,
stands just off the plate, crowds up.
Thompson playing a shallow third and fouled out, lead the court seconds.
Magnificent fast ball, and this is our side,
shoulder high for ball two.
Two and nothing, the count on Dolby with one down here in the top of third and eighth.
No base runner, Cleveland leading two to nothing.
Williams continues to blow in from behind left field,
directly across the diamond about behind right now.
Magnificent, delivers two and nothing.
Dolby swings, hits the ground ball to second base.
Williams in front of it, on airing, close to first in time,
and that's off to Dolby.
Well, we'll see what's going on quickly here for Cleveland in their top half of third inning.
And now Al Rosen, who popped up in the first inning,
just after one left, just off the first base line.
Al Rosen, over one, a right-hand hitter.
Rosen's turning the end, beats the plate, left foot forward to it,
and over the coastline.
Takes the third ball, and he backs off and threw it to me for a strike.
Two down, nobody on top of third inning.
Well, Magley finally getting a little strong reach to go for long.
Delivers a curve, and Rosen swings and dribbles one up to third base line foul.
Rosen's count's back two.
Dolby Cucinello retrieving that ball and firing it in.
Rosen picks it up off the ground, hands it to Al Barlich, and he tosses it out.
Magley with a new apple out there on the mound, has it rubbed and ready.
Outfield band around the left and playing deep for Rosen.
Rosen hits that long and close.
Two more home runs he's hooked this year. Swings on a fast ball, fast curve,
and hits the ball off of the right of the plate.
Down holding on to the strike two.
A ball, two strikes, two down, top of the third, no base running.
Magley works a curve, swing around and hits deep for short step.
Alvin Dark off the right, upper, but hurried before the first base in time,
and a four for Rosen. Nice play by Alvin Dark.
Well, three up and three down here in the top half of third inning,
and for the first time, the Cleveland Indians go down in one, two, three order
with nothing to start.
And the score at the end, a two and a half innings to play, Cleveland 2,
and the New York Giants, nothing.
Well, I've got a hunt for two fans who'd like to hear from
Dodger's softball rookie, Carl Schooner, who crashed through with two
National League records in his first two major league games.
He got two consecutive shutouts and struck out 27 men.
He's right here with me now.
Carl, how did it feel to mow down 15 of those champion Giants
the first time out?
Well, it sure was a big day for me, Al.
And now tell them how you feel about a shaving cream shave
with the Gillette Super Speed Racer.
That gives me a great lift too, Al.
A French clean shave does it to me.
Well, thank you very much, Carl Schooner.
That's the Gillette Super Speed Racer he uses,
a mighty big package of shaving pumper for just $1.
The Gillette World Series record book is a text, and it's free.
Let's go into the last half of third inning here,
with the leadoff man coming up for the New York Giants,
Wiley Loughman.
Wiley Loughman stepping in here for his second at bat of the afternoon.
He came up in the first inning and tried to bump his way on,
a surprise play as it was figured to be,
and was thrown out by second baseman Bobby Avella,
winning the barehanded play fielded in five the first time to get it.
So that was the last half of third inning with the Giants trailing here
by the score of 2-0.
Jimmy Dudley losing some pretty good baseball so far.
Boy, haven't we?
They're absolutely right, Al, and it's going to boil down
against what the experts said, a real pinchy battle all the way
in just about every game.
Well, we have a couple of villains thrown out of out here this afternoon
that are well respected in their respective leagues.
So let's see what happens here in the last half of third inning,
Bob Lemon, 23-game winner for Cleveland,
takes the mound to pitch to Wiley Loughman,
left-handed hitting first baseman of the Giants.
This time Wiley takes the pitch and it's low and outside for ball one.
Wiley gave no indication to what he was going to do that time.
Outfield fan around the right playing rather deep for Wiley,
particularly Philly in right field.
Lemon comes in with an overhand fastball, it's low, ball two.
Wiley Loughman from Lowell, North Carolina,
now lives in Matthews, North Carolina.
Lemon set, California right-handed deliveries,
an overhand fastball, a good right throw for the East Fork Old Stock.
Two and one on Wiley Loughman.
Last half of third inning here at the Polo Ground, New York City,
very ideal day for the fall climate.
Shakeslee Water, an overhand curve for Loughman,
in there nice little cross right two.
Wiley was brilliantly at that one and changed his mind at the last minute.
Lemon, who is in Matthew with that curveball and that sinker,
also the slider,
has been pitching a fine ball game here today so far.
So it's a curve and what he thinks on there is a line top hit into right field,
dropped into the base hitter from the Philly,
and Loughman here in the third, leads off with a single to right.
And now here comes Elvin Vart.
That's hit number three off Bob Lemon.
Hit number five in the game as they clean the end end,
dropped Magry who got off to a shaky start, got a pair in the first inning,
a single and a dribble.
Just having had one man hit by the pitch,
that's him a pair of runs in, was tipping them in.
Alva Johnson trying to battle their way back here in the last half of his third inning.
Lemon with the chips down, Lee Fuller takes the sign.
Alvin Vart who walked in the first inning, still with his three game batting percentage of 293.
Takes a curve low for ball one.
The percentages we're giving you are the percentages over the regular season.
Now back in 1951 World Series, you'll find in the World Series record books,
Alvin Vart hit through 92.
Bob Lemon is set now, takes his runner first,
there is the plate, there is the fast ball low.
Two balls, no strikes, the count on Alvin Vart.
As tension starts to come on a little higher here,
particularly amongst the fans who are anticipating perhaps a giant rally.
We're not sure of the state, but for a giant one of this World Series,
I'd be underdog.
The only expert just picked Lee Lin to win the traffic.
Or else all of that remains to be seen, as long as the guy has got their swing in danger.
Picks a swing on by Vart, there is a shot from the ball foul off the third baseman.
Two balls, one strike on Alvin Vart.
Giant's had one man on here in the last half of third, that's Wiley Rockman.
He went from one to the right three in for a single.
He's the base runner, pretty good for the women's coaching there.
The second to play first base is Charley Berry.
Charley Berry, former Major League leader himself, football star,
an official, coach, and now very fine umpire.
Rob Lemon, Lee Paul will take the time from here to check his runner back over his shoulder.
Williams is picking the plate, fast ball coming in the back,
and foul right up over our microphone.
Two balls and two strikes, count on Alvin Vart.
A few balls goes in play now as Rob Lemon, standing out at the mound,
looks around, checks his outfield.
Busily rubbing this ball up so he can work the Vart.
One man on for the Giants here in the last of the third.
There are no outs, Wiley Rockman led off with a single to the right.
Victor Wirtz isn't holding him too tight, he's a couple steps back at his feeling yet.
Now the pitch.
Vart swings on a low curve ball and just as simple foul.
That holds the two balls, two strikes now.
We'll watch Wiley Rockman, he may be gone, he's always a threat to charge down the base pass.
The Giants are all in the regular season, stole 29 bases, the Cleveland Indians stole 40,
so there's a pretty good comparison of how these two ball clubs run.
Now we'll set for the pitch on Alvin Doc.
Rockman stole only one baseman in the regular season, credited with one steal.
Fast ball swung on the Doc, there's a high pop-up off the first baseline,
going back near the stands and foul territories, into the stands and out of play.
Two balls, two strikes, that's count on Alvin Doc as he comes back,
takes up that brown Betsey's ears and gets ready to go to work again.
Throw in this ball game, holding right on, a 2-0 favor to Cleveland.
They've made it hold up since the first inning to the Giants here in the third,
a threatening with Wiley Rockman at first.
The Giants are stranded three so far on the ball game.
Now we set, down comes the pitch, low and outside, Wiley-Lockman bluffed,
going to the second base.
Jim Higgins looked up to see if he was going to move, but Wiley fooled him,
he stayed right at first.
Three-two count now on Alvin Doc.
Now let's see what Wiley-Lockman's going to be doing.
He'll probably be up and moving with the plankward motion of Bob Lemon's right arm.
We'll keep a tab on him for you to see if he's going to be galloping.
Alvin Doc, pretty good hit-and-run man up at the plate.
He can hit behind it, run it pretty well.
Alvin takes his lead.
Three-two pitch, up there goes Lockman.
Pitch is swung on.
Hits back to the middle and the center fielder, Wiley-Lockman, keeps on galloping.
No, he picks up close in the second.
We have runners at first and third.
Just got through telling you that Alvin Doc was a pretty good hit-and-run man,
and he comes through on the three-two count.
Slams one in the center field, and now the end field will probably draw up tight.
We'll see.
Runners at first and third.
The tying runs are on for the Giants here in the last half of this third inning.
Nobody out.
Rosen comes in to play a shallow third base just off third, holding Wiley-Lockman close.
The second-base combination of Avila and Strickland-Dota double play death.
Works holds you under Alvin Doc at first base.
Up at the plate is Don Mueller.
Pitch to Don is a fastball under the lead.
Down on the bullpen for Cleveland, Ark Houdeman gets up and starts to throw.
Don Mueller, who singled the right field in the first inning,
would very much now like to atone for the error he committed in the very first inning,
allowing our runner to go from second to third.
An overhand curveball swung on by Don, hit down to second base.
Avila up with it and goes back to Strickland at second for the out.
As the run comes in to score, there's no throw to first.
So Don Mueller gets credit for batting in the first run of the ballgame.
Comes in on the fourth out of Alvin Doc, a play going from Bobby Avila at second base
into George Strickland at second base.
There's no throw on the first.
So it's now a 2-1 ballgame.
Give Don Mueller credit for batting in the run.
He wrapped in 70 over the course of the regular season.
So the tying run remains on as manager Al Lopez comes out to have a word of two with his pitcher, Bob Lemon.
Higgin is going over to talk with him now.
With one away, the Giants have a tying run on at first base,
and Willie Mays, the National League batting champion, is coming up.
Mays, who in the first inning popped up an out for the shortstop, George Strickland.
So it could be tightened right down here in the last half of third inning.
Or Higgin could hold the lead they now possess of one run.
Al Lopez asking instructions from Al Barlich, play on fire, by discussing some rule or other.
Now Al Lopez, very much satisfied with the explanation of the entire fair,
turns and goes off with a good one dugout.
Bob Holliman continues to floor down in the Cleveland bullpen, strong on the right-hander.
Now Willie Mays coming up to the plate, hitting right-hander.
He's 0-1 today.
Third ball thrown into the bird on the outside to Willie for ball one.
Don Mueller, who is much faster on the base pass than you think, is leading off at first,
and Vickworth is holding the inside corner on him.
By the Fitzsimmons coaching, Don Mueller off.
Down and into his position.
Now checks his runner at first, delivers the plate.
Low and outside to Willie Mays, for ball two.
Very unfortunately for Don Mueller, in 1951, a broken leg,
kept him from participating in the World Series.
However, he's getting his opportunity and playing in this one.
He leads off at first now.
The pitch plate is made, Mays jumps back from one of the knees inside for ball three.
You never know, as you see the pitcher spin one down from the rubber,
or home plate, whether it might be the deciding pitch in the ball game.
Sometimes when you go back over to that respect, that happens to be the pitch,
and you didn't realize.
Curve ball is low and outside to Mays for ball four.
So Mays walks, that's the second base on ball, surrendered by Lemon.
Now the tying run, and Mueller has been pushed on down to second.
Now the batter is Hank Thompson.
Third base from Hank Thompson, end of the inning in the first,
by rolling wide at first base, and Victor Wirtzkow will do that.
Rich Stover stepped on first, and the inning was over, as far as the Giants were concerned.
They had a pretty good putt going at the time.
So here's Thompson moving in again, heading left-handed.
He's deep, feet wide, spread apart.
George Strickland, in to say a word to pitcher Bob Lemon,
turns and cuts back to his shortstop position.
He's got a 2-1 ball game going here now in the last half of the third inning.
Giants tying run at second, end on Mueller.
Throws him playing a shallow third with his left-hand hitter.
And the first pitch comes in. Thompson takes it low inside for ball one.
Down to the bullpen, our Hoderman continues to crawl even harder.
Get ready, just in case Bob Lemon should call her here.
And what looks at this moment to be a rather important third inning, as far as the Giants are concerned.
Lemon gets set.
Delivers a fastball. Thompson swings, he doesn't get it.
This Bob Lemon is the kind of guy who isn't afraid to come in
with a pitch he believes to be best in the clutch.
A very fine competitor. This whole Cleveland ball club this year sort of caught fire.
They've been fine competitors over the entire route.
Lemon is ready now. Delivers, Thompson takes a lot of curve inside.
Oh, let's see, that'll be two balls, one strike on Hank Thompson.
One out for the Giants in the last half of the third.
They scored one time and it's 2-1 in favor of Cleveland.
Lemon out there, born his neck trying to hold the one run advantage.
His mates have given him.
Don Mueller representing the tying run for the Giants, leads down off second.
William Ayres who can fly, usually runs off under his cap, leading off at first.
Pitch to Cape Town, there's a bounding ball hit away to it, but they hit.
Here comes Don Mueller.
The throw is to try to cut William Ayres off at third.
He's flying over there and he's there safely.
The ball game's tied up.
So far, Lemon gives up at number five.
