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fie)thatheyeatdid£a (£rntfnr ariluttirWednesday, Oct. t, 1958Mrhvrrrd on RID Ort, f17wonigiyinWorld Series Tiltler,lgeiralandDifferentGomezBy TED SM1TSel’seenHeries(AP Sport» Writir)MILWAUKEE (AP) - A World Series game is different. Theregular season game,” hp said. “1!don’t suppose you are any more careful in the Series than you are I in a regular season game, but you !ielderneenstrategy may be the same, the don't have the whole season to baseball may look like that played make up a mistake it’s just sev-during the regular season, but the en games at the most. You have tension is on a different level al to be extra careful because it’sshort.fan-.300ghtfedre-Aontogether.The authority for this opinion is Vernon (Lefty) Gomez, one of baseball’s greatest pitchers. He is the only man to have won six World Series games without any losses.ft ^tr itheughordto“The Series gav^ me the greatest thrill I ever got out of base-HithiWiWiiL Mbm lt;IM ■London DefeatstoherPastrano Onen,an- jnc- i:er,Na-1 eatball,” he said. “I was just as nervous in my last game as I was in my first.”Pitching for tht New York Yankees Sept. 29, 1932, he beat the _ , ~ j t iy /■*Chicago Cubs 5-2 with Lon War *)th KOUfld I KO necke on the mound. Gomez wound up his major league career with the Braves, then in Boston,Now a salesman for a sporting goods company, he is trim butLONDONfAP)—Strange things are happening to American heavyweight contenders on this side of \ the Atlantic.looks more like a nrnfc^r than EuroPe s bl* no ^gerloots more like a professor than hasten ^ bomontalvhoan ex-big leaguer.☆ ☆ifan American leftsay11 v.t he sight of ; hook.“I feel the Series gets you in a 1 Willie Pastrano is the latest different frame of mind than a Yank to trip on his rating.'TU*. tLl-J 1 l e“Bad breaks aren’t anv more a^■ppv-factor in the Series than normally.!“Players may act as if it is just another ball game, but a Series game isn’t just that. It’s a most important one. Not only financially for everyone concerned, but in the matter of pride.”
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La Crosse Tribune
La Crosse, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Oct 01, 1958
Page 16
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