Sport: Scoreboard: Sep. 8, 1961

¶ Still ageless and agile at 60, give or take ten years. Leroy ("Satchel") Paige returned to organized baseball after a three-year absence spent barnstorming in the Negro leagues. In his debut as a pitcher for the Portland Beavers of the Pacific Coast League. Satch showed that there was still plenty of spring left in his ancient arm; in four innings, he allowed the Seattle Rainiers three scratch hits, gave up two unearned runs. ¶Before 30,000 Bulgarian fans packed into Sofia's Vasil Levski stadium, Russia's Valery Brumel. 19, bettered his own world record for the high jump, cleared 7 ft. 4½in....

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