A single right field to Hank Thompson.
Hank drives in the second giant run, William Ayres shooting out out from under his cap,
made it to third, beat Billy Snow.
And a first for run coming in from second, tied by Don Mueller, scores easily to lock it all up.
And here's Monty Urban with one out, run as a first and third up at the plate.
Lemon curves him, Monty takes the pitch outside and low.
He started to go for it, checked himself in time, take ball one.
Monty Urban started the second inning for the Giants by fouling up and out to catch Jim Higgins.
So we've got a brand new ball game right here at the Polo Ground.
Giants threatening to break the tie with William Ayres on the third base.
Pitch to play to Monty Urban, the fastball, fire through under the letters, good for strike.
The count is one and one.
Bob Lemon in trouble.
No one knows it any better than Bob does.
Texas runner at third delivers, Monty Urban swings on our medium speed fastball and doesn't get it.
That's like two.
One ball and two strikes, the count on Monty Urban.
Here's another situation where a sacrifice flyer can get in the run,
and the course will not be charged at the time of bat to Monty Urban should that fly ball be forthcoming.
So Lemon is bearing down here on the clutch, and it is the clutch as far as he's concerned.
Thompson leading away from first. The pitch, this one on, there's a high foul ball hit back to the first section.
Rolls down the screen, back down on the playing field.
William Ayres hugging right close at the third base.
Herman Franks is keeping him there.
He's the third base coach for the Giants.
Rosen is playing deep behind third now.
Hold a couple steps off the line.
The outfield band around the left and deep.
George Strickland, he can hold a shortstop.
Bobby Evita, pull over a couple steps toward second base, and holding on to first base.
Keep the runner close.
Victor Wirtz.
William Ayres takes his lead at third, and wanders back toward third as Lemon pitches.
One-hundred-and-miss.
Lost like three, and that's all for Monty Urban.
That was the big out for Lemon to be getting.
That's his second strikeout here this afternoon.
And before the next man comes up to the plate, that'll be Davey Williams.
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Ready to go back to work here now with Bob Lemon stepping up the pitch to Davey Williams.
Davey, who bounced down to third base, was thrown out to second inning by Cliff Rosen.
Runners at first and third.
The pitch to Williams is over at the knees, nicely percocced up.
Davey Williams, who over the course of the regular season in the National League, batted 2-22.
He had quite a time with his batting average, but the kid never complained.
Shaded in there day after day and did the best he could.
Now Lemon ready.
Delivers a curve, and Williams strides in and takes time outside.
Count is one-to-one on him now.
A couple of guys in the Cleveland Ross here took their bumps and their aches and pains and said nothing either.
Larry Doby played quite a bit of a season with a pulled fire muscle.
Now Rosen did the same. He also had a broken finger. He played the all-star game with a broken finger.
George Strickland with a broken jaw, but he stayed right with it.
Curve ball swung on, but Williams bounced past the mound, a shortstop.
Strickland in, picks up, throws first in time, and Williams is out to retire to side.
That's a 6-3 ground out, short first.
So here in the third inning, the New York Giants come bowling right back with a pair of runs.
That one-two, three base hits. Two runs, three base hits.
No errors, there were two men left on.
That means they're stranded five and going to bat three times.
So the score at the end of the third inning play now is the, let's include the Indians too, the home-standing New York Giants too.
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Victor Wirtz here at the Polo grounds is going to be the first man up for the Cleveland Indians to start the fourth inning in a brand new ballgame, all tied at 2-2.
It was a bat of Victor Wirtz back in the first inning when he wrapped his triple off the right center field wall to score a pair of runs.
It was Victor Wirtz who put the Cleveland Indians out in front.
And now the wearer of number 23, a left-hand hitter, is coming up to the plate for his second at bat.
He has one hit for one drive.
Sal Magley has been placed back on an even footing with Bob Lemon as these two veteran right-handers go at each other here this afternoon in the first game of the 51st World Series.
Victor Wirtz moving in.
Overly close stance was a chin guard on his right leg to protect it.
He used to foul so many foul balls down off that shin that he devised the protection.
Magley's first pitch to him is just a little outside the ball one.
Wirtz to be followed by Philly and then by shortstop George Strickland who will belong in the top of the fourth inning.
Magley ready to limit that cook it on curve ball and gets it in there for a strike.
That gets quite a kick. I know as Jimmy Dudley does out of the motion of Sal Magley.
He sort of keeps that elbow cooked. Gives you the idea that he's throwing with a cook it on.
Another hand curve this time swung on by Wirtz, comes out on the left field, a pin-out for the base hit.
Victor Wirtz goes down to first and holds on as Marty Irvin comes up for the ball and fires it into Alvin Dock at second.
So Wirtz opens the fourth, hitting an outside pitch and dumping it in the left field.
See that's only the third hit.
Irvin given up now by Sal Magley.
We've had eight hits in the ball game all two.
Well the potential tie-breaking run for Clegan is on as Wirtz opens here in the fourth of the single.
That brings on Dave Philly who retired the side in the first with a fly ball to right field.
He's hitting left handed against Magley. Swings on the first pitch and dribbles one back to the mound.
Magley's off his only play, will go back to Loughman.
And Philly is out with Dave Wirtz, or rather with Rick Wirtz, moving on the play over to second base.
So he represents the tie-breaking run now at second. He's in scoring position.
That wasn't a bunt by Philly. He was swinging away.
Magley to Loughman for the put-out. We have one out and George Strickland who struck out in the second.
Getting Sal Magley with his first strike out of the game. Moving in.
Philly stepping off at second base now.
Thompson playing a shallow third to Strickland as the pitch is made.
Fired across the knees by Magley for strike one call.
George Strickland tall and slender.
New Orleans, Louisiana.
Strickland feed wide, spread apart.
Magley over his head checks his runner over his right shoulder.
Delivers the play. Pass curve. Swing on. There's a bounding ball hit down the dark. He's up with it.
Throws across the diamond in time. And George Strickland is out.
That's of course on the play holding right on at second as it was being made right in front of him.
Alvin Darks had a couple of tough chances going deep in the hole over to his right.
He's made the play.
George Strickland has had two hard plays and bounding balls hit right at his feet. He's come up with them nicely.
So all in all we've had some pretty sparkling plays on the infield here so far.
In some cases they have been routine plays but the boys have made them look good.
Here's Jim Higgins who came up in the second inning and was out number two in that inning by popping up and out to third base with Hank Thompson just off to the left of Pitch's mound.
Jim Higgins moving in.
That's a number eight in the order. He's from Linn, Massachusetts where he was born.
Now he's out in Lakewood, Ohio. Takes first pitch and a cross save. 40 American East for a strike.
Two down, one on. Lakewood's open with a single jump in the left field.
Moved down to second on the infield ground out by Dave Kelly and he's still there.
Still two-two ball game. When it's half of the fourth inning, it's a fuller round.
That ball is taken and turned to a guy.
Touch of Weston trying to get the runner but not in time.
The ball's pretty away from Williams. Goes on out into short center field.
So Victor Wirtz decides he better hold right on at second.
But there's no arrow on the play.
Weston's just trying to pick a man off at second base. He thought Wirtz had a pretty good lead.
So the count is one and one now on Jim Higgins.
There's Wirtz taking his lead again at second.
Jim Higgins standing at the plate with a count of one ball, one strike.
Sal Magley shakes off the sign offered by Weston.
Shakes it off again.
Once more he shakes it off. Now he's ready.
There he and Weston have gotten together and Jim Higgins decides they're taking too much time and steps away from the plate.
Count on Jim Higgins. The Cleveland catcher's one ball, one strike.
Second time up and he's 0 for 1.
Down comes the pitch. Crayball swung on to Higgins and popped out.
There's Alvin Dark at check-stop.
Waiting for it to come down. He's got it.
That's all for Cleveland here in the fourth inning.
They opened with a single left hit by Victor Wirtz.
He got down to second but that's as far as he could get.
No runs, one hit for Cleveland. They're a third of the ball game.
There were no errors by the Giants and one man left on.
Cleveland is now standing 3 and going to bat in for an inning.
So they score at the end of 3 and a half and into play now.
Remains Cleveland 2, the New York Giants 2.
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Now to the last half of inning number 4 here in the first game of the 54 World Series.
Still all tied at the 2-2.
Wouldn't want a better kickoff game than the one we're having here this afternoon.
A couple of veteran right-handers going against each other.
Bob Lemon for the Cleveland Wins.
A 23-7 record for the year.
And Sal Magna, a 14-6 record.
Both pitchers having pitch shutouts over the course of the regular season.
Both of them in their respective leagues called Mr. Tough when the chips are down,
and they proved it here this afternoon.
The first lineup for the drives.
The number 8 hitter in the order, West Westroom.
And the line shot single down the third base line between Al Rosen and third base,
having the left-field corner when he came up back in the second inning.
Lemon throws him the overhand fastball, and Westroom after pops it into foul territory off to the right of the plate.
I don't think anybody's going to get to that group.
That's back into the stand-ground to play.
Victor Wirtz and Jim Higgins both giving it a big run-down.
So the last half of the fourth inning, as Westroom still standing at the plate with the count of strike one.
For the Giants, two runs on five hits. They've committed an error right up from now.
And for the Friedman Indians, two runs on three hits off my day. They have not committed an error.
Lemon gets set. Let's see, Westroom.
Pitching the overhand pitcher curve ball.
One run and hit pass goes not into a third base.
Up past third base in the left field, and Westroom once again has single the left.
Well, there's hit number 6 off Lemon.
Westroom has picked up one third of them. He's had two.
Westroom leads off to the Giants in the fourth with a single to left field.
Now Rosen grabbed the fastball, but he couldn't come up with it.
Right past his glove and out in the left.
Nevada now is Sal Megley.
Sal struck out for second inning, one of the two strikeouts affected by Lemon.
Westroom leads it first.
The pitcher's made to the plate, expecting the Bucky infield charges in.
There's the attempt at bunt that's missed for a strike.
Sal will be watching Westroom.
He's got to play it safely too at first base.
Megley's got to get a hold of that ball or it could be plenty of trouble.
Infield pulled in expecting the bunt again.
Lemon delivers.
Megley squares off to bunt the ball and then takes the pitch outside.
That's ball one.
One ball and one strike.
Count on Sal Megley.
He's been sent up to the plate apparently to get that runner down to second.
Betty Fitzsimmons coaching down there.
He's talking Westroom off at first.
In comes the pitch.
And there's the plate outside as Megley ducks the bunt and takes the pitch again.
Two balls, one strike.
A little tense situation right now.
Two-two ball game between Cleveland and New York.
Indians have the Tommy Hawks out.
The Giants apparently wearing their hard hats.
Count on fastball.
They're running down the first base line to trickle foul.
So that's strike two on Sal Megley.
And the big danger of the bunt goes by the boards now as to bunt foul on the third.
When does the strike out?
Still you never know about Leo DeRosier.
He's very unpredictable.
He's liable to order Megley to go ahead and front of this one.
We'll have to watch that play before we make sure.
Let's see what Westroom's going to be doing.
Westroom now taking no lead at first.
Words on the inside corner holding him.
Rosen is still expecting the bunt.
It's playing a shallow third.
First to the infield.
That is the second base combination.
Move back.
Hopefully of course for a chance to get a twin kill.
There is the attempted bunt.
Miscompletely in the strike three.
So DeRosier kept it on.
Megley is out.
That preliminary is his third strikeout.
An attempted bunt was miscompleted.
So Westroom is still at first.
We have one out here in the last half before the inning on the New York Giants.
And Wadie Lachlan coming up for his third at bat of the day.
He's one for two.
Tried to bunt one past the mound in the first inning.
He was successful enough with Bobby Avila coming in fast.
He kept him through the first.
And that was all for Wadie Lachlan.
Wadie single the right in the third inning to lead the inning off.
And later came around the score and hit back through the middle and of course out.
Lachlan batting left-handed.
He hit it off today.
That is his regular season.
He hit 251.
Takes fastball.
Five by lemon under the knees.
Score ball one.
Outfield playing fanned around the right to Wadie.
The old man playing deep in the outfield is Dave Philly, the right fielder.
He's playing straight away right.
Playing deep.
Felt towards part way back and he's feeling that with his left-hand hitter up there.
Westroom leads it first.
Lemon picking.
Lachlan swings and beats him into the ground top.
Last half of inning number four, the first game of the 54 series.
All tied up at two and two.
Giants with one out have the potential tie breaking run on it first in Westwestroom.
Open with his second straight single.
Hit the left field.
Lachlan standing in straight up and down almost like a chocolate soldier.
Now leans over the plate slightly.
Lemon to the top of the stretch.
Texas runner at first.
Delivers the play to curve.
Wadie Lachlan swings.
There's a bounding ball hit to Vic Wurtz.
He picks it up, looks at second.
No chance to get the runner at second.
Stucks on first for the out on Wadie Lachlan.
Oh, there's the second out and Westroom has moved down to take station second in scoring position.
Coming up to the plate now, hitting right hand is Alvin Dock.
Alvin hit behind rather not behind but hit in the center field right at the backbone of the diamond.
