United League of American Base B

2nd ALL-STAR GAME · EAST 8, WEST 3 · BOX · LOG
East Wins Homer-Happy Classic
Torre MVP With HR and 3 RBI
LOS ANGELES (June 22) -- In front of a packed house in freshly renovated Arroyo Seco Stadium, the East Division All-Stars made it 2-for-2 in the Midsummer Classic, using four home runs to bury the hosting West Division 8-3. The Orientals punished Dallas pitchers Bob Purkey and Gordon Jones for six of their eight runs, recapturing the leage after Joe Torre's 3-run blast tied the game 3-3 in the third. The game capped an eventful week for Torre, who was traded to Manhattan on June 17 but played for the West because he was with St. Louis when the rosters were announced.
The East took the lead in the first inning. Cleveland's Eddie Mathews led off with a single, but was immediately picked off, costing a run as Felix Mantilla homered in the next at bat. Jimmie Hall's groundout RBI scored Mickey Mantle, and Mathews drove in Willie Held on a fielders choice to make it 3-0 in the second. Brooklyn's Lew Burdette held the West to just two singles in the first two innings, but lost his control in the third. L.A.'s Ted Lepcio singled and Roger Maris walked, setting up Torre's homer, a 395-foot blast to left.
The deadlock was short-lived, as Brooklyn's Del Crandall and Detroit's Frank Howard welcomed San Francisco's Steve Ridzik to the game with solo homers in the fourth. The 5-3 scoreline held until the seventh, when Detroit's Willie Held added insurance with a 3-run homer off Jones, who had walked Granny Hamner and Jim Gentile.
After Burdette left, the East's bullpen was impeccable, with six relievers combining for six shutout innings. The West's staff, by contrast, failed to stop the hemorrhaging, despite solid outings by Chet Nichols, Tony Phillips, Jim Bunning, and Ray Narleski. Ridzik, the 35-year-old Spiders reliever, was charged with the loss.

Los Angeles
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Stadium Facelift A Hit
Leave to Tinseltown to do some cosmetic surgery on their ballpark. The Outlaws shelled out $30 million to upgrade six-year old Arroyo Seco Stadium. The 56,000-seat, triple-deck facility opened in Pasadena in 1958 after the expansion Outlaws played their first three seasons in the Memorial Coliseum, which hosted the 1932 Olympics but proved inadequate for baseball.
The recent improvements include 50 new luxury boxes and a shiny new station linking the ballpark to L.A. rapidly expanding subway network, already the nation's second largest. "Hundreds of thousands of Angelinos use mass transit everyday, so it makes perfect sense to for us to partner with the MTA to get more fans to the ballpark," proud owner Peter Vays told reporters in his owner's suite, where the smell of fresh paint still lingered in the air. "It's far out, Daddy-O. It's a real gas," said

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