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This section offers news briefs on baseball in the U.S. for the week ending May 27, 1968. After watching reruns of his 1967 hitting, Boston Red Sox's Carl Yastrzemski has increased his season's 67 points and moved into fourth in the batting race. In the National League, San Francisco Manager Herman Franks has decided to put rookie Frank Johnson into the starling lineup. Philadelphia was on the winning track with a 1-0, five-hit victory.

The article presents a baseball anecdote concerning the night life in Montreal, Quebec. When the Chicago Cubs visited the city to play the former Montreal Expos, then-manager Herman Franks tried a trick to see if his players were breaking curfew, giving the hotel doorman a baseball for late-returning players to autograph. Franks arose shortly after dawn to find none of his players had autographed the ball, because they had yet to return to the hotel.