Game 7 and Touch Football victim

The 1960 World Series is on paper. Charlotte Observer is my best friend. Youtube doesn't exist for me where I could look up each game now. I have to follow the box score, newspaper stories, or radio bulletins. The game is in color on NBC, shown at the Downtown library. The broadcasters are Bob Prince of the Pirates and Mel Allen of the Yankees for TV. Radio is Chuck Thompson from the Orioles and Jack Quinlan from the Cubs. Game 1 starters are Art Ditmar for the Yanks and Vern Law for the Bucs in Pittsburgh. The game starts real early like at 11:30 a.m. or maybe noon. I'll see the finish or sneek the radio.

I'm just interested in following Bill Mazeroski but he isn't the story. Lot of stories follow Dick Groat who played at Duke (great basketball player), Smokey Burgess (looks like smoked sausage but could hit) from Asheville, and Vinegar Bend Mizell from Winston-Salem. Secondary stories of Bill Virdon, Roberto Clemente, Vern Law, Elroy Face (relief), and Don Hoak. Will Dick Stuart's fielding issues cost the Pirates despite his bat? Mostly, it is about the Yankees, the Mick, Whitey Ford, and new player, Roger Maris. You have stories about Tony Kubek (his intelligence), Moose Skowron (his last year?), and Yogi Berra playing the outfield with Blanchard and Howard catching. The paper star is Bobby Richardson because he is from South Carolina and plays for the Yanks. He is player narrator for the 1960 WS coverage with game by game analysis and briefs.

Media expects a cake-walk for the Yankees even though the Pirates won Game 1. Meanwhile, a senior from Myers Park is sent to Charlotte Memorial after a touch football accident for care. Doesn't really say what happened except that a few moments after a fall, he either started to develop symptoms of swelling or something. He should be okay. Yankees won Game 2 with a 16-3 score thanks to two homers by the Mick and Bobby Richardson drives in 6 RBI's with a grand slam to beat the Pirates in Game 3. Back home, the condition of Russell Craig Hunt is getting worse. The man who got hurt in a touch football game is developing symptoms that doctors can't figure out. He is unresponsive to treatment. They will do their best.

Pirates win Game 4 thanks to the fielding of Don Hoak as well as Dick Stuart. Bases-Loaded and Yogi up with one out in the 1st. Hits a liner to third, Hoak fields it, steps on third and throws to first-baseman, Stuart, to get Berra. First base-coach, Ralph Houk, jumps and yells at the ump for making that call. No replay action from TV like in the future of whether Yogi is out or not. My eye says, Yogi is safe. In the 4th, Vern Law drives in a run with a double after giving up a homer to Moose Skowron earlier that inning. It should have been two runs but Smokey Burgess was running from first despite being two outs. No matter, Bill Virdon drove in Smokey and Vern with a single in front of Mickey Mantle for a 3-1 lead. Later in the game, Virdon makes a game saving catch in the 8th off Bob Cerv with two runners on base. Pirates 3, Yankees 2.

Back home, the parents of Russell Craig Hunt put a rest to their son and bury him at his birthplace towards Hudson, I think. Pirates win Game 5, 5-2. "Buth" the Yankees win Game 6 in Pittsburgh with Whitey Ford shutting out Bob Friend for the second time, 12-0. Friend lost control of his pitches and hit Elston Howard in the hand, causing him to leave the game. Bobby Richardson went crazy in that one. Everyone says, he should be the MVP but I like the Mick. He hits, bunts, fields, and runs. Amongst other things, he makes his teammates better with his situational play. Clemente is good and consistent but his teammates don't seem to like him. I like Vern Law because of his leadership presence on the mound. The relief pitchers of Shantz and Face is my key.

Bing Crosby, one of the owners of the Pirates, will listen to Game 7 in Paris, France from shortwave radio. He is too superstitious to see them in person. He will record the game in kinescope in case his Pirates win. The game will be live in color at the library but for Bing, he will have to see it in recorded black & white. The Pirates have made the decision of not starting Dick Stuart for the final game only use him as pinch-hitter. Elston Howard will not play due to a hand injury from Game 6. The findings of Mr. Craig's death is due to an existing tumor in his brain, exacerbated from the touch football game.