Wadie Lachlan moves on at first base.
In the third inning, moved Wadie all the way around third.
Alvin Dock standing in.
Lemon checks his runner, delivers the plate, medium speed curve ball that whistles along outside to ball one.
Dock looks around at Herman Franks to take the sign.
Lemon leaning forward in that characteristic pose of his.
Left hand on his left knee.
Ball hidden behind his back.
Now he's ready.
Delivers the curve.
Dock swings, hits the ball wide to third.
Roses out, picks up, plays it through to first base.
Not in time.
Dock takes it out, Westroom takes third, and the Giants have runners at first and third.
Learned our stop by third baseman Al Rosen to keep that ball from going into left field,
but he couldn't recover himself in time and it goes as a base hit.
So Alvin Dock gets his second base hit.
He is 2-4-2 officially.
So Westroom is down to third.
Alvin Dock is at first, two outs, hit number seven off Lemon.
Check me on that, Jim, is that hit number seven?
That's right, hit number seven now.
Coming up to the plate now is Don Mueller, who has one of the seven base hits.
Got that back in the first inning.
Has a golden opportunity here to put the Giants out in front.
As with two down, they have runners at first and third.
Second is open.
Lemon delivers.
Mueller swings, there's a bonding ball to Victor Wirtz, who down on one knee picks it up,
reaches over in two steps, finds his foot on first base, and that is all for Mueller.
Well, that's all for the Giants here in the fourth inning.
No runs, they had two base hits, stranded two.
There were no errors.
So let's see, it'll be 2-4-6-7 men.
The Giants have left on here and going to bat four times.
And the score at the end of the fourth inning remains the New York Giants 2
and the visiting Cleveland Indians 2.
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Ready for the fifth inning now.
It'll be Bob Lemon that'll be the first man up.
Bob will be followed by the top of the batting order, Al Smith,
and then will come Bobby Avella.
We still have a 2-2 ball game cooking along here at the Polo grounds,
and the fans are ready to get the kick out of this one.
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Now here in the fifth inning, Bob Lemon, who walked back in the second,
coming up for his first official at bat, hitting left-handed.
Magme tries his first pitch, gets it in there low for ball one.
Magme...
locked in the pitching duel with Bob Lemon, to whom he is pitching right now.
Starts his motion, delivers one and all.
The fastball is under the knees for ball two to Lemon.
The outfield for Lemon is fanned around to right, playing him deep.
The well-hitting home runs, Lemon can do that too.
Magme... up over his head, kicks and throws.
The curveball, fast curve, is off the inside corner,
right on the inside corner, just off the belt.
Strike one.
Two and one, the count on Bob Lemon.
Cleveland's lead-off man here in the fifth inning, the 2-2 ball game.
Magme fires away at that play, two and one.
The ball is in the net, and the fastball is in the net.
Magme fires away at that play, two and one.
Curveball is over for a strike-and-call.
Magme, back to visit the rosin bag, snaps it away.
Grounds that ball around the palms of his hands, switches glove back on.
Lemon waits for him very patiently, standing about three-quarters deep,
straight away.
The 2-2 pitch by Magme, an overhand curveball,
swung on by Lemon and beaten foul into the ground.
Out holds, two balls, two strikes.
Curveball in play as it's walked partially back to the mound.
Magme will go back and finish scuffing it up as much as the law allows.
He'll be getting ready.
2-2 count here on Bob Lemon, top half of the fifth inning, first man up for Cleveland.
Here's the pitch, two and two, fastball swung on, and it's a straightaway center field.
There goes Mays, back still, going back under it, makes the catch.
There's no basket catch that time for Willie.
He had to reach up over his head to make the catch on that one.
Lemon, lining out the center field to Willie Mays.
So we have one out here in the top half of the fifth inning.
That brings on Al Smith.
He's coming up for his third time this afternoon.
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Al Smith taking the first pitch for ball one.
Stands up, pumps up back nervously as Sal Magme comes down with the next pitch.
So there's a curve in off the hips for ball two.
One out here for the Indians in the top of the fifth inning.
No base runners. Score still rides into a piece.
Graven scored in the top of the first inning on a pair of runs.
And in case you tuned in a little late.
Smith the Rudolph man was hit for the pitch.
He was single down to second base and when a bobble came in the outfield,
but on the other he kept on going to third.
Then after Derby fouled out and Rosen popped out.
Quartz tripled him home off the right center field wall.
There's a pitch at the plate now.
Under the knees to Smith. His count is still nothing.
Then the Giants came back in the third inning.
Loughman led off with a single.
And on the three to count Alvin Dark hit back to the middle to put Loughman at third.
Mueller got one run in when he forced Loughman at second from a field up to Strickland.
Then after Mays it walked, Thompson single the right field to drive in another run.
And Mueller scored.
There's a curve ball over for a strike.
Fast curve ball, just a little wrinkle and the count is three and one.
Three balls, one strike on Al Smith the leadoff man with one out here in the top of the fifth inning.
So a 2-2 ball game is still moving along.
Sal Magley takes his sign from Westrom.
Here's the 3-1 delivery.
Curve in there for a strike.
Sal didn't go to the fast ball, he flipped the curve.
The count is three balls and two strikes on left fielder Al Smith of Cleveland.
He's 0-1, struck out to second.
Swings on his pitch and sends a slow dribbler down the third baseline.
It's Sal Magley off the mound a field post, first not in time.
That'll probably go as a base hit for Al Smith.
We'll wait for the official scores to give us the official verdict on that one.
The scores here this afternoon are Ed McCauley of the Cleveland News,
Barney Crimeco of the New York Journal American,
and Harry Jones of the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
And apparently it's going to go as a base hit.
It's a base hit for Al Smith.
Very pleased to put him out all the way.
So that'll be hit number four off Magley.
Bobby Avila.
Bobby hitting right handed.
He has one for two.
Dumped a single to right center field back in the first inning.
Figured very much in the uprising.
He got the Cleveland Indians a pair of runs.
And Avila came along in the second inning.
Or rather the third inning, far enough to be catching.
Next curve ball that's flipped over first strike.
Magley, going with a string on that one, getting in there just about waist high.
The runner at first base is Al Smith.
Magley checks his runner first, looks down at Avila, comes in with the curve ball,
and Avila takes it outside to fill the first, trying to get Al Smith out of time.
So Wester apparently called for the pitch out.
Down in the bullpen for the Giants, the veteran right-hander, Marv Grissom,
and the left-hander, darn little of both, warming up and getting ready in case
Sal Magley should have any difficulty here in the fourth.
Sal may have pulled a bad back when he went after that slow-bounding ball,
hit off to the left of the mound, to his right.
Curve ball to Avila, swung on.
There is a high fly ball deep in the left field.
Monty Irvin is under it, it's going to be a routine chance for Monty, he's got it.
And Smith has to come hurrying back first.
So Avila flies deep to left field to Monty Irvin, proud number two.
And the batter coming up now will be Larry Goby, the left-hand hitting center fielder.
Let the ball crowd in home runs with 32 this year, and also runs about an indy part, 126.
To and through the score here between Cleveland and the Giants.
We're in the top of the fifth inning.
The possible tie-breaking run for Cleveland is on at first base.
There are two down, and Magley's about to pitch now to left-hand batting Larry Goby.
Larry Goby, originally from Camden, South Carolina, now lives over here in Patterson, New Jersey,
number five in the full-o ground.
The pitch to him is a fast-court outside, the ball one.
Goby's been quite a competitor since having come up with the indents.
Another hand curve to him, it's high off the face, that's ball two.
Larry Goby very clean to put.
The fellow that can give that ball an awful long ride if he gets good solid wood on it.
Al Smith, the runner at first base for Cleveland.
There's Whitey Lockman standing behind him as he takes his lead.
Magley ready pitches.
Swung on, there's a little loopy fly ball hit out into right field.
It's going to drop in there for the base.
Smith is on his way, moves on into third base as Mueller's throw comes into Alvin Darkett's second.
So Goby looks one into right field.
Al Smith running on the blow with a pair down, moves into third, and that's the fifth hit given up by Magley.
And Westrom goes out to have a talk with him.
So all the Cleveland Indians are cooking up a little brew here that might be kind of bitter for the Giants to take.
All depends on what Sal Magley's able to come up with here in the top of fifth inning.
He's going to pitch to Al Rosen.
He's popped up to first base to Whitey Lockman back in the first inning,
and then retired to side in the third by hitting a ground ball sharply to shortstop to Alvin Dark.
Now with runners first and third, second open and two down, Rosen comes up again.
All game tied at two apiece.
Magley with his work very definitely cut out for him, a set.
Checks his runners at both stations.
An overhand curve ball was thrown to Rosen, slung on, and popped up into right field.
Don Mueller comes over for a routine chance and right under it, makes the catch to retire to side.
The Cleveland set passes for the boards here in the top half of fifth inning.
No runs, there were two base hits for Cleveland.
They're in their total of five.
There were no errors for the Giants, and Cleveland left the pair on to run the total air to five.
So the score at the end of four and one half innings of play now, it is Cleveland 2,
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And now, ladies and gentlemen, it's been a terrific kick for me to be able to do the first four and a half innings
of the first game of the 1954 World Series.
And I know you're down to hear a guy that Cleveland's been listening to for quite some time
and Cleveland's been liking for quite some time because he's a likeable guy.
Cleveland's fine broadcaster, Mr. Jimmy Dudley.
I have the opportunity of working the all-star game with Jim,
and I have the opportunity, just as you have now, to lean back and listen.
Jim, come on, fella.
Thank you very much, Al.
And now it's football in the last half of the fifth inning with the score tied 2-2.
Willie Mays, the giant center fielder, steps into the batter's box, a right-hand batter,
and Bob Lemon is ready to work to him.
Mays in the first inning, popped out, and walked his second trip to the plate in the third.
Here's the windup.
The first pitch, Mays swings to ground ball, the Rose in the third.
Big hop taken.
Here's the third at first, and Mays is out.
Mays grounding out.
Rose in two works, 5-3 in case she is going along with us.
Bob Lemon, one of the most feared pitchers in the American League.
A boy who keeps that ball low all the time.
The umpires will tell you that he is one of the roughest in the business to call,
and the other fact that most of his stuff is from the waist right down to the knee.
Hank Thompson, left-hand batter, steps in, takes a strike with a fastball,
nicking the inside corner knee-high.
Thompson in the first inning, grounded out, the first baseman assisted,
but singled into right field in the third.
The windup. The next pitch is outside.
The count even up.
Ball one and strike one.
The score tied, Cleveland 2, New York 2.
The Indians broke on top, scoring two runs in the first inning.
The Giants coming back to tie it up in the last of the third.
Bob Fielders playing Thompson to pull, deep and well around to right.
The one-and-one pitch, a swing and a miss.
He was out in front with it.
Strike two.
Ball one and strike two to count.
Lemon has given up a total of seven hits.
Magni, five.
The entire World Series between these two ball clubs promises to be just the same way.
Nip and tuck all the way.
Either team capable of coming up with an attack at any spot in the batting order.
The one-and-two pitch.
Ball two, outside, a fastball, broke away.
Ball two and strike two to count on the batter.
Thompson stands very deep in the batter's box.
Bobby O'Hela back to the edge of the outfield grass,
midway between first and second.
Here's the windup and the two-two pitch.
A swing and a miss.
He struck him out.
Thompson goes down swinging, two away, and the batter, number 20, Monty Irvin.
Up twice, he is 0 for 2, fouled out his first trip in the second inning,
and struck out in the third.
That, by the way, was a big out for Lemon.
And that a fly ball would have given them the run to put them ahead.
They play him straight away.
First pitch is too low.
Ball one to count.
Al Smith deep in left field and straight away.
Here's the windup.
The next pitch is a struck cause with a curve hitting the outside corner.
The strikeout on Thompson, by the way, was the fourth of the game for Bob Lemon.
He has walked him in.
The score is tied 2-2.
You're in the last half of the fifth inning with two out and nobody on the bases.
The windup and the pitch is inside, too close to the batter.
The count moves to ball two and strike one.
Herman Franks coaching at third base for the Giants.
Freddy Fitzsimmons, one of the game's great stars of the past, at first base.
They'll be deep and straight away in center field.
The outfielders have a lot of room to roam in center, right center, left center.
The two-and-one pitch is runner.
There's the drive going deep and high out into left center.
Roby moves back to step of two.
Waiting as he snaps the glove, he makes the catch and the side is retired.
Herman giving the drop a throw with a long fly ball into deep center.
Three up and three down for the Giants.
No runs, no hits.
And at the end of five, the score is Cleveland 2-New York 2.
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Well, at the halfway mark, in the five innings, the ground crew now are grooming the infield.
While they're so doing it, let's pause ten seconds for station identification.
This is Mutual, the radio network for all America.
WGM, your exclusive World Series station, Chicago.
Back at the Polo Grounds in New York City, the scene of the playing of the first game of the 1954 World Series.
Going into the first half of the sixth inning, it will be Vic Wirtz leading off for Cleveland.
The five innings, Turtles on the ball game, Cleveland 2 runs, five hits, no errors.
The Giants 2 runs, seven hits, one error.
