Baltimore hosts the Major League Baseball All-Star Game for the first time in 1958. 48,000 fans, most in white shirts, crowd Memorial Stadium for the game. Managers Fred Haney of the National League and Casey Stengel of the American League pose for cameras. With game tied 3-3 in the sixth inning, American League gets two men on base after National League mishandles infield roller by Ted Williams. Yankee Gil McDougald (seen in closeup) hits a bloop single to score Frank Malzone and put American League ahead 4-3, which would be the final score. Baltimore fans cheer Oriole pitcher Billy O'Dell, who pitched a scoreless final three innings to earn a save. Del Crandall of Milwaukee Braves pops up for the final out.
Newsreel clip on baseball's 1958 World Series, a rematch of the '57 Series -- the Milwaukee Braves against the New York Yankees. Views of County Stadium, the site for games one and two, and the capacity crowd of 46,000 inside. Yankee manager Casey Stengel and Braves manager Fred Haney shake hands before the game, as do game one starting pitchers Warren Spahn of the Braves and Whitey Ford of the Yanks. In top of the fourth inning, the Yankees' Bill Skowron hits a home run to left field. In the bottom of the fourth, hits by Del Crandall, Andy Pafko and Spahn put Braves on top 2-1. Hank Bauer (seen in closeup) hits two-run homer for Yankees. Braves tie the game and send into extra innings, where hits by Crandall and Billy Bruton win it 4-3 in the tenth. Braves celebrate on field. Announcer notes that the Braves also won game two and moved "toward another world's championship." But Yankees would come from behind to win the series in seven games.
The start and finish of the 1958 Belmont Stakes. A crowd at the stands. Horses at the start line. People stand on stairs to watch the race. The horses start running. Horses TimTam and Cavan run very close, at first, but Cavan establishes a clear lead in the final stretch and wins the race.
Review of the 1958 baseball season. Clip opens with Ebbets Field in Brooklyn and Polo Grounds in New York sitting empty after the Dodgers and Giants left for the West Coast. The teams are welcomed by parades and thousands of cheering fans in Los Angeles and San Francisco respectively. The season ends with the Milwaukee Braves and New York Yankees in the World Series for the second straight year. In game 7 at County Stadium in Milwaukee, Bill Skowron hits a home run to give the Yankees a 6-2 lead. Mickey Mantle catches the final out in center field as the Yankees clinch the game and series and celebrate as they run to the dugout.
Male students chatting inside a dorm at Indiana University (INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON 107 S. Indiana Avenue Bloomington, IN 47405-7000 Phone: 812-855-4848). A Japanese graduate student checks a camera film. The Japanese student shows his film to his friend. Japanese student with his American roommate at a vegetable farm. American roommate shows the Japanese student his hand tractor. An American Midwest rural family of a couple and their children having a lunch or dinner meal at a dining room table with a Japanese student. The father talks to their foreign guest. Japanese student eating fried chicken. The family and their guest sit in the living room and watch a television broadcast of a United Nations meeting. View of the console television set they are watching. The men and women discussing the television program.
Indiana University students in a classroom. Japanese student and his friends take a trip to Mark Twain's home near Mississippi river. Three students stop at a lake for a swim. Three students in a black convertible car. Billboard painted 'Hannibal' at the side of road, at Hannibal Missouri. The three students stop at the boyhood home of American author Mark Twain. Old lady at the home shows the three students a book 'The Extraordinary Twins' by Rundonhead Wilson. Students in a university class room have a discussion with professor. View of Student Building clock tower at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Students in front of the Student Building, and students beside a wood panel station wagon car.
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