American League (Baseball)

Never was there such a year for heroics in minor-league baseball, never so many headline heroes

In six years as manager of the Yankees, Casey Stengel has won five World Championships. This year, ironically, the Yankees have played at a better clip than ever. Yankee victories (with 11 games to play) as compared...

Casey Stengel's proud Yankees, playing at a clip that has won them five World Championships, went into Cleveland this week and met a better team—the 1954 Cleveland Indians, who did not "choke up"