Western throw to second, David Williams over the top, to Thompson and back to the pitcher on the mound.
The veteran, Sal McKee, drawing that all-important assignment of hailing the first game.
Facing him now is Vic Wirtz in the batter's box. He has two for two.
A triple in the first inning to drive in two runs, a single in the fourth to lead off. He was left-handed.
First pitch, he swings and wraps a line drive into right field, another base hit.
Coming over fast forward is Don Mueller. The throw is to first base. It's over the first base from Ted.
And it gets away from the catcher. First base is to second, makes the turn there and holds up.
Western chases for the ball, back to the stands.
Mueller's throw surprised everybody.
Whitey Laflin, the first baseman, lead for it. He had no chance to get it.
And it's an error charged to Don Mueller on the throw.
He's taken the works into right field and a throwing error charged to Don Mueller, his second error of the ball game.
It was a rough break on him. And you sort of hate to see a ball charged with an error when he's thinking.
And that's just what Don Mueller was doing. Realizing that Wirtz is a slow man, he figured him to overrun.
And thought he might have a chance to get him back at first base.
And it was a bad throw and he is charged with an error.
Wirtz is on second with nobody out in the first half of the sixth inning.
And stepping into the batter's box is Dave Philly.
Philly has switched it in, batting left. Takes ball on outside.
Philly came to the Indians last winter after batting better than 300 with the Philadelphia Athletics.
He's done a fine job as one of the better defensive ball players in baseball today.
That is not a rough luck in the hitting department.
Here's the stretch by Magli. Quick looks to run it back at second.
The pitch is all too high and outside. Doing no count on the batter.
Philly has been up twice. He flied to right field in the first inning.
Round it out, pitch it to first in the fourth inning.
But you never know where it's going to come from.
These two teams are tough from the top to the bottom in the batting order.
Wirtz has a good lead off second with nobody out. He'll play it safe.
The outfielders are pulled around toward right for Philly.
They turn up in pitch. He swings and pals it back to the screen.
The count is two and one. Ball two and strike one.
Warming up in the giant bullpen, the left-hander down little and right-hander, Bob Dissom.
Ready for action in case manager Leo DeRosha should need them.
Ed Dress, the Indians' first-base coach, shouting down to Philly.
Get hold of that ball.
The turn one pitch. On its way, he swings and grounds one off.
It hits his glove. Magli scrambles, picks it up, can't make a play at third.
Throws to first and Philly is out.
Wirtz moving to third base.
Good recovery on the part of Sal Magli. He knocked that ball down with his glove,
scrambled for it, and got Philly, a fast man, at first.
Alvin Doth, the giant captain, and shortstop in talking to Magli.
Now Weston goes out. Make sure that he is all right.
One away in the first half of the sixth inning.
Philly has grounded out twice.
Now to the pitcher.
The batter is George Strickland.
Shortstop.
He's in the second inning and grounded out to the shortstop in the fourth.
Went away, a man unfist.
Left side of the infield is pulled in a bit.
Now the right side in about halfway.
First pitch to Strickland. He swings and fouls it off to the right,
coming back into the stands out of play.
Strike one.
Strickland was injured the first week in July
at Yankee Stadium in a game against New York.
Marlon Stewart, New York Yankee pitcher,
hit him at third base trying for a force play.
The ball deflected off the third baseman's glove and broke his jaw.
He was out about a month.
Here's the windup.
Next pitch is too high.
Ball one and strike one to count on George Strickland.
Infield in, they'll try to cut this run off at the plate.
Magley, of course, hoping to make Strickland hit the ball into the dirt.
One out.
The score is tied, two and two.
Warts leading away from third.
The next pitch, a swing and a foul tip.
Getting past the catcher and coming back to the screen,
it is now ball one and strike two.
Magley, while winning 14 ball games,
losing only six during the regular season,
proved to be DeRosha's stop pitcher,
that pitcher for the big, all-important game.
Thus he drew the assignment for this first game of the World Series.
Antonelli, of course, was the big winner for the Giants.
In action now, the one and two pitch, a swing and a fly ball hit into short left center.
Alvin Barker's going back for it.
He's under now and makes the catch.
Warts holding up at third base.
The score and they're two gone.
That, another fine-touch ball player going back to take charge of that fly ball in short left center,
would have been trouble for Mays or Marty Irvin.
So Warts is on third, they're two gone, and now it takes the base hit.
No longer will the sacrifice fly, the fly.
And it is left to Jim Hegan, the Indian stretcher.
Up twice, in the second inning he popped out.
In the fourth he popped out.
Right hand batter.
First pitch to him is ball one, too low.
Magley, being very cautious,
a pitcher who would waste his fastball and then make you go for the curve.
Ball on the count, end of the windup.
The next pitch is swung and a ground ball down the third base line.
Knocked down by the third baseman, up with it, the ball, a 13-pound.
Beautiful recovery.
A fine recovery on the part of Hank Thompson.
That ball was right over the bag.
He knocked it down, scrambled for it in foul territory, and got his man with a fine-at-retro.
And Hegan is very fast.
So the Indians get no runs.
They had one hit, there was one giant error, and one man was left on the bases.
So we go into the last half of the sixth inning with a score.
We've been to New York, too.
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Well, the Indians had something started there, but failed to carry through,
as Tom Magley buckled down and closed the door on Vic Works, who let off with a single,
and moved up on an error.
Moved to third, as Philly grounded out, but failed to score, as Strickland and Hegan went down.
Now the Giants come up, ready for action in the last half of the sixth inning with the score tied.
2-2, Davey Williams, second baseman for the Giants, steps in, right hand batter.
Clement hitching up the trousers, little habit, but he's had all of his baseball career.
O'Kage, the sign from Hegan, outfield is a straightaway, the pitch to Williams is ball one, too low.
Ball on the count.
There's the windup, and his next pitch is swung on a ground ball to the shortstop,
big hop, taken by Strickland, a throw to first, and Williams is out.
Williams grounding out, Strickland, two words.
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One away, nobody on, West Westrom is the batter.
The Giants catcher has two for two.
First midterm, he swings and wraps a line drive in the center field,
Dolby coming over hard is under it and makes the catch.
Two away, Westrom, lining to Dolby in center.
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A good hand for Sal Magley as he steps in, two out, and nobody on.
He takes a strike over the outside corner.
Paid with a bunt motion but let the pitch go by.
Magley has stuck out twice.
Then his next pitch,
and he's down again in order.
Magley out, first baseman of pitching.
And for New York in the six, no runs, no hits, nothing across.
And at the end of six, the score, Cleveland two, New York two.
Say hey, that's Willie Mays, the giant wonder boy as he sparks the Giants.
Neal DeRosha says Willie is the greatest player he's ever seen.
The last day of the season he quenched the hitting frown,
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Well these two pitches have really settled down to their business.
Magley gave up two runs in the first inning,
and has hung the horse collar on the Indians.
Clement was tagged for two runs in the third to tie up the score.
Here in the Mutual Broadcast booth today, we're mighty proud of this little fact.
This is the 5,000th baseball broadcast by the Armed Forces Radio Service
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It's estimated that our listening audience during the series,
about 110 million people. Big Al, that's a lot of people.
Man, I tell you frankly, I'd like to have a hot dog session for that many people.
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All right, it's play ball in the first half of the seventh inning.
Lemon leads out, he swings on the first pitch and pops it up right by second base.
Alvin Doth, shortstop, is under it. He has it for the first out.
Lemon popped it out.
Doth is certainly one of the great players in this series.
He has played previously in 12 World Series games.
The Indians remember him, of course, in the 1948 World Series.
He's a member of the Boston Braves.
And they've seen a lot of him in spring training.
Here's Al Smith, the leadoff batter, number 32.
Swings on the first pitch, it's a ground ball to the third baseman, Thompson.
Caps it nicely, the bullet first and Smith is out.
Smith, one of the surprises of the 1954 season for the Indians,
came to spring training more or less for the ride.
But they got a look at him, he got a break, and he remained in the lineup.
It's been a great help to Al Lopez and his tribe this year.
They're two out, and the batter is Bobby Avila.
He has one out of three, a single, in the first inning.
Right hand batter takes ball one high and inside.
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Next pitch turn is outside and lower curve ball breaking sharply.
Ball to no strikes.
Doing nothing on the batter.
They're two out and nobody on.
The outfield playing Avila straight away, hits to all fields.
Here's the windup.
The next pitch is swung in and a line drive to Thompson at third.
He's out.
Avila, line two, and Thompson at third base.
And the fans are really getting a big thrill out of this,
as the two pitchers really knuckle down.
For the Indians in the seventh, no runs, no hits, nothing at all.
And they're going to the last half of the seventh inning.
The score is Cleveland 2, New York 2.
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The seventh inning, the last half coming up, at the Polo Ground, New York.
The home of the Giants, champion of the National League.
The lucky seventh inning, a tradition in baseball all these many great years.
Leading off for the Giants, Freddie Loughman, lay at the top of the batting order.
Loughman has won out of three in the third inning and scored the first Giants.
He scored a two and two. Loughman, ready for work, walks into the windup.
The first pitch is a strike call. The ball drops down very quickly.
The fellow at one time played the outfield, died the infield.
The pitching became one of the greats.
The pitch is swung on, outtripped into the dirt.
The pitch is feet by Loughman. The count is two.
Loughman is recognized as one of the team's fine competitors.
The two-ball crowd started out the 1954 season in training in Arizona.
They traveled back from Arizona to their respective trees and lakes and now meeting here in the fall.
The count strikes you on the bat.
The pitch is swung on and a half.
To a feeler on the second up, taken by the second baseman, the third up first, and Loughman is out.
Loughman is taking out a feeler to score three.
Loughman has retired eight men in a row, and Magley has retired six in a row.
Then the last half of the inning is scored tight.
Alvin Dough steps in.
The pitch turn is ball one, high and inside.
Hence, where the special aid head gear and their bat.
Mindful of their old field helmet.
The pitch is swung on.
A third pops it up.
The third base out of the field goes in, moving quick in front of the Indian dugout.
And he has it. Almost misjudged it as he's looking up into the ground out to out.
I know that Rosen is not traveling on the full speed.
That leg is still bumping quite a bit.
Has a full muscle.
It's too difficult for him to move quickly and very fast.
So they're two, nobody on, and he's on the other stepping in.
He has one out of three and the score to run.
Left hand batter, he takes a strike.
A fast ball to the inside corner.
Talking to Indian pitchers, while they have all the respect in the world for Willie Mays,
they fear this boy, Mueller.
Next pitch is swung on and hit fouled out the back of the baseline, outside the bag.
Foul strike two.
There's a ground hugger and a ripper that almost stayed in there fair.
Got to go over that back, remember?
Can hit it, over any cost.
Umpire Charlie Berry on the first base, fouled it.
He's strike two.
Two-prick and league umpire on the first base side.
And out in right field is Larry Natt.
Next pitch is joined up.
The next pitch is swung on and a line driver thinks into left field.
But just shot and fair.
The base hitter.
Mueller makes the turn at first.
Smith's throw back to the inside.
Holds him there.
Havashtuck, and it brings up Willie Mays.
That little incident right there will give you some idea of why the Indian pitchers and others have such respect for Don Mueller.
With two strikes on him, he whips one to the opposite field.
Willie Mays, looking for his first world-fiery hit, stepped in.
He's got to go for two, I think.
He walked in the third inning.
Right hand batter.
The dynamic ball player.
First pitch to a bow and outside a curve ball, breaking down and away.
Mays is the batting champion of the National League.
One of the most publicized young ball players in the history of the game.
Number 24.
Smith is deep and straight away in left.
They'll be deep and straight away in center.
Don Mueller on first with two out.
Fast half for the seventh.
The score is tied.
Demons pitch is swung on and fouled back to the stands out of play.
The count is even up.
Ball one and strike one.
Yes, sir, there's always plenty of excitement at the old ball yard.
And this one is no exception.
The first game of the 1954 World Series.
The Indians versus the Giants.
Ball one and strike one to count.
Demons checks for a sign.
Draft hand down on his knee.
Up with a stretch now.
Quick looks to runner at first.
The pitch is ball two, outside and low.
Two and one to count.
Indian pitchers, of course, remember Willie Mays from spring training,
but he is entirely different Willie Mays now.
No longer does he go for that bad ball.
Two and one to count.
There's the pitch.
Swung on and the ground ball is hit to the shelf.
Strickland up with it.
Close to Avila covering second.
Mueller's force for side is retired.
Strickland to Avila, forcing Mueller for the third out.
And in the seventh inning for the Giants, no runs.
One hit, their first hit since the fourth inning, by the way.
One man left.
And at the end of seventh inning, they score Cleveland two, New York two.
A moment ago we were talking about Alvin Dock.
Well, the last time he was up, just in this inning, they got him out.
A pop bow to Al Rosen.
The first time that the Indians have gotten Dock out today.
Yes, Mr. Dock came into this series with 12 games under his belt
and a hefty batting average of 292.
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Now we head into the first half of the eighth inning.
The score tag, Cleveland two, New York two.
Larry Doby will be leading off for the Indians.
