"In many respects, this rather prosaic ball game followed the normal patterns of the two ball clubs. The Pirates, pesky as always in piecing together runs, did everything the hard way in collecting four of their six runs. Two crossed unexpectedly when Bill Mazeroski lined a two-run homer over the scoreboard, a minor infringement on the Yankee patent. But the Bombers demonstrated that they still were the copyright owners by getting three of their four tallies by the into-the-grandstand method. The one department in which there was no letdown was in master-minding. Casey Stengel was thinking early and often. He never gave Cletis Boyer a chance to bat but used a pinch-hitter, Dale Long, for him as early as the second inning. That didn't work, though. Nothing worked."
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Arthur Daley, in “Sports of the Times: Triumph for Law and Order” by Daley, in The New York Times (Thursday, October 6, 1960), p. 53
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