Sport: Basebrawl

Tight pennant races and a hot summer combined last week to set big-league tempers on edge. Pitchers reached oftener for the beanball, battered batters responded with expected anger.

When a wild first-inning pitch by Yankee Art Ditmar barely missed the plastic capped head of White Sox Outfielder Larry Doby, protocol demanded a few angry words. Doby obliged. Ditmar answered in kind. Doby countered with a left hook somewhat more accurate than Ditmar's fast ball, and Ditmar dropped. Men from both sides piled in. Even with the Chicago cops to help them, the umpires took 28 minutes to put down the fight. By...

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