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> After four years of haggling over suitable candidates, the Baseball Writers Association finally got around to electing two more players to baseball's Hall of Fame. The choices: fireballing Cleveland Pitcher Bob Feller, 43, and fiery Dodger Infielder Jackie Robinson--first Negro to crack the major leagues' color ban.

> Grizzled ex-Masters Champion Doug Ford, 39, has been fretting about his game ever since the winter tour began. He failed to survive the cut in the Los Angeles Open, was out of the money in the San Diego Open, debated quitting the tour before the Bing Crosby tournament. But to Ford, the rugged courses and trying weather (rain, sleet, snow, hail, 40-m.p.h. winds) of California's Monterey Peninsula proved peculiarly hospitable. On the first hole of a sudden-death playoff with chunky Joe Campbell, Ford collected the winner's purse of $5,300.

> Yankee Slugger Roger Maris turned up in Rochester, N.Y., to accept the $10,000 S. Rae Hickok belt, awarded annually to the Professional Athlete of the Year. Maris would not say what he plans to do with the belt--but its 2 3/4 lbs. of gold and 27 diamonds should keep him in hamburgers until he gets around to signing his 1962 Yankee contract.

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