At LA’s Wrigley Field, Baltimore takes advantage of the friendly confines to hit five home runs and beat the Angels 11 – 5. Jack Fisher has a complete game win, despite allowing 12 walks. The game is the last for Paul Richards as the manager for Baltimore.

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At LA’s Wrigley Field, Baltimore takes advantage of the friendly confines to hit five home runs and beat the Angels 11 – 5. Jack Fisher has a complete game win, despite allowing 12 walks. The game is the last for Paul Richards as the manager for Baltimore.

At Washington, Rocky Colavito and Al Kaline belt 1st-inning homers as Detroit wins, 7 – 3 to cut New York’s lead to 1 1/2 games. Rocky now has 39 homers and 120 RBIs. Jake Wood hits a 6th inning grand slam to complete the scoring for Detroit.

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At Washington, Rocky Colavito and Al Kaline belt 1st-inning homers as Detroit wins, 7 – 3 to cut New York’s lead to 1 1/2 games. Rocky now has 39 homers and 120 RBIs. Jake Wood hits a 6th inning grand slam to complete the scoring for Detroit.

In New York, the Yankees snap a 3 – 3 tie when Mickey Mantle hits a 2-run homer in the 5th and Yogi Berra follows with a solo shot. The Yanks top the Tigers, 8 – 5.

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In New York, the Yankees snap a 3 – 3 tie when Mickey Mantle hits a 2-run homer in the 5th and Yogi Berra follows with a solo shot. The Yanks top the Tigers, 8 – 5.

In Los Angeles, the Reds drop nine runs – 6 unearned – on the Dodgers in the 1st inning, then get shut out the rest of the way. The Reds win, 9 – 3, behind Bob Purkey.

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In Los Angeles, the Reds drop nine runs – 6 unearned – on the Dodgers in the 1st inning, then get shut out the rest of the way. The Reds win, 9 – 3, behind Bob Purkey.

In a battle of New York’s chief rivals for the American League pennant, Baltimore’s Milt Pappas has Chicago down 3 – 0 in the 8th. An apparent 3-run home run by Ted Kluszewski is nullified because umpire Ed Hurley calls time just before Pappas delivers. Hurley spotted Floyd Robinson and Earl Torgeson warming up along the RF sideline. The Sox argue for 15 minutes, with Nellie Fox and Al Lopez being tossed, before Klu hits again and lines out. The O’s prevail 3 – 1 and take over 2nd place, two games behind the Yankees, and the Sox are 3 1/2 back.

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In a battle of New York’s chief rivals for the American League pennant, Baltimore’s Milt Pappas has Chicago down 3 – 0 in the 8th. An apparent 3-run home run by Ted Kluszewski is nullified because umpire Ed Hurley calls time just before Pappas delivers. Hurley spotted Floyd Robinson and Earl Torgeson warming up along the RF sideline. The Sox argue for 15 minutes, with Nellie Fox and Al Lopez being tossed, before Klu hits again and lines out. The O’s prevail 3 – 1 and take over 2nd place, two games behind the Yankees, and the Sox are 3 1/2 back.

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8/28/1960: Ted Kluszewski of the White Sox pinch hit in the eighth inning of a game at Baltimore. The Orioles’ Milt Pappas, leading 3-0, delivered a pitch as third base umpire Ed Hurley called time. Klu hammered a three-run homer to right, but it was called back by Hurley. Baltimore won 3-1.

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8/28/1960: Ted Kluszewski of the White Sox pinch hit in the eighth inning of a game at Baltimore. The Orioles’ Milt Pappas, leading 3-0, delivered a pitch as third base umpire Ed Hurley called time. Klu hammered a three-run homer to right, but it was called back by Hurley. Baltimore won 3-1.

Before 70,938 fans in Cleveland, the first-place White Sox top the 2nd-place Indians, 7 – 3, behind the pitching of Bob Shaw. The Tribe now trail by 2 1/2 games.

Before 70,938 fans in Cleveland, the first-place White Sox top the 2nd-place Indians, 7 – 3, behind the pitching of Bob Shaw. The Tribe now trail by 2 1/2 games.

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Before 70,938 fans in Cleveland, the first-place White Sox top the 2nd-place Indians, 7 – 3, behind the pitching of Bob Shaw. The Tribe now trail by 2 1/2 games.

Roberto Clemente

Clemente homerun contained by Forbes Flag Pole

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Another Forbes Field Four-Bagger – Clemente contained yet again: Roberto Clemente’s 4th-inning, 450-foot drive is good for four bases but, as UPI informs us, he’ll have to run this one out: “Clemente’s clout hit the dead centerfield wall on one bounce.” Its destination is more precisely pegged as “the flagpole in center field” by Post-Gazette writer Jack Hernon. In other words, to the deepest part of Forbes Field, i.e. the 457-foot mark at least 40 feet to the left of the Barney Dreyfuss Memorial in dead center. Clemente’s two-out, bases-empty blast ignites a 5-run rally which turns the game into a very relaxed outing for starting pitcher Vern Law, as the Piratesadminister a 9 – 0 whitewashing to Philadelphia.

It certainly comes as no shock, when reading the box score of tonight’s 5 – 4 defeat of the league-leading Braves, to find an assist credited to Pittsburgh’s rifle-armed right fielder, Roberto Clemente, the 13th of 17 outfield assists to be recorded by Clemente this season. That being said, without witnessing it one would be hard pressed to envision the exact nature of this exciting but atypical and inadvertent ‘assist.’ Both a highlight and turning point in Pittsburgh’s come-from-behind win, the freak play prevents the Braves from breaking this game open in the sixth. “Production might have continued indefinitely,” notes the Milwaukee Journal’s Cleon Walfoort, “but for a fantastic two-man catch of a long drive by Spahn. The Journal’s Bob Wolf elaborates: “Clemente and Bill Virdon robbed Spahn of an extra-base hit and the Braves of one or more runs. Clemente got his glove on the ball against the fence and Virdon grabbed it as it squirted out.” As Walfoort notes: “It was just after this remarkable catch that the Pirates came to life.”

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It certainly comes as no shock, when reading the box score of tonight’s 5 – 4 defeat of the league-leading Braves, to find an assist credited to Pittsburgh’s rifle-armed right fielder, Roberto Clemente, the 13th of 17 outfield assists to be recorded by Clemente this season. That being said, without witnessing it one would be hard pressed to envision the exact nature of this exciting but atypical and inadvertent ‘assist.’ Both a highlight and turning point in Pittsburgh’s come-from-behind win, the freak play prevents the Braves from breaking this game open in the sixth. “Production might have continued indefinitely,” notes the Milwaukee Journal’s Cleon Walfoort, “but for a fantastic two-man catch of a long drive by Spahn. The Journal’s Bob Wolf elaborates: “Clemente and Bill Virdon robbed Spahn of an extra-base hit and the Braves of one or more runs. Clemente got his glove on the ball against the fence and Virdon grabbed it as it squirted out.” As Walfoort notes: “It was just after this remarkable catch that the Pirates came to life.”