Here is the official attendance at today's ballgame.
52,751.
A fine crowd to get the World Series off.
And as the experts have said, this promises to be one of the greatest World Series of all time in attendance.
And returns, of course, financially for the players in the league.
All right, Doby steps in, Magley's first fixture, and he swings and grounds it foul down the first baseline, out of play.
Doby has one out of three, a single his last time up, single in the right field in the fifth inning.
He was one of the top hitters in the 1948 World Series, the Indians versus the Boston Braves.
And of course was the RBI champion of the American League this year, home run champion too.
Here is ball one, high and outside.
A fastball got away from Magley, took off.
Bringing a few oohs and ahs from the crowd.
One in one to count.
Doby clutched over the plate.
When they pitch, he drops to the ground to avoid being hit.
Ball two, high and inside.
Another fastball.
Doby really takes a toehold in the batter's box.
And as the boys on the field, on the bench will say, he hounds the plate.
Looks mean up there as the pitcher looks toward him.
The two-one pitch, ball three, high and outside.
Doby was ready to swing away on that two-and-one.
It takes ball three instead.
Three-and-one to count now.
Outfielders both deep and well around to the right.
Right side of the infield, deep.
Doby first, Davey Williams with second.
On back is Al Rosen.
The three-one pitch, Doby swings and he misses.
He's stuck two and the string is loose.
Full count of three-and-two on the batter.
Magley has given up six hits.
Score is tied, Cleveland two, New York two.
And Magley checks with a catcher, Weston.
Works into the windup.
And here's the playoff pitch.
Ball four, inside and low.
Doby works in for a walk.
That is the second base on balls given up by Magley.
He has two strikeouts.
And again we have action down in the giant bullpen.
Down middle, the left-hander, who has really been getting a work out during this game.
And Mark Whissom, right-hander.
As Al Rosen steps into the batter's box.
Whissom and Little getting ready down in the bullpen in case they're needed.
Whissom was a great help to the Giants this year, winning ten while losing only seven.
Al Rosen steps in, a right-hand batter.
And the first pitch to him is ball on inside and low.
Doby on first, leading off with a base on balls.
Tie score, two and two, first half of the eighth inning.
Magley turns and throws to first, but Doby is back.
Magley, on that particular throw, walks toward the rubber.
Turns quickly and flies to the first pitch.
Doby leads off.
Here's the stretch.
The pitch is thrown in a ground ball.
Not down by a drive for shortstop.
Picks it up.
Second, too late.
All hands are safe.
And Rosen is at first base.
But again, he was moving with a decided limp.
And it is a base hit.
An infield hit for Al Rosen.
As he hit one just to the right of shortstop guard.
He knocked it down with his bare hand.
Tried for Doby at second, but was too late.
And Rosen gets his first hit of the day.
Runners on first and second, nobody out.
And the batter is bit worse.
Now, Lachman moves in from his position at first base.
And Thompson is in close to the edge of the infield glass.
Time is called, however.
Westrom goes out to talk to Magley.
And now, Freddie Fitzsimmons, first base coach,
starts out of the giant dugout.
Gets a call from Leo DeRosia, the manager.
Turns and looks back to him.
Umpire wearing a nap, waved in to see one of the boys warming up.
Down middle, left-hander is ready and serves Marv Grissom.
Big right-hander.
Jack O'Connor, second base umpire, moves in.
And Fitzsimmons indicates that he wants the left-hander.
Down middle to come on.
He has won nine and lost four this year.
So that is going to be all for Sal Magley.
Magley has given up eight hits.
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Nobody out here in the first half of the eighth inning with a new pitcher coming on.
So let's take a look at Magley's record.
He has worked in seven innings of the game.
He has given up two runs.
He's leaving two men on.
Should they score, they'll be charged to him.
Gave up a total of eight hits.
He walked two and struck out two.
That's James.
That Magley has given up just seven hits.
Thank you, Al. Seven hits.
And the new pitcher, Don Little, and Magley making the long walk from the ground
two-centimeter-feet plan to the clubhouse.
A picture going out of the game near the polo grounds
has just about the longest walk into the dressing room of any baseball club.
So Little is taking his warm-up.
And while we're waiting, let's pause ten seconds for station identification.
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And this is WGN.
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Now back at the polo grounds in New York, the new giant pitcher, Don Little,
out on the mound.
Al Lopez, the Indian manager, came out to talk to Al Rosen.
The runner-up first, Rosen was limping very badly when he went down the line,
but evidently he is going to stay in.
I know that he wants to.
Don Little, the tander, is ready to work.
A bowl of hits from Mount Carmel, Illinois.
Five-ten, 165 pounds.
Little occurred in 28 games during the run of the season
and earned run average of 3.07.
Left-hand pitching out against left-hand batter Vic Woods.
Runners on first and second, nobody out.
The first pitch by Little is ball one, high and inside a fast ball.
Slender bill, but he has a well of a good pass.
Rosen on first, three on second, nobody out in the first of the eight.
Score tied two and two.
Next pitch is a spike with a curve hitting the outside corner breaking away.
Vic Woods, the Indian for the placement up there now, has the perfect day at this point.
Three hits and two to the plate, triple and two singles.
Go then, the Indians two runs back in the first inning.
Little is ready on the pitch.
A bunch of high-fives, popping through the air, but nobody can get to it.
Hank Thompson, the third baseman, tried so did Little, the pitcher,
but neither could reach it, and it is ball one and strike two.
Well, that's a life for words.
An attempted front, he popped it foul down the third pitch line.
Ball one, ball one and strike two.
Batter on deck is Dave Philly.
Toby drew a walk.
The count three and two took the ball from Rosen, single to the shut up,
which was a force play on Dolby.
And Rosen has given credit for the field hit.
Nobody out.
Little now, two for a sign.
After this pitch, a look back to the runner at second.
It's his 100th birthday crowd going deep out into the half-court.
Here is Rosen back slow going home, and he makes a beautiful shot.
And Dolby tags up at second and moving to third.
What a beautiful, beautiful catch by Willie Mays.
Ladies and gentlemen, for those of us who have not seen too much of amazing Willie Mays,
we know now why they talk to him so very much.
That was one of the most spectacular catches we have ever seen.
That ball was hit to the wall in right center.
Well over 400 feet away from home plate.
And Mays was racing with his back turned to the right.
And pulled it down over his shoulder.
We're getting a pinch hit him for a foot kick.
Here in the opening it is Hank Majeski.
Majeski batting for a filly.
And here comes 25th Simmons out of the giant dugout.
There's a possibility of a new pitcher.
Mal Grissom has been warming up and is ready to hit him.
Yes, that is what it is going to be.
And you can see Mal Grissom is being called in.
Hank Majeski has a batting average of 281 for the regular season.
I have a bat average that doesn't tell the entire story.
The government has really been a tremendous asset to Al Lopez and his tribe this year.
He has moved in to play third, last, second, and has been a great help out the plate.
Many of his hits, driving and runs, have won ball games for the Indians.
And now, five minutes coming into the game, we're going to get a switch in pinch hitters.
Mitchell is coming out of the Indian dugout, swinging a couple of pats.
And it is going to be Dale Mitchell batting for Hank Majeski.
And the fans are getting a big thrill out of this battle of strategy between Al Lopez, manager of the Indians,
and Leo DeRoscia, the manager of the New York Pats.
But this is world series and championship strategy as well as championship play is so very important.
Lopez now comes out of the dugout, and to his pinch hitter, Dale Mitchell, who is out to the left of the plate.
Thirty-Fiftths seminal, he's hooked up into Bob Gerson.
And there's Don Little making his exit from the team after catching one-third of an inning.
It's to one man, Nick Wirtz, and Wirtz flies to Willie Mays defense and a play.
This seminal is 110 and lost to the Indians.
And as any giant fan will tell you, he has been a great help to the Giants.
He has been in a total of 56 games.
Giving you some idea, but often he has been called in from the broke end, stopped the fire, and gone and saved a campaign.
So he's won 10 and lost his 7.
Probably saved many more for other starting pitchers.
Check your total average, 2.34.
2.34.
Remember these two men on the plate, Dolby and Rosen, are charged to the starting pitcher, Sal Magne.
So while the score is tied, leading to New York Giants 2, Magne could be the losing pitcher in this fall game.
up-to-roach here is going to have men ready.
He has the left-hander and the right-hander warming up in the broke end.
The score tied, two in the first half of the eighth inning, one out of the head.
The Indians have Dolby on the third, and Rosen on first.
Darat essentially has passed the commission, and they've won the last 2.
There is that lower deck.
The Pacific team has got saw a round in the left as well.
At 5- comprised.
Mitchell has a lifetime batting average of 3 feet in egg-league play.
Has not seen too much action this year.
Batting average of 283, used mostly as a penchetta.
Next pitch, he takes ball two inside.
Almost got away from Westlakecatch.
On the call, a left-hander, knuckleball, right-hander, forming a giant bullpen.
First on first.
Delvia's on first.
Went out in the first half of the eighth inning.
Bento.
The next pitch, ball three outside.
Mitchell was ready to go for it.
It held back and got its three in the thing.
Mitchell stands deep in the batter's box and while he can pull, out to right field, he's capable of hitting the ball field.
The next pitch, ball four high and outside and on fourth base that runs.
Mitchell takes a walk.
The bases are loaded.
The first and most of the second, Delvia holds it third and Mitchell takes over at first base.
The batter, due, has dropped his pitlin but now he is being called back and is going to get a penchetta.
David Pope, number 34, is coming out for the dugout.
Pope is going to hit Pope Pitlin.
Pope is a rookie outfielder out from Indianapolis of the American Association.
David Pope, number 294 for this year, is the Indians' in-60 ball game.
Hit four home runs and drove in 12 runs.
He's both fast and has a lot of promise as a coming star of the future.
The PMA Association, he practically tore that pitch apart the last couple of years.
He's a stand batter.
Pope, that is for the second.
First pitch, he's third and caps his foul on the first base line, throw back into third territory, but it has been fouled off his foot.
Strike one, Delvia on third, Rosen on second, Mitchell on fifth.
One out in the first half of the eighth inning.
The Indians and the Giants battling in the first game of the 1964 World Series tied up two and two.
Pope now steps back into the batter's shot.
Down near the deep, it's straight away right.
Willamette pulled over, throw back center just to show you.
Big ma, Gryson, right-hander.
On the rubber.
Works into a short windup.
The pitch, foul one, a fast ball, high and outside.
It's an exciting moment.
You hear the call of grounds at the top.
They count one and one on the batter.
The Indians attempting to break it down.
And Gryson, the third, Dan Hurley, trying to close the door.
On deck is Jim Hegan.
Here's the wingback.
The next pitch, just swinging him out.
Just catching the ball.
That was the back two.
Pope went for the fast ball.
Wilhelm and McCall continue to warm up for the game.
Wilhelm, the fast ball.
Left-hander.
This is a level for the Indians.
One out.
Closed the eyes on the windup.
The next pitch, swung on and out into the stands.
Down the left-field line, going into the second lane.
Out of play.
Ball one and strike two.
Red Crags, in a close base, starting encouragement down to the center.
And the man, Tommy Cucinello, working the coaches' backs at third base.
One out.
Good ball in play.
Chris, the crossing, they'll be very close to the third.
Here's the wingback.
One of the pitchers, Red Crags.
He's put him out.
A left-hander's back is one of the big strikeouts of the World Series.
Yet, of course, for some, there's a lot of action that can be more important than that.
Striking out left-hand batter, very close, but the bases loaded.
And now Jim Hegan is up.
Fans are still talking about William Marys and that great catch.
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All right, Jim Hegan is up.
The first pitch coming on ten.
Ball one high and inside.
Ball in the count.
They're two out.
The bases are loaded.
Third tie, two and two.
Markham, big right-hander, relief pitcher for the banks.
There's the pitch.
Hegan swings and pops it up.
Off to the right of the pitch.
Weston makes him point.
He can't get to it.
It's back onto the top of the dugout.
Good run by Weston, but he couldn't reach it.
And the count is even.
Ball one and strike one.
Hegan hits that ball right on the fist and cracks his back.
That boy brings him another piece of wood.
One and one, the count on the batter.
Jim Hegan, he is 0 for 3.
They'll be let off for the walk.
Weston singled off the shortstop's hand.
Works by deep to center.
And Mitchell walks, batting for Nogetski.
The bases are loaded with two out.
Here's the wind up.
And the pitch. Hegan swings and pops it back out of play.
Strike two.
Ball one and strike two to count.
And now with the count in favor of the pitcher, Weston, south to the pan.
Walks out to talk to Grissom.
Pats him on the seat of the pants.
They're two out.
The spare time.
The Indians got two runs in the first.
The Giants tied it up in the last of the third.
First half of the eighth inning.
The runners move off.
They're ready to go with the crack of the bat.
They're two out.
Grissom's still watching, go big, closely.
All right, the one and two pitch.
Foul back.
Hegan got a piece of it to stay alive.
Boy, that was a foul ball.
It came right back into the press box in the run of the cameras.
One of the television cameras on duty covering today's ball game.
One and two count.
Mitchell on first.
Rosen on second.
