1962 WORLD SERIES

GAME 1 -- Chicago 6, Brooklyn 4
Roseboro Leads Colts to Victory
Catcher Drives in Four, as Pierce Tops Conley
BROOKLYN (Oct. 3) -- Johnny Roseboro drove in four runs including a bases-clearing double in the top of the fourth and Billy Pierce struck out nine en route to his 26th win of the year, as Chicago beat Brooklyn 6-4 at Frank Thomas Memorial Stadium to take a 1-0 lead in the 1962 United League World Series.  Superbas started Gene Conley struggled through the first three innings, allowing two hits and three walks, but the game entered the fourth inning scoreless.  Joe Adcock, Al Spangler, and Lenny Green all reached base on a single, walk, and error, setting up Roseboro's three-run double to right-center.  The Bas got one back on Granny Hamner's RBI triple in the bottom half, but Lenny Green's two-run single the next inning gave the Colts a 5-1 lead.  Brooklyn clawed back a pair in the sixth and a fourth run in on back-to-back doubles by Al Kaline and Felix Mantilla in the eighth, but Pierce was just too good, allowing three earned runs and striking out nine in eight innings of work.  It was the third World Series faceoff between Pierce and Conley, and the first since Pierce, then a St. Louis Maroon, four-hit Brooklyn in Game Four of the 1957 Series.

GAME 2 -- Brooklyn 11, Chicago 5
S-turd Drops One in the Seventh
Bas Rally, Bash Colts to Knot Series at 1-1
BROOKLYN (Oct. 4) -- Game Two presented the biggest pitching mismatch of the Series, at least on paper, as Chicago's Tom Sturdivant (7-9, 3.51) faced Brooklyn's Whitey Ford (15-11, 3.11).  Yet "Smoke" had a 5-4 lead and was just nine outs from victory when the wheels fell off and Brooklyn plated a half dozen to put the game away.  Ernie Banks' two-run homer gave the visitors a 4-0 lead in the third, but the lead was erased when Brooklyn scored four in the fourth on four singles and a walk.  Don Demeter then singled home Banks for a 5-4 Chicago lead in the fifth.  With two outs in the bottom of the seventh, Sturdivant appeared to be cruising, having retired six in a row and having not allowed in a hit in 10 batters.  But first Irv Noren, then Sandy Amoros, then Mickey Mantle singled.  Then Granny Hamner and Jim Gentile walked.  Then Hobie Landrith hit a two-run single.  Game over.  Bobby Tiefenauer walked Bobby Brown, and Dick Williams drove in two more with a pinch single, but the game had already been lost.
   Whitey Ford allowed 10 hits and five runs, but got the complete game win.  Ford lost his only appearance in last year's World Series, a 4-3 loss in Game Three.
   Jim Gentile walked twice and drove in three runs to earn Player of the Game, and Colts catcher Buck Rodgers bruised his hip in a collision at the plate with Sandy Amoros, and will be day-to-day for the next few days.

GAME 3 -- Brooklyn 2, Chicago 1
Burdette Shuts Down Colts
Dick Williams Gets Four Hits, Horsie Rally Falls Short
CHICAGO (Oct. 6) -- Lew Burdette, showing no ill effects from his strained elbow, dominated the Chicago Colts, pitching eight shutout innings before nearly throwing the game away.  Left fielder Dick Williams slapped four hits, including a home run on the game's first pitch, to lead the Brooklyn attack.  Felix Mantilla added an RBI single in the fourth, scoring Granny Hamner, who led off the inning with a double.  The score held at 2-0 until the ninth inning, as Burdette scattered six hits and two walks through eight innings before running out of steam in the ninth.  Dom Demeter and Al "Spanky" Spangler hit back-to-back singles, and Lenny Green halved the lead with a fielders choice groundout.  Pinch hitter Joe Adcock then reached on a walk, putting the winning run on base and chasing Burdette from the game.  Closer Dave Sisler then induced a Chuck Hinton groundout to end the Colts threat and the game. 

GAME 4 -- Brooklyn 2, Chicago 1
Bas Up 3-1 After Conley Four-Hitter
Dick Comes Up Big, Adcock Dong Is Not Enough, Colts Fail to Climax
CHICAGO (Oct. 7) -- Colts fans for the second time suffered a 2-1 loss after a ninth inning rally fell short.  Gene Conley held the home team to just four hits in 8.1 innings before yielding to Dick Sisler, who earned his second save in as many days.  Dick Gernert's two-run homer in the fourth--after Felix Mantilla's single--was all the scoring the Beasts from the East needed.  Chicago ace and Game 1 winner Billy Pierce pitched well, but not well enough to win, allowing nine hits and a walk and striking out 11.  Joe Adcock homered with one out in the ninth to spoil Conley's shutout bid, chasing him from the game.  Spangler then walked to put the tying run aboard, but for the second day in a row the Colts suffered rallius interruptus--as Lenny Green's would-be gaming-tying double instead found its way into the glove of Gernert, who tagged out Spangler for a game-ending unassisted double play.  Mantilla and Mickey Mantle each had three hits in the win.

GAME 5 -- Brooklyn 17, Chicago 7
Bas Win 5^th Title With 17-7 Blowout
Eight-Run First Cripples Colts, Gentile Slams in 9th
CHICAGO (Oct. 8) -- The Brooklyn Superbas tallied eight runs in the first inning and never looked back, putting an anticlimax finish to an anticlimatic series.  Eight hits--including four straight with two outs and a pair by leadoff man Irv Noren--and an error allowed the defending champs to build an apparently insurmountable lead, but the Colts chipped away at the margin, closing it to 9-7 after the three-run fifth inning.  Whitey Ford beaned leadoff hitter Chuck Hinton and Joe Adcock homered.  After two singles and a walk loaded the bases, Nellie Fox drove in a run with a sac fly, chasing Ford from the game.  Frank Smith then retired the next to batters to put down the threat, and he, Duke Maas and Jim Perry pitched a combined 4.2 shutout innings to prevent any further damage.  The score was 10-7 going to the ninth, when the Bas tacked on another explosive inning, using four hits and three walks to score seven runs.  "Diamond Jim" Gentile's grand slam home run off Bill Henry, with the score already 13-7, may linger as the Series' quintessential moments, igniting as it did a wild celebration, both at Comiskey Park and in the borough of Brooklyn, which celebrates its third consecutive United League championship, and fifth overall.
   Gentile won Series MVP honors, despite appearing in just three games.  The slugging first baseman hit 5-for-9, scored five runs, and drove in eight, and won Player of the Game in Games 2 and 5.