¶ As a scout for the Kansas City Athletics, Lew Krausse Sr., who pitched for the A's in Philadelphia in the 1930s, kept close tab on an 18-year-old Chester, Pa., sensation who pitched 18 high school no-hitters. Last week Krausse and the A's landed the boy. His name: Lew Krausse Jr. His price: a $125,000 bonus.
¶ Trailing Cincinnati 10-2 in the seventh inning, the Milwaukee Braves belted out a record home-run barrage. Eddie Mathews, Hank Aaron, Joe Adcock and Frank Thomas hit successive homers to top the major-league mark of three in a row shared by many clubs. What the...
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