Doby on third.
The two out.
The outfield is a straightaway.
Grissom taking plenty of time, cautiously.
Into the wind up now.
The pitch is swung and the ball's a drive going deep high.
Out into left field.
Really amazing.
Back to the wall.
A rather money-o-gum.
Hegan's going to have it for the out.
Monty Edmonds standing in front of the 315 pitch mark.
Right on the warming pass in front of the wall.
Pulled it down.
And fanfare is a great, great thick of the new pitching.
John Little and Ralph Grissom closing the door on the Indians.
They get no runs.
They had one hit.
There were two bases on balls and three men left.
And going into the last half of the eighth inning, the score is Cleveland 2, New York 2.
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Now, here comes the first pitch.
Now, here comes the second pitch.
Now, we're standing.
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That takes Al Magley out of the game. It is now Mal Grissom's ball game to win, to lose.
Changes in the Indian lineup at Shot Top. Sam Denty. Sam Denty is a Shot Top for the Indians, and Hope goes into right field.
Dave Hope in right, and Dick Chook. Denty playing first World Series game.
The batter for the Giants is Henry Thompson, the third baseman.
One and a half-turn batter, one and a half-turn on our side.
Indians had a glorious opportunity. Hinks Holtie Cap is on it.
And it's still a tie game, but the Giants now are back.
Thompson has one of the three, a second of the game.
And he's going to hit the next hit, and it's still two-fifths of the right field.
And that bat is going to be fouled, just on the wrong side of the white chalkboard.
Foul, bat, hit.
Like one of these 52,751 fans are watching that ball every, every inch of the way.
The shot-ticking sore withers, Hope in right field, with bat in the number seven.
The next hit, six-foul, down the first base line, out of play, the
And Denty, with the finger-sharp stab, is hit in the number five.
number six-foul.
All right, lemon is ready. All one and a half-turn to count.
Hello.
We're hearing some of an infection right now. Denty, it's short.
Here's the windup. The next hit, swung on in a half-turn, up foul, hit back of the play, coming back into the stands, out of play.
Egan shot it back four, but no chance to reach it.
Denty, in four-one and strike two.
That field is pulled around to that right.
Johnson filling the crowd with a wallop off the right field wall, but foul.
Johnson, Nevada, on deck is Monteer, then.
The next hit, eight-hit.
The next hit is coming outside, ball two, even up, two-hundreds and a half, on in Hank Johnson, third base line.
The wind is still strong, coming out of the south-east, going across from third to first.
Hit foul down the first base line, field it by a third-hand man, a one-hand shot.
It's a battle now between Bob Griffin and Bob Lemon.
And certainly, you have to give a big pat on the back to me on the left.
The energy, ball in the left, down middle, got left, and left, got the left side.
To Johnson, he's ball three, outside, and the swing is out.
Go count of three and two.
There's the windup, and the big pitch is all four, high enough fast.
Johnson coming through the base on balls.
That is the third walk, given by the linemen.
And the batter is Monteer, even.
Even is 0 for three, fouled out, and fired out.
He's trying to third base close up, comes into turn.
Now we have action out in the end, both hands, Ray Norlesky, rookie right-hander,
and Al Newhouse, trying to warming up.
Who has it?
Ray Norlesky.
First side, turn it over to the giant, have a runner on first, with nobody else.
Comes from the base runner.
The batter, Bundy Irvin, right-hand batter, starts over the plate.
Rosen moving around the grass.
The pitcher goes to front, right out in front of the play, a beauty.
Hegan is up with a 10-point play at second.
Goes to a field, a cover, a first, and Irvin has gotten a perfect factor play.
As pretty a front as you want to see, he jumps right out in front of the base.
No chance to play armor runner at stuff in a fall, a perfect factor play.
One gone, and the batter.
First out, 2-4, capture to the second baseman, 7.
So now it's a runner on second, one away, and baby Wiggins, step 10, he is up to three.
He's down to about three times.
Right hand batter, hits ball one, outside and low.
Ball on the count.
Now the giants have a right-hander warming up in the boat.
Number 49, knuckleball, Hara Holhelm.
They want him out there in case they get down there,
and about whether they have to use a pinpitter.
Remember, no case at this time.
He's down, ball one.
The pitcher, ball two, outside and low.
Two and no count.
Hank Thompson, a fast man, is on second.
The outfield, pulled around, dropped left.
Williams.
Ball to no stretch.
Batter on deck is western.
Then it has his hand up to the stretch now.
Look back to the runner.
The pitcher's swung on the ground ball to the left side of the infield.
Dosen comes in, takes it.
The runner's holding it second.
Williams is out on the close, close play.
Hiding by a step, works to him, leaning into the infield.
For that throw, that Williams, just by a step, a fraction of a step,
they're two gone.
The runner is still at second, and the batter is west-west from.
Williams going out, rows into works by three.
This broadcast coming to you from the Polo Grounds in New York City,
the hall of the National League Champion New York Giants.
The first game of the 1954 series, and the first is an indicator
of what the others are to be.
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The score is tied two and two.
Fast to the eighth.
Two out.
The Giants have a runner at second.
Hegan and Lemon had a little conference out there,
midway between the mound and the plate.
Weston has been a surprise in three trips to the plate, he has two hits,
two singles in the lead.
Right-hand batter, Lemon checks the runner back at second.
First pitch, Baldwin outside, a curve breaking wide of the plate.
Baldwin to count on Weston.
They'll pitch carefully at Weston with the pitcher due next.
And on second leads away, the pitch Weston swings and misses.
He went for the slider.
Strike one.
Ball one and strike one to count.
A lot of the old timers will tell you that a slider is just a nickel curve,
but not so in the case of Mr. Bob Lemon, who really explodes that thing
when it breaks away.
Little sharp break-up.
Up in position, Lemon backs off the rubber.
Weston steps out.
Count is even one and one, a tense moment in the last half of the eighth inning.
Thompson, the base runner at second, ready to travel.
The outfielder's pulled around to the left.
Up in position, Lemon looks back to the runner.
The pitcher's swung in on a high pop-ball as he's back at the plate.
Hegan coming back, he understands that he will not be able to get it.
He drops onto the screen out of play.
A large area gives the catchers and other players plenty of room to travel
with foul balls.
Third base and back to the plate.
Whitey Loughlin, the leadoff batter and the man on deck for the Giants,
calls Weston over to the second.
Thompson for a few seconds.
You know, these ballplayers are always working with their business,
thinking all the time.
The man on deck, like Whitey Loughlin, here with the pitcher,
maybe he detects a little motion.
It might give away a curveball or a fastball.
So he passes it on to his teammate, the man who happens to be up there
in the batter's box.
That's what makes the championship play the kind you see when the teams
reach the autumn classic, the World Series.
One into the count, the next pitch fouled back to the screen out of play,
and the count remains.
Ball one and stack two.
There are two out, and the last half will be played winning.
Run it up to Thompson.
And the ballgame is passed to New York, too.
Thompson left the box, will sacrifice the second,
but remains there, fully grounded out.
Thompson taking three for the nine.
A big man up there.
And catch it.
He leans forward to the glove box.
He looks into it.
He's fine.
The next pitch is outside the play from the catcher.
Hank Thompson makes the catcher, but holds up.
And an end to cover the plate.
And it is a wild pitch.
A wild pitch.
That's it.
We've had just about a track out.
A wild pitch.
Spectacular winning there.
It's in center field by Anderson Farms.
Good base front.
Thompson moving a home.
Coming about his box.
He's trying to take away that.
And he works into it.
And he's going to the center field.
And he tries to save.
He's a work.
He's really late.
That ball this afternoon.
He's playing him for it.
He's retired.
No runs for the Giants.
There was one walk.
One man left.
The score is 6-2, New York 2.
Now fans back at the Polar Grounds in New York.
Going into the first one.
The score is tied.
Here are the 8-ending tokens.
3 runs, 2 runs.
No errors.
New York Giants 2 runs, 8-ending.
And 9 left.
That's a ball game.
For the leadoff that.
Let's pause 10 seconds for the radio application.
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This is WDN, your exclusive World Series station in Chicago.
The bounce play ball here in the 9-10.
Off-hook is the leadoff for the Indians.
Walked once in 3 trips.
This is the first pitch to Lemon.
Ball went high and outside.
All 10 hits collected by the Indians were off the top of the bag.
The starting pitcher.
Ball in the count.
The next pitch to Lemon.
Each pitch to the Indians is strike one.
Lemon is recognized as one of the top hitting pitchers in the game.
Out to the surround third right.
He takes ball two outside.
Two and one to count.
Lemon has won quite a few of his own games this year and in other years with his hitting.
And just a couple of seasons ago that he came up with one home run.
One season.
A fine record for a pitcher.
Of course he had previously played the outfield.
Off the on strike one to count.
Wilson works into the windup.
The pitch is swung out and fouled out into the stands after the touch of the plate out of play.
That is even up two and two.
Lemon left the second batter.
Popped out his last hit to the plate in the seventh inning.
Wilson locates the sign.
The pitcher pitch.
Ball three outside and the string is out.
It's a full count of three and two.
Just to add to the evenness of this ball game each team has had three bases on ball.
The count three and two on Lemon and the playoff pitch.
Coming up swung a short fly ball into left field.
Coming in fast to Johnny Heuven he's under it and makes the catch almost to the shortstop position.
After the win pull that ball back in so that he can field.
Jack could have taken it easily but he saw that Montee Heuven was not to run.
Rather than disturbing perhaps risk a collision called him on for it.
Run away.
Lemon pops to Montee Heuven.
Here's Al Smith the Indians lead off batter.
Right hand side takes the fastball out to the hit of one.
This is a picture of Magley in the first inning and score the first one of the ball game.
Check out the missed hit.
And he feels scratch hit in the fifth off the pitcher's glove.
And he found it out to the first as well.
He's up to seven innings.
Ball on the count.
Touched over the plate waiting.
And next pitch as they strike the fastball.
And down the middle the county ball on and strike one.
Smith gets a lot of bases on the ball.
He crowds the plate.
One and one to count.
So his next pitch is inside all the hitting.
Smith spinning out of the way.
And the county ball to the first one.
Now we talk about those innings, hits, rebounds, hits.
Well, this is just like line.
The next pitch is a fastball is hit out into Montee Heuven going back now closer to the plate.
He makes the catch.
He stands there to give him the call.
Hit high to Heuven and let's go.
So Heuven has made the last three outs.
He hits the long fastball like Jim Higgins in the stuff of the last.
Back to the 315-point mark.
He got the two out and nobody on.
Bucky O'Hill has got the end of the batter's bow.
Right on today's ball game there's been only one extra day's hits.
Big words here.
They've put Smith off the right center field ball.
First pitch is up here.
His ball went outside.
Little pepper clock second base.
One out of four.
The single hitter's hitting.
He's got a good ball player.
He's had one of his best players.
He takes his strike.
That's what he has in there.
The count is one point.
Until I hit 15 home runs in the last season, a lot of people wonder where he gets his power.
Good wrist out.
One and one to count.
He's got a swing and a miss.
Right through.
Also, the Regions are really enjoying this first game of the 1954 World Series.
The folks all around the world, too, are enjoying it.
The folks here, do you?
They have great excitement here at the Polo grounds this afternoon.
That one and two on the batter.
Nobody on.
Two out.
The prior score, two to two.
Cover straight away for a field.
End of the wind up.
Gets away from the cap.
Away from him.
All to him.
Two and two down.
The gang had the bases loaded and the race had a failure score.
They found a bit of relief searching on the part of Dunlap.
They found a bit of relief searching on the part of Dunlap and Barclayton.
And the gang caught them after five-third, the failure score.
The county's doing too. Larry Dillman, they come back.
First half of the beginning. Here's the length. And the two to six.
And it was Irvin's job that the wind played a very important part in holding that ball.
And Larry Dillman actually brings it back on the end field.
It's an error on Monte Irvin, the third giant error of the game.
And the dealer is on second. With a tie-breaking run.
Larry Dillby is the batter. Weston now goes up to Mark Grissom.
And they're going to give them an intentional pass.
Left-hand batter. And in front of the fact that our legend, the clean-up hitter, is on deck.
They take him left-handedly. How did he left-handedly?
Then there'll be a full hitter. And the left-hand batter was the wind of the favor.
Left-hander Danny McCall, Wendon McCall, and right-hander Hart Wilhelm warming up in the giant bullpen.
Or there's ball four. And Dillby takes his walk.
An intentional pass. The second lucky hitter's had.
And the second walk given up by Dillby. This one intentional.
The winner's on first and second, making the first play possible, of course.
And brings up a right-hand batter.
Al Rosin steps in. He has one other court, an infield hit, off Alvin Dahl's hand, last time up.
And it's pulled by two outs. First pick with all one outside. That one's a good work.
Watch the look around to the left. The party over and beat him straight away, playing the sun field.
What did they hit? Over and left and left.
This one next to Alvin Dahl's and down to the back of the captain's mask.
Turn left and then the left, a brief hit.
Gets to a three-point up, can really hit it.
Ball one and second. Alvin is on second. Dillby is on first with two outs during the first half of the ninth inning.
