SPORTS

Wilima Rudolph, a black American woman, received three  Olympic gold medals in fast running. As a child, she was very ill with  pneumonia and  scarlet fever. She barely lived, and doctors said she probably would never be able to walk  again. But she never gave up hope, and was not only able to walk again, but able to outrun  everyone else in the Olympics to be rewarded with three gold medals. 

   

BASEBALL!

Roger Maris hit homer number 61, setting a record that wasn't  broken until the September of 1998 by Mark McGwire.

In 1962, Jackie Robinson, the first black American to play in  major league baseball, was placed in the Baseball Hall of Fame for his talent. 

1964 World Series

OCTOBER 15, 1964 - Bob Gibson, who, only three days before, turned in a two-run, 13K, 10-inning performance in game five, follows it up with another stellar complete game. He survived three home runs by Mickey Mantle, Clete Boyer and Phil Linz and outlasted Yankee ace Mel Stottlemyre to lead the Cards to their first World Championship since 1946.

1962 World Series

OCTOBER 16, 1962 -Ralph Terry, who led the Yankees' staff that season with a 23-12 mark, had already gone 1-1 in the series, losing Game 2 and winning Game 5. Terry, who just two years earlier had served up Bill Mazeroski's title-clinching homer, came back to start Game 7. Terry was one inning away from exorcising his World Series demons, having held San Francisco to just two hits over the first eight innings. The Yankees had their own troubles with Giants starter Jack Sanford, who had won Game 1 and lost to Terry in Game 5. Sanford and Billy O'Dell held the Yankees to a single run over nine innings, leaving the Giants just three outs to work with to scratch out a run.

1961 World Series

OCTOBER 1, 1961 -Both Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris spent the summer of 1961 chasing the ghost of Babe Ruth through the record books and American League ballparks. The mighty Yankees' three and four hitters known as the "M&M Boys" kept pace through the dog days, but as an injury sidelined Mantle , Maris continued the pressure-filled chase through autumn. On the last day of the season, facing Boston's Tracy Stallard & and an asterisk Rog finally launched the bomb that put him in the record books. An aside: listen for a rookie named Carl Yastrzemski starting in left field for the Red Sox.

1960 World Series

OCTOBER 5-13, 1960 -After missing the World Series only once in the last decade (1959), the Yankees opened the 1960's in their expected position as the American League champions. But instead of renewing their rivalries with the Dodgers or the Milwaukee Braves, their opponents in this Series would be the scrappy Pittsburgh Pirates. The Yankees were the widely predicted favorites to win. But in a World Series that saw the advantage see-saw between the teams over seven games, the Pirates used the Yankees' own great offensive weapon against them, hitting home run after home run. A clear winner was not determined until the final at-bat of the Series and one of the most famous homers of all time, Bill Mazeroski's Series winner in the bottom of the ninth.

 

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