American League (Baseball)

At Midseason, Mickey Mantle (above left) and Hank Aaron, who have dominated X-Ray's hitting statistics all year, seem likely triple-crown winners. Williams, Musial, Sievers and Skowron have also appeared weekly as...

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The World Champion New York Yankees were not the best team in the American League last week. The sixth-place Baltimore Orioles were. Twenty-game winners Billy Pierce, Bob Lemon, Frank Lary and Billy Hoeft were not...

RECORD BREAKERSTorpid, Max Hochberg's smooth-gaited paper, swirled around Yonkers (N.Y.) Raceway's double oval in front of Johnny Simpson's expert handling, outlegged Adios Express by one length to win $66,952...

The time had come at last. As millions feared, the annual and inevitable march of the New York Yankees to the American League pennant was in full stride.