Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. “Willie, he don’t want to hurt you. We follow Juan Marichal from Laguna Verde, in the Dominican, to his minor league sojourns in Florida and Spokane, to San Francisco, to Cooperstown. But I'm telling you, the order could easily be Marichal, Gibson, Koufax. The altercation that followed incited a riot that lasted six days. Rebels loyal to Juan Bosch–who had won the election in 1963 but been ousted shortly afterward in a coup–pushed aside the military-imposed junta and set up their own government. But, that was the problem, so little was revealed. Atlanta leads the series three games to one. The Dodgers had reinforced their already strong pitching corps–Johnny Roseboro said in spring training he thought this was the best Dodger team he had ever played on–and the Giants relied on the strong bats of McCovey, Mays and Jim Ray Hart. Slate is published by The Slate Group, a Graham Holdings Company. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. “There’s no way you can concentrate while that is happening in your country,” he said. By joining Slate Plus you support our work and get exclusive content. Ebbets Field, where Giant outfielders had to dodge rocks and other missiles thrown at them, became an equally dangerous place for Giant fans. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Over the course of his fourteen-year career, the six-foot five-inch right-hander set a record for hitting the most batters (154) that still stands. It happened within the context of the most spirited rivalry in sports and during a period of intense turmoil that affected both men personally. Marichal, who is never late, appeared promptly at 4 p.m., shook our hands, and motioned for us to arrange ourselves on three generously proportioned leather sofas. But the Dodger battery came undone in the fifth. The 2015 Hall of Fame inductee remembers the respect given to Marichal when he was just a kid, and what it means to be mentioned in the same sentence today. He and the Alou brothers received word at the end of the month that their families were safe–for the moment. In the last years of his life, when heart trouble, two strokes and a case of prostate cancer put him in the hospital for long spells, “you never heard a word of complaint from him,” his wife said. On this day, the pitchers found themselves in a game of one-upmanship: Neither gave up a run through nine innings. No, the Dodgers’ offense disappearing after its Game 3 eruption, shut down by a rookie who hadn’t pitched since Sept. 27, didn’t help Kershaw. Despite the landmark legislation, racial tension remained taut throughout the nation.[27]. Although scouting by the majors was still in its infancy in Latin America, Marichal soon caught the attention of representatives from the San Francisco Giants, who brought him to the United States in 1958.

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