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AS YOGI BERR.A SLIGHT HAVE SAID, 1958 was deja vu all over again. The World Series again featured a seven-game battle between the Milwaukee Braves and New York Yankees, but this time it was the New Yorkers who overcame long odds to win the Series. As in 1957, Game 1 was a matchup between lefties Whitey Ford and Warren Spahn. Ford had won the first time, but now Spahn elened the score, winning a 10-inning complete game that was decided by Billy Bruton's run-scoring single in the bottom of the tenth. The Braves took Game 2 in more convincing fashion, knocking Yankee 21-game winner Bob Turley out of the game after retiring only one batter. Lew Burdette was on the winning end of that one and provided the biggest hit himself with a three-run homer that was the first World Series Ionghall by a pitcher in eighteen years.

The Yankees took Game 3 at Yankee Stadium. As Don Larsen and Ryne Duren combined on a six-hit shutout to win 4-0. Ben Yankee run was driven in by leadoff man Hank Bauer, who had a homer and two singles. The Braves won Game 4 the next das. although it was really the Yankees who beat themselves, since rookie Norm Siebern misplayed three balls in left field that led to three Milwaukee runs. That was more than Spahn needed, as he pitched a two-hit shutout, beating Ford again. Siebern's counterpart in left field, Wes Covington, expressed sympathy after the game. "That's a rough field to play, with the sun and that fog or mist that seems to come in later in the afternoon. Norm just had a couple of tough chances."

Now the Braves held a commanding three games to one lead, a lead that had been blown only once in history, by the 1925 Washington Senators. Milwaukee also had the 1957 Series hero, Burdette, due to face Turley, who had been able to record only one out in an atrocious Game 2 perform¬ance. Everyone assumed the Series was over-everyone, that is, except Turley, who allowed five singles, struck out ten Braves, and won an easy 7-0 shutout over the heavily favored Burdette.

Turley's performance breathed new life into the New York Yankees history, but they still had a daunt¬ing task before them. Games 6 and 7 would be on the road against Spahn and Burdette, who had 45 combined victories that year, including three in the World Series. The Braves knocked Whitey Ford out in the second inning of Game 6, but the score was tied 2-2 after nine innings nonetheless. Spahn pitched valiantly, but gave up a tie-breaking homer to Gil McDougald in the top of the tenth. The Braves tried to come back in the bottom of the inning, but with the tying and winning runs on base, the ever-present Turley came in to retire Frank Torre for the last out. "After the game I was interviewed in the locker room for the next morning's Today show," winning pitcher Duren said. "I was looking forward to seeing myself but they had to cut the segment because Yogi Berra had been walk¬ing around buck naked in the background scratching his rear end."