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iiT11By MURRAY t HASS , Associated Press SiHrt* Writer ! *They stopped the music in theNational League s game of musical first basemen, and look who the winner is Dick Stuart.Dick Stuart?Hill White, whom Philadelphia acquired from St. Louis, collected seven hits and drove in five runs Sunday, and Orlando Cepe-da, whom St. Louis acquired from San Francisco to fill the gap created by White s departure, took over the league batting lead. cBut Stuart, whom the Phillies got rid of after acquiring White, took the Los Angeles Dodgers to the head of the league by raj ping three hits, driving in three runs and scoring the win- i ning run in the Dodgers* 6-4 victory over St. Louis.That victory, plus Pittsburgh’s loss, 8-1 and 6-5 in 10 innings to Philadelphia, vaulted the Dodgers over the Pirates and into first place, by one percentage point. San Franciscobeat Atlanta 4-3 and made it a three-way jam at the top, trailing the Dodgers by only three points.The Dodgers. Stuart s fourth team in three seasons, picked up the colorful first baseman eraly in July after he had gone unclaimed for three weeKs following his release by the New York Mets.As a Met he hit .218. In 13games as a Dodger lie’s collected 14 hits in 38 at-bats for a lusty .368 average, driven in nine runs and hit three of his seven homers.Stuart’s performance overshadowed that of Cepeda, whom the Cardinals went after in May when they realized Wfhite s winter departure had left too much of a hole at first.Cepeda rapped three hits, scoring two runs and driving in one, and vaulted into first place in the batting race with a .339 mark.
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Mount Vernon Register News
Mount Vernon, Illinois, US
Sun, Jul 31, 1966
Page 9
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