Four-tide Cleveland through New York two.
Frank Thompson, deep in position, up there at base, low back of the bag.
Duff covering the top shot, moving around.
Ever alert, waiting for the play. Rosin back in the batter's box with a down ball one and second.
Get them up to the stretch.
Let's back to the runner's second. The pick is up two with a half-ball, way higher to the inside corner.
Ball one and second.
One into the county, the head of the back of the ground, has him in the hole.
Let's get him ready on deck in case he gets a chance to come up.
Runners will travel with a crack at the back, they're two outs.
Rosin, okays the turn, in position. There's the pick. It is Barclay outside.
Barclay and cut to the turn.
The runner in front of the face, let's get the move.
Now Rosin, let me clean up that up at the plate.
They'll be with a long lead out first.
Let's hit the pitch.
Foul, back to the screen, out of place.
Count the names, two and two.
Rosin, while he is at slugger, will change up as the pitcher, at one time, at a time, he'll see that his hand's right on the other end of that bat.
Other time, he moves up on the bat.
He'll hit the right field at the right time.
Instead of slugging for the long ball, he tries to let that pitch, and will bring a run home.
Two and two. He's one of the game's great competitors.
Aggressive, hard work.
There's the pitcher pitch. All three, outside and low, and the swing is out at the full count, and the runners will be moving with the pitch.
Runners on first and second, two out.
The count three and two.
Now Lopez, the Indian manager, is talking the dugout.
Lowell, walking back and forth.
Near the racer right down below us, doing the hitting.
The left field is now moved straight away.
Here's the stretch.
The runners are moving. The big pitch is swung on, and they've got a five-ball into left field.
Marty Irvin moving in, under the scenario.
He has it, and the Tigers retire.
And there is another great bit of picking on the part of Mark Gissam.
He's been a whale of a relief heller for the Giants this year, and is proving himself again this afternoon, and this World Series.
For the Indians in the ninth, no runs, no hits.
An error, and a base on balls, and he's been well-off.
So we go on to the last half of the ninth inning of the score, 7-2, New York Giants 3.
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Moving into the last half of the ninth inning, the fans coming back.
The picture, Mark Gissam will be the leadoff batter.
Then to the top of the batting order, Whitey Lockman, Calvin Dowd.
A heavy part of the Giants' attack.
The Indians have left 11 men on the bases, an eight-and-a-half inning.
The Giants have left a total of nine on in eight innings.
Gissam is going to bat during the last half of the ninth.
And he has a chance to put his team off on the right pick.
He's a right-hander all the way.
Right-hand picking, right-hand batter.
The Indians gave up three hits in the third inning. That was when the Giants scored their two runs.
He has walked three and swept out four.
Here's the windup.
The Indians' first pick to Gissam is Baldwin outside and low.
The Indians' second pick to Gissam is Bates.
Next pick, Gissam swings, and he misses the curve ball.
Boy, he's a big teller. If he ever connects on one, it'll take a ride.
Ball one and strike one.
You watch some of these pitchers, you never know when they're going to count it.
There is a shut call as the curve hit the outside corner, breaking away.
Ball one and strike two.
Lemon into the windup.
Pitchers and Gissam swings and misses. He struck him out.
Strikeout number five for Bob Lemon.
Oddly enough, Lemon in previous years has been noted as a strikeout artist, but this year they said they named him a control pitcher.
He still had a lot of strikeouts, better than hundreds.
But not up with the leadies, like some of the boys at 160.
And that's about a Wiley Lachman left hand batter set game.
First pitch turn is a strike call. The fast ball got the inside corner knee high.
The outfielders just slipped well around to head right, deep in all fields.
Lemon's next pitch is ball one, up side and low.
Early win will undoubtedly be the starting pitcher in the Myers ball game,
as the strikeout pitcher with the Indians this year.
Lemon won the count. On Lachman, one out.
The pitch is fouled into the dirt, goes back to the plate, and the count moves to ball one and straight in.
They'll be opening right center, right side of the infield deep.
Lachman has the poor hitter.
He has one out of four, still to lead off in the third inning.
That's part of the Giants for their two-run rally.
One and two is the count now.
On deck is Alvin Dove, one out.
Lemon takes his time, drops into the wind deck.
The pitch is well under the down ball, is it?
Back to the pitch is now. Lemon takes it.
They throw the post and Lachman is out.
Going for that sinker, he topped it, tore the pitch, is now.
Lachman's rounding out, hit to the first one, three.
That brings up Alvin Dove.
He has a walk and two hits and four trips to the plate.
The Giants got seven hits off Lemon in the first four innings of the ballgame, and since then they've had just one.
A single by Mueller in the seventh inning.
Now the right-hand batter with two outs.
Take the ball on inside. Throw inside, two and two, here in the last half of the ninth inning.
He's going up, and then it pitches outside.
Ball two, ball to no strike.
Last of the ninth, Lemon now turns his back on the plate, wiping the postulation from his down.
Always tugging at that catch.
Now he's headed.
They're throwing up and pitch, coming up, and Dock holds back the ball three, a third ball, breaking down and away, and it is spinning.
On deck is John Mueller.
Ball three, no strike.
Two out in the last of the ninth.
Then his next pitch is bowed back to the screen.
Strike one.
They gave him the go sign.
Two and one.
Lemon still has to come in with another.
Rubbing up the new ball, turn out turn.
Al Rose in the third baseman is pulled over close to the line.
Lemon has his sign now.
The three-one pitch. Pulled foul down the third baseline, over toward the stands, and it is ball three, strike two.
Well, he's caught up with him now, and it boils down to just one pitch. One for the batter, one for the pitcher.
Ball three, strike two.
Dock digs back in there.
Right-hand batter.
One of the game's real tough competitors.
Hard to get out. Lemon works into the windup.
And the big pitch is rung on and popped up foul off to the right, and works his racing over near the stands.
He won't be able to get to it. He drops back in the crowd. Out of play.
Well, the fans have had their share of souvenirs in the stands.
None in home run territory.
Only one extra base hit right back in the first inning.
Re-into the count. Unpopped volley. Closed in newborn play.
Lemon takes a long look on the sign for this catch at Dunhegan.
It's all set. Here's the windup.
And the three-two pitch is run and pulled far out into left field.
Smith is going back. Right in front of the wall. He's under the mix.
The wind held it up.
Boy, we were talking about home run territory, and there was one that was traveling for it.
360 feet away.
Al Smith made the catch, and the side is retired.
For the Giants in the ninth, no runs, no hits, nothing across, and we go into extra innings.
At the end of ninth, it is Cleveland 2, New York Giants 2.
Al, this person is really turning out to be something, isn't it?
Well, yes, sir. Jimmy, and do you know this is the first extra inning ballgame in World Series play since back in 1952?
When there was an extra inning ballgame on the fifth day of October,
in which the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Yankees played an extra inning affair, 11 innings.
And if I remember rightly, Carl Erskine was the pitcher in that ballgame.
So, Jimmy, we've had our share of thrills here this afternoon, haven't we?
You're absolutely right, Al, and as I said before, if this is an indicator,
we're really in for something in the rest of this World Series.
Well, at the end of ninth innings, it's tied up. Al, 2 and 2, I haven't been able to break it.
Why don't you take it over? I'll help her.
All right, Jimmy, we'll see what will happen here.
Here are your totals at the end of nine innings of play for the Cleveland Indians, two runs, seven hits, no errors.
They have left 11 on here this afternoon in facing pitchers Magley, Little, and now Mark Grissom.
And for the New York Giants, in facing Bob Lemon, they have two runs on eight base hits.
They've committed three errors afield, and nine have been left on.
So, it's just about as even, Stephen, as it possibly can be with the exception of the error column.
And now let's step into the top half of the tenth inning to see what Victor Wirtz is going to do.
He's ripped a triple and two singles in four at bats and swings on the first pitch offered by Grissom,
hits a high foul ball off to the left of the plate, way up into the second tier out of play.
So, this promises, as Jimmy said, to be a wing ding series.
All the experts have picked it as such, and I think all the fans around the country and the world expect it to be exactly that.
The Cleveland Indians and the New York Giants, and Mark Grissom showing a lot of strength on the mound in relief,
is pitching now the left-handed batting Victor Wirtz.
As a count on him, I'll strike one.
Pitches, a knuckleball, what looks like a knuckle, and it's fouled off to the left of the plate for strike two.
Inning number ten here in the first game of the 1954 World Series.
This is the 51st playing of the fall classic.
And right now, the shadows are beginning to fall here over Coogan's Bluff and over the playing diamond at the ground.
On plate, first base, pitchers mound, and second base, and third base in the shadows.
Now Grissom is ready. Delivers on to Wirtz takes the fastball, finding their high for ball one.
One ball and two strikes.
Cleveland to the New York Giants, too.
I guess you wouldn't want a more even-steven ball game to start off the big fall activity.
Marvin Grissom, 34-year-old right-hander,
pitch some fine relief ball for the Giants this year. Delivers to Wirtz a fastball low for ball two.
Well, one thing you said about it, Bob Lemon has lasted so far with three pitches the Giants have put out there.
MacGray, Don Little, who pitched only one-third of the eighth inning,
and Mark Grissom, who pitched two-thirds of the eighth, and has been staming along ever since.
Victor Wirtz levels that bat off. Grissom fires away two-and-two. Fastball, it's high and outside.
So Wirtz has an even chance, as far as Grissom is concerned, with a three-ball, two-strike count.
First man up here for the Cleveland Indians in the first half of the tenth inning.
Bob Grissom takes a sign, dealt out there by Western.
Right foot forward on the rubber, waiting. Now he starts his motion.
The three-two pitch, and the play towards the swing on.
There's a high-fly ball hit down the left-field line.
Coving foul, up into the second-tier out of play.
There, that's another close-in.
Alva Dark electrified everybody with two down.
The bases empty in the last half of the ninth inning, as Jimmy told you.
At a high, tiring drive deep into left field, where Al Smith was able to get under to make the catch.
Before something like the one that was hit out there to Monty Urban,
just missed the overhanging facade here at the Polo Grounds by a scant few feet.
Been quite a ball game here this afternoon.
Now the next three-two pitch here on Victor Wirtz.
Grissom cuts it loose, an overhand fastball.
There's a line shot hit for left field, it's curving just outside foul.
Victor Wirtz all the way down to first base, and Cade is not willing.
He didn't even grab it, he just tucked it under his arm and started to run.
Quite a vast of margins, that becomes a foul ball, and Wirtz still has a count of three and two.
So, so far with Wirtz, Mr. Grissom has a living sort of a charmed life.
That buzzed the fans here at the Polo Grounds, make no mistake.
Now Wirtz gets that.
I think my friend Jimmy almost swallowed his chewing gum.
Oh me.
Now the three-two pitch for Amar Grissom.
An overhand fastball swing on by Wirtz, there's a long drive deep into left center field.
Willie Mays going to have to hurt if he's going to get this one, he's not going to get it.
It's in the alley, left center field for the bases.
Victor Wirtz on his way to second.
Here comes Willie Mays, throw into out and dark and short.
It's a stand up two-bagger for Victor Wirtz.
He has the only extra base blows in the ball game today, a triple and now a double.
Victor Wirtz, a double to deep left center field.
Well, Willie Mays made one spectacular catch on Victor Wirtz back in the eighth inning.
Jimmy Dundee told you, going deep in the right center field, taking the ball over his shoulder,
much in the manner, and then catching forward pass to his quarterback.
Mays turned around, his quick throw in, held things down pretty much.
Rudy Regalado is coming out of the bolt and he's going to run for Victor Wirtz.
Rudy Regalado, the kid from California.
Round of applause for Vic Wirtz and he deserves it.
Rudy Regalado is taking his position at second base.
Regalado, the young fellow who came out of California to make himself a spot on the ball club.
Rudy's from Los Angeles, California.
That is, he was born there and was raised there and still lives there.
Six feet, 185 pounds.
He's been used principally in relief for the Cleveland Indians this year.
That is, as a relief third baseman.
And I believe Jimmy, he has played a little short stuff too, hasn't he?
Yes, he has played short, third and second.
He likes third base, how better than any of the other positions.
Oh, I know, a pulled prime muscle took him out of the lineup when he was hitting pretty well.
Now batting right handed Sam Dettie for his first at bat of the afternoon.
And he bumps the first pitch down to third base lineup.
Look at this, Hank Thompson throws to Davey Williams covering at first base.
Sam Dettie sent up to sacrifice Regalado over to third.
Successfully does it.
Sam Dettie went up there batting at 266.
Of course, we'll hold that batting average.
Fire for put out on the sacrifice in case you're scoring along with us this afternoon.
That puts Regalado running for Victor Woods who doubled the left center field on third base in scoring position.
And hitting left handed, Dave Pope coming up there and they're going to work him intentionally.
Setting up the opportunity for a double play.
There's ball one on the outside.
Mark Grissom will throw wide to him for the next series.
And while this is being done, let's pause 10 seconds here for station identification.
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We've just completed ball four to Dave Pope.
And Bill Glenn, a left hand here, is being called upon to bat for Jim Hegan.
