Sport: Scoreboard, Dec. 19, 1960

¶After jealously watching the National League's Dodgers strike gold in sports-happy Los Angeles, the American League last week decided to horn in on the rich market next season with a new team called the Angels. Biggest angel behind the Angels: Horse-Opera Star Gene Autry, 53, who has remained a baseball fan since his semipro playing days back in Oklahoma. Autry plans to broadcast Angel games on his prosperous chain of radio and TV stations, part of the empire (oil, real estate, cattle) he has rounded up as king cowboy.

¶Declaring that the University of...

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