10^th Season 

STANDINGS
EAST	W	L	GB	Last
Brooklyn	89	40	--	12-2
Cleveland	80	49	9	8-7
New York	60	69	29	5-10
Washington	49	81	40.5	7-8
Detroit	45	84	44	5-9
WEST	W	L	GB	Last
Louisville	78	51	--	8-5
Chicago	71	59	7.5	6-8
St. Louis	62	68	16.5	8-6
San Francisco	58	72	20.5	5-8
Los Angeles	55	74	23	7-8

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TRADES

Bas, Colonels Pulling Away
Mantle Leads Brooklyn Toward Fourth Division Title
BROOKLYN (Sept. 1) -- Brooklyn center fielder Mickey Mantle lead the Superbas to an eight-game winning streak in late August, expanding their division lead over second place Cleveland to nine games.  Mantle (.299-40-117) turned in his best month of the season in August, leading the league with 12 home runs and 29 RBI and posting a 1.139 OPS en route to his first Batter of the Month award.  Mantle leads the league in home runs, RBIs, and OPS, and is widely expected to coast to his second Most Valuable Player award.  Shortstop Granny Hamner also had a hot August, batting .380 with 22 RBIs and a season best 1.046 OPS.
   Whitey Ford (20-5, 3.22) was the club's hottest pitcher in August, winning five of six starts with a 1.74 ERA.  Ford struck out 13 Monuments on Aug. 30, tying a season high, en route to his 20th win.  It is the Chairman of the Board's first 20-win season since 1955.

Colonels Pull 7 1/2 Ahead of Colts
LOUISVILLE (Sept. 1) -- Ben DeGrass' Louisville Colonels moved a step closer to their second West Division title in late August, winning 8 of 13 games to extend their lead 2.5 games to 7.5 over the second place Chicago Colts.  June Player of the Month Hank Aaron's production tailed off in August (season low .826 OPS), but first baseman Bill "Moose" Skowron, one of the heroes of the 1958 championship season, picked up the slack, leading the team with 4 home runs and 18 RBIs while hitting a .926 OPS.  Skowron, 29, struggled early in the year (he had only 30 RBI in the first half) had been the subject of trade rumors earlier in the year, but the former first round draft pick (in 1955) is hitting .285-9-38 in his last 49 games.
   The Colonels pitching has been strong on the whole, with individual starters peaking at different times to ensure consistency at the team level.  In June, the staff ace was Johnny Antonelli (4-1, 2.64), in July it was Herm Wehmeier (2-3, 1.24), and in August it was Lou Brissie (3-1, 1.44 in 5 starts).  Brissie, 35, joined the Colonels in 1959, when he enjoyed the second best year of his career (19-17, 3.62 ERA, career high 173 strikeouts).  The Anderson, S.C. native picked up where he left off last year, going 14-11 through 30 starts, with career bests in  3.05 ERA (7th in the league) and WHIP (1.22).
   Louisville did suffer a setback in August, however.  Closer Cloyd Boyer was lost for the season on Aug. 22 with a torn back muscle on.  Cloyd, the eldest of the Boyer boys (see below) was 3-3 with a 2.86 ERA and 10 saves in 32 appearances.

It's A Boyer!! Boyer boys become UL’s first triple play of brothers by Lance Mueller (March 1, 1960) – When Clete Boyer got a phone call on an early spring morning from his big brother Ken, it wasn’t just another, “hello, how are ya?” conversation. Not only was Kenny calling his little bro to tell Clete he’d be coming to San Francisco, the boys also celebrated the fact that – along with eldest brother Cloyd – they had become the first sibling threesome to make it to the UL. But who’s who of these gents from the gateway state of Missouri? Here’s a quick look.
CLOYD  (b. Cloyd Victor Boyer Jr., Sept.1, 1927) – The eldest of the brothers, Cloyd made his UL debut in 1951 as a member of the New York Gothams, but then he spent three years in the minors before resurfacing in the bullpen of the Louisville Colonels. Cloyd’s five years in Louisville have been Jekyl and Hyde: three as a pretty poor reliever and two as a solid closer. With kid brothers Ken and Clete on the Spiders, it will be a milestone moment should Cloyd ever face both in a UL game.	KEN  (b. Kenton Lloyd Boyer, May 20, 1931) – Middle brother Kenny holds the honor of being the highest UL draft pick of the Boyer boys having been selected #2 overall by the Spiders in 1955. Ken has held down the hot corner for San Francisco since being called up at the start of the 1956 season. A speedy third sacker, Ken’s averaged 42 stolen bases in his first four years in the league, but the highlight of his career has to be his two run dong off Whitey Ford in Game 2 of the ’59 World Series.	CLETE  (b. Cletis Leroy Boyer, Feb. 9, 1937) -- The baby of the Boyer clan, Clete joins Ken in the city by the bay and finds himself in a familiar position, playing second fiddle at third to his big brother. Many would consider the slick fielding 3B/SS a swoop at the #19 pick, and that will definitely be the case if Clete matures and takes over at short, making it an all Boyer left side of the infield for the Spiders.

Low Down in Motown
Griffins Collapse Reverses Five-Year Trend
DETROIT (Sept. 1) -- In 1955, the Detroit Griffins hit their nadir.  Losing a then-UL record 99 games, the club hit rock bottom in the final days of the Brad McNeely era.  Since GM Sean Holloway took command of the troubled club, the Griffins have witnessed a rebirth and steady climb to respectability, winning 60, 73, 71, and 80 games in their next four seasons, climbing to second place in the East Division last year with their first 80-win season since 1952.  
   The Griffins had high hopes to build on their recent success this year, but the club got off on the wrong foot (8-16 April) en route to a 30-47 (.390) record at the break.  As bad as the first half was, Detroit is even worse in the second half, going 15-37 (.288).  No player symbolizes Detroit's collapse better than starting pitcher Art Ceccarelli.  "Chic" broke into the rotation last year, going 8-10, 4.48 in 28 starts.  Ceccarelli was the second most improved pitcher at the Midseason Break.  "Chic" posted a 3.01 in 18 first half starts (6-9) and an 8.37 ERA in his last 10 starts (2-8).  The 30-year-old lost nine straight games from June 13 to Aug. 6, and has allowed 5+ earned runs in 10 of his last 11 starts.
   Meanwhile, Johnny Podres (5-20, 4.62) has earned the title of "hard luck" pitcher of the year.  Podres has 16 quality starts, but only five wins, thanks to the league's worst run support (2.9 RS/G).  Podres has posted a 3.96 ERA in his last 11 starts -- but for a 2-8 record.