So Al Lopez is going all out here in his attempt to get this run in.
To lead in the ball game here in the top half of the 10th inning.
Because once you get past those nine, as we all know, it's a sudden death affair.
And of course, Grissom has his work cut out for him very definitely.
Bill Glenn, hitting our tanner, he's being an answer to the crowd now.
They'll probably stay in and play it first base.
Means we'll have a new catcher for the Cleveland Indians.
Glynn coming on here in the 10th inning to bat for Hegan.
Will stay in that slot probably and play at first base.
Of course, this is all conjecture on my part.
I'll have to wait to see what Manager Al Lopez has in mind.
But we're just sort of kind of looking forward to the last half of the 10th inning.
To see how the defensive alignment is going to come up for Cleveland.
Bill Glenn hitting left handed.
Moving in there right now.
First baseman hit 251 over the regular season.
Left handed batter.
Ready for first pitch to Glynn with runners at first and third.
Second is open and one out.
The pitch to Glynn is a curve, nicely over, right under the letters for called strike one.
Grissom getting a lot of motion, not too much speed.
The next batter up there should be Bob Lemon.
Down comes the pitch again.
Passball is run on the miss by Glynn for strike two.
And Thompson has been playing a shallow third base with Glynn up there.
Of course, he has a double purpose at third.
He's playing shallow.
Glynn might drop one down.
Top of his swing and drop it down the third baseline.
And two, Regalado is on third.
And Thompson wants to be there in a benefit play back there for him.
Regalado takes his lead off at third base.
He represents a tie breaking run for Cleveland.
In comes the pitch.
A passball high off the peak of the cap for ball one.
Left hander Wendy McCall along with Hort Wilhelm, the right hander down in the bullpen for the New York Jaws,
just in case Marv Grissom should have any more trouble here in the 10th inning.
Words open with a double.
Regalado is running for him.
Gendry sacrificed to run it down to third.
Hope was lost intentionally.
Good swing on by Glynn and miss.
Pass by three.
Grissom came in with a hooky jerk curve ball and Glynn was after it.
Miss it right off the piste.
That's the big important out for Marv Grissom to be picking up at this particular point in the game.
That gives him his second strikeout.
Four times Cleveland batsmen have gone down by the strikeout route.
And the round of applause is for Bob Lemon as he comes out.
Here's a chance for Bob definitely to strike a blow on his own behalf.
Let's say this afternoon Lemon has walked in the second inning,
lined out the center field to Willie Mays in the fifth,
wrapped up the shortstop Alvin Dark in the seventh,
and in the ninth inning hit a fly ball to left field to Marty Irvin.
Time has called for the moment as Wiley Loughlin comes over to say something to Marv Grissom
and remind him that there are two out here in the top of the tenth inning.
Bregolato is on at third base.
At first is Dave Pope.
Second is open two down.
Score is still two a piece and Bob Lemon up.
Grissom delivers to him.
And Lemon takes a fast ball.
It's low and outside for ball one.
Quite a tense moment in the ballgame here for Marv Grissom and the New York Giants.
As Jim told you, this is Marv Grissom's ballgame now.
The winner loses.
He's 110, lost seven on the regular season.
He's ready now.
He delivers.
A curve swing on.
Time drive right for Lennie Loughlin at first base for outnumbered three to retire to the side.
And the Pagans left over to the board.
Oh, here in the tenth inning for Cleveland, no runs, one base hit.
There were no giant errors and two Cleveland Indians were left off.
Running the total now to 13 to be left on and going to bat ten times.
So the score at the end of nine are what happens to play.
Remains, Cleveland two, the New York Giants two.
Well, we're in next yearnings now, fans.
And how long this game will go is the 64-point.
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Now the last half, early number ten.
Now the changes in the lineup for Cleveland.
At first place we have Bill Glynn and Mickey Grasso,
a fellow who had a terrific fight to make a comeback this year after having suffered a severe fracture of the leg.
Is coming on to do the catching here in this World Series game and he'll bat in the number five position.
So Mickey Grasso comes on. He's the same Mickey Grasso who did quite a bit of the catching for the Washington Nationals and was dealt over to the Cleveland Indians.
Mickey Grasso, not practically all of the year because of that fractured leg, is coming on here in the 10th inning to be the catcher.
And at first base as we had supposed Bill Glynn remains who'll bat number eight.
He'll take over at first base. So defensively now the Cleveland Indians have Bob Lemon on the mound.
Mickey Grasso behind the plate. At first base Bill Glynn. At second Bobby Mueller. At short, a Sam Duddy. And at third is Al Rosen.
The outfield remains the same of left fielder Al Smith, center fielder Larry Doeby, right fielder Dave Polk.
Lemon ready to pitch now to Don Mueller. He does and gets a lot of curveball in there for a strike.
Two runs on seven hits for Cleveland. No errors. They've stranded 13 so far in this extra inning ball game.
The Giants have two runs and eight hits off Lemon.
Mueller, Mueller takes a cup at this next pitch and hits a foul ball off the end of the bat.
Goes over into the stands on a play back at third base.
Strike two of the count on Don Mueller. The number three here in the Giants order.
He'll be followed by Willie Mays and then by Hank Thompson.
Two and two. What'll they do? I don't know. It's been quite a ball game here today.
The wind sort of died down a bit coming in from behind left field, but still we have enough of it here to determine what's going to happen with the fly ball.
Lemon's ready now. Thompson delivers an overhand curve. Swung on and missed by Mueller.
Four-second period. The ball is dropped by Dressel. He'll pick it up and tag Don Mueller for the first out.
Coming up now is Willie Mays. They'll remember his terrific catch in center field.
Lemon with six strikeouts now to face Willie Mays.
Willie is yet to get his first base hit in the World Series.
He popped up a short in the first, walked in the third, grounded the third in the fifth inning, and forced Mueller at second base in the seventh.
Willie Mays hitting right.
Mickey Dressel, fine competitor behind the plate now for the Cleveland Indians, working with Bob Lemon.
Dressel, whose leg still bothers him, nevertheless he's out there going.
We're in the twos. Curve ball is way outside and low to Willie Mays. Gets through and back to the backstop for ball one.
Look as though Bob Lemon threw that sinker. Got a little too much outside.
One out for the Giants here in the tenth inning. There are no base runners. The score is still tied at two apiece.
Bob Lemon, well-helmed, is alone throwing down the giant bullpen now. Looks as though it will be heat coming on in case he's needed.
Lemon, the ball is a curve, drives Willie Mays back from the plate, flips in under the short ribs.
Ball two. Two balls, no strikes on Willie Mays.
Bob Lemon, who has paced himself very well here this afternoon, beats that ball down in the palm of the glove.
As he leans forward, takes a sign from Dressel. Dressel, the relief catcher now for Cleveland.
Lemon delivers a curve, snaps off low and outside, and Dressel is having a little trouble handling the curve balls.
Fired in there by Bob Lemon. Willie Mays has a count of three nothing. Three balls, no strikes.
Lemon, back to visit the rising bag, slams it down. Comes right up, puts his foot on the rubber.
He's down at Willie Mays, standing there, waiting for the pitch to be made.
Now the three-oh delivery. Lemon comes in with the fast ball, taken by Mays and forwarded through at the knees for strike one call.
Al Barlich, the National League umpire, working the plate here this afternoon, can be heard all over this ballpark.
No doubt about it, when Barlich calls him, they're called.
Fast ball is outside and low for ball four, and Willie Mays with one out draws a free ticket for first base to represent the possible winning run for the New York Giants.
In a way, bases on balls. If you'll check me, Jim, that's a fourth given up by Jim Lemon.
Again, the fourth given up by Bob Lemon. And coming up to the plate now is Hank Thompson.
Hank's flanked a single to right field back in the third inning.
He's rolled out the first, then hit a single to right, came along in the fifth inning and struck out, and then was walked in the eighth.
He's won three this afternoon and has driven in one of the runs. The Giants have possessed.
Now we're ready for the first pitch.
Now it comes and goes to the runner. Willie Mays is going to try for it, and the kickbacker throws down a second. It's not in time for Denny.
And Willie Mays has stolen second base.
Sam Denny, Sam Denny kept that ball. He wasn't going to give Willie Mays a chance to get up and get off that bag at all.
He just kept tapping him on the leg. And um, on Park Carlin's side, they're laughing. Sam Denny was insistent.
Willie Mays has stolen second base here.
Oh, he puts the Giants in a pretty good spot. And now they're going to put Hank Thompson on. They're going to put him on.
Well, put Thompson on, walked intentionally. That is a first and second. That'll set up a double play situation.
That's the thing the Cleveland Indians, of course, are now hoping for.
That's a face on ball.
And here comes a guy that did a tremendous lot of damage to the National League pitchers this year.
Dusty Rhodes coming up to the plate. There's an answer for him and you'll hear them yell for him as soon as they realize who it's coming up.
Dusty Rhodes coming up to the plate. He's going to bat for Monte Irvin. He'll probably remain out there to play in the field.
Dusty Rhodes starting at 3-41. Hit 15 home runs this year for the Giants, drove in 50 runs and didn't play too often.
Only 82 of the ballgames, used principally as a pinch batter.
Dusty Rhodes coming off, he got tainted. So Lemmon has his work cut out for him with one out, two on here in the last of the 10th inning.
Rhodes swings on the first pitch, hits a half-mile ball into right field, coming over his coat, back the other line, leaps.
He can't get it. It's into the right field, stands for home runs for Dusty Rhodes.
Lemmon throws his club straight up in the air and that's it. That does it.
At the plate, Dusty Rhodes is being mobbed. He's being mobbed here in the last half of the 10th inning for a pinch hit home run in this World Series to drive in three of them.
So it's a final five to two, five runs for the New York Giants. Five runs and let's see, that'll be the ninth hit.
Five runs, nine hits. They had three errors here this afternoon and left a total of nine on the pitch.
So Dusty Rhodes gets off and continues to be known as the marvelous pinch batter.
Dusty Rhodes home run in the 10th inning with one out and two men on to drive in three runs for the Giants in the 10th.
That was the only base hit. There were no errors. There was one stolen base. Nobody was left on.
For the Cleveland Indians, two runs here this afternoon on a total of seven hits. Getting all off magley.
They had no errors and left on the bases this afternoon, 13 for the Cleveland Indians.
Well everybody, it's all over. A storybook finish for the New York Giants in the first game of the 1954 World Series.
And I know that a veteran reporter has many, many things to say about what has been seen here this afternoon.
And in just a moment, Bill Corum will review the highlights of today's game for you.
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Well that was quite a finish to quite a ball game, wasn't it?
The third time this year that Dusty Rhodes has walked up at that plate and hit a pinch hit home run.
And I guess that probably never has happened before. I don't have any record here on it.
But it's great pinch hitting anyhow.
And it was the 16th hit that he had made in 46 trips to the plate, I believe, as a pinch hitter.
Of course he played regularly part of the season too.
But before we go on with the victorious Giants,
it should be said that nobody ever pissed a sadder-hearted game than did Bob Lemon of San Bernardino, California, here for the Indians this afternoon.
He was a little shaky at the beginning, got better as the game went on.
And that was the only extra base hit that home run of Rhodes that made, of course, the score 5 to 2,
where all the Giants really needed then.
A sudden death would have been that one run that they had down at second base, but they got three for good measure.
And of course it was a tremendous victory because in any World Series, as all you listeners know,
the first game amounts to so much.
And also because Lemon has been, of course, if not the best, it's between either Bob or early Winn, I should say,
because both of them won 23 games, but by some people at least, considered their strongest pitcher.
And he was a great pitcher this afternoon.
And when you beat the top pitcher, of course, Magley didn't finish either.
But a great many people, and on his record, he doesn't rate as the Giants tops.
That will be Gianni Antonelli, who will pitch tomorrow.
And so the Giants got, as I said before, a tremendous break in this victory.
Not only the all-important first game, but now in an excellent pitching position.
And they would even have Magley, who didn't do too badly.
And of course was succeeded by Little.
And Little by Little, Mr. Vic Wirtz, who was one of the greatest hitters I ever saw this afternoon in any World Series,
actually, if you're told the truth, you'd have to say that he made five straight hits.
Of course he didn't.
Willie May has robbed him, and undoubtedly the greatest catch, with the greatest catch,
that's ever been made in World Series history.
He went clear back to the barrier.
The ball was clear over his head.
Everybody in the crowd of 52,000-plus years thought it was over his head.
And the only one that wouldn't acknowledge it was Willie.
He just kept going and kept going, and finally the ball dropped in his glove over his shoulder,
and he turned around and threw a strike to second base.
He can really rifle that ball as well as catch it.
Of course he didn't do anything at the bat this afternoon except draw a couple of bases on balls,
but he was, as he has been all season, a tremendous ball player.
And so are these two teams, Cleveland having 111 games this year.
It was the fourth pitch hit home run in World Series history, by the way.
Somebody just had me a note here on that.
That was Rhodes, and it was the fourth pitch hit home run in World Series history.
I was saying that Cleveland had won 111 games, which is a record, and is a mighty fine ball team.
They made no errors today.
They played good type baseball, and they got stop pitching from Lamont.