"All I knew," said beaming Tommy Henrich, "was I had him in a hole. I was just looking at the ball, and it looked pretty good." Henrich swung and the ball sailed into the Yankee Stadium's right-field stands for a home run. In the last half of the ninth inning, ailing (back injury) First-Baseman Henrich had robbed Don Newcombe, the Dodgers' towering Negro righthander, of a four-hit shutout in his first World Series pitching assignment, and won the Series' opening game for the Yankees, 1 to 0.
With Yankee Veteran Allie Reynolds pitching brilliant,...
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