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April 9, 1962 Table Of Contents

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Point Of Fact

POINT OF FACT

A major league baseball quiz to jog the memory and increase the knowledge of casual fans and armchair experts

Play For Fun

SOME PLAY FOR FUN

Baseball 1962

CHANGE AND CHALLENGE

THEY MAKE THE GAME GO

PERFECT MAN FOR THE JOB

Frightened by the Black Sox scandal, the major leagues set up the baseball commissioner's office in 1921 to police the national game. The first commissioner, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, was a firm authoritarian, but Ford Frick, the present commissioner, in the words of one critic, 'walks softly and carries no stick at all'

By Robert H. Boyle

SCOUTING REPORTS

NEW YORK YANKEES

DETROIT TIGERS

BALTIMORE ORIOLES

CHICAGO WHITE SOX

CLEVELAND INDIANS

BOSTON RED SOX

MINNESOTA TWINS

LOS ANGELES ANGELS

KANSAS CITY ATHLETICS

WASHINGTON SENATORS

A NEW LOOK AT AN OLD SEASON

CINCINNATI REDS

LOS ANGELES DODGERS

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS

MILWAUKEE BRAVES

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS

PITTSBURGH PIRATES

CHICAGO CUBS

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES

HOUSTON COLT .45s

NEW YORK METS

Muscle

A CORNER ON AMERICAN MUSCLE

By Herman Weiskopf

For The Record

A roundup of the sports information of the week

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FACES IN THE CROWD

19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER

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