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Plenty still up in the air as we enter the stretch run in the PBL's 1963 season. The Beacons' 6-game advantage in the North remains the widest, and nothing is set in stone heading into September.

We're certainly seeing the effect of the pitcher-dominant 1967 LTMs on the stats this year.

Here's a few other things we're seeing:

• Sandy Koufax into the rotation at Seattle.
• Chris Sale into the rotation at Atlanta.
• Vida Blue into the rotation at Connecticut, CC Sabathia now closer.
• Jamie Moyer into the rotation at Florida.
• Grant “Home Run” Johnson hits his 1st PBL home run.
• Dave Stieb into the rotation at New Orleans.
• Jorge Posada has more HR this season than the previous two combined.
• Juan Marichal into the rotation at Carolina.
• Joe Cronin now with 11 HR v 8 in 1961-2 combined.
• Curt Schilling back into the rotation at Washington.
• Luis Tiant the closer again at Atlanta.
• Gerrit Cole into the rotation at New Jersey.

Monthly Award Winners

Northwest League

• Batter – Ted Williams (Connecticut): 419 / 6 HR / 14 RBI
• Pitcher – Don Sutton (Las Vegas): 5-1 / 2.57 / 38 K / 49 IP

Southeast League

• Batter – Lou Gehrig (Kansas City): 280 / 8 HR / 23 RBI
• Pitcher – Nap Rucker (Carolina): 5-0 / 1.19 / 35 K / 53 IP

Weekly Award Winners

• 5th: Ted Williams (Connecticut) / Lou Gehrig (Kansas City)
• 12th: Paul Waner (Portland) / Nap Lajoie (Indianapolis)
• 19th: Honus Wagner (New Jersey) / Pud Galvin (Florida)
• 26th: Bill Terry (Connecticut) / Mickey Cochrane (Indianapolis)

Top 20s






Standings & Leaders