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BIG GUY A BUST WITH METSCastoff Dick StuartriiPoison To Card StreakOji tcBy ROBERT SHAHitST. LOUIS (AP)-The St. Louis Cardinals might havedone better against Los An-’ Dick Stuart Sunday bythrowing questions instead ofbaseballs.Stuart may not be too good at questions, but he was in the swing of things at bat. He cracked three hits, including a solo home run, to drive in three runs and help the Dodgers salvage the final contest of the three-game series 64 against the red-hot Cardinals.The victory, coupled with Pittsburgh’s double loss to Philadelphia, moved the Dodgers into first place in the National League by one percentage point.Stuart said he was better Sunday hit tint' Cardinal pitching then he was earlier this season fielding questions on his Stump Stuart television show while he was with the New York Mets. On the show, fans asked the big first baseman questions about baseball. If he couldn’t answer them, the fans earned autographed bats.“It got so bad they had to t ig the snow,” Stuar grinned.“They asked some tough quesIt wouldn’t have done the Cardinals any good Sunday to study at the library for Stuart.ations. There were college kids tt who’d dug up their questions at T the library. Finally, we had to; R ask them for more moderate a questions.Is he the man the punchlessDodgers need in the clean-up spot?“He’s helped the club,” Los Angeles Manager Walter Alston said. “Ideally, you’d have a Willie Mays or a Mickey Mantle who can do everything. But there’s one tiling you can say, his hitting has been very timely. He's had the key hits.”Stuart drove in two runs against the Cardnials with a single and homer, doubled home the tying run with two out in the j ninth and scored on John FJose-boro’s single to help snap St. : Louis’ winning streak at six j straight. It was only the Cardinals’ second loss in their last 14games.Stuart went into the game hitting .333 for Los Angeles and .250 for the season. He spent the i earlier part of the year with the Mets, who dropped him about a month ago.
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Mount Vernon Register News
Mount Vernon, Illinois, US
Sun, Jul 31, 1966
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