WORLD SERIES PICTURES FROM THE AP
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Fleet-footed Giant outfielder Monte Irvin makes suc
cessful theft of home plate in the first inning of the opening
World Series game at Yankee stadium. Catcher Yogi Berra
takes high throw from Pitcher Allie Reynolds (not shown)
and reaches for the sliding runner. Batter Bobby Thomson
falls away from plate. Umpire is Bill Summers.
SPECTACULAR CATCH
Giants' Monte Irvin leaps high and makes a spectacular
grab of a home run try by Yankees’ Hank Hauer in the left
field corner in the opening inning of the first World Series
game. The catch was made in front of the 402-foot sign.
Alvin Dark, Giants’ shortstop, skids safely home as Yankees’ catcher, Yogi Berra,
! drops the ball in dust for an error in Giants’ big fifth inning in third series game at the Polo
j Grounds in New York. Umpire Joe Paparella waves his chest protector as he'watches the
I action. Dark scores on a bounder to third.
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IRVIN STEALS HOME
Monte Irvine (20), Giants’ leftfielder, steals home in a cloud of dust in the first inning
of the first World Series game. Yankees’ catcher, Yogi Berra, makes the tag too late. Bob
by Thomson, who was at bat, falls away from the action. It was the first steal of home in
World Series in 30 years.
GIANTS’ CLINCHER
Arrow traces are of Giants first baseman Lockman’s fifth inning three-run homer
against the Yankees in the third game of the World Series at the Polo Grounds in New York
Lockman follows Hank Thompson and Monte Irvin around the bases. His homer into the right
field stands was the climax blow of a five-run uprising for the Giants in the fifth and drove
Yankee Vic Raschi from the mound. Giants went on to win, G-2, to take a 2-1 lead in the
series.