Del Crandall

stered by a lineup that featured four All-Stars that year, including Johnny Logan at short, catcher Del Crandall, and future Hall-of-Famers Eddie Mathews at third and, of course, Hank Aaron in right.

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times Spahn would coax them into doing so.  No one knew that when the Braves stranded catcher Del Crandall on second base in the top of the second, that would be just the first of six such exercises of futility against Marichal and his nearly vertical leg kick.  And no one knew that when Willie Mays threw Norm Larker out at the plate in the top of the fourth, that was the closest anyone would come to reaching that holy grail of destinations until the Say Hey Kid, himself, decided it should be so.

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