HIGHLIGHTS: Ireland secure qualification to world series

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Oct. 7, 1964 - Young Mike Shannon and broken-jawed Carl Warwick struck key blows in a four-run sixth inning uprising today that gave the underdog Cardinals a 9-5 victory over the Yankees in the opening game of the World Series. A standing room throng of 30,805 at St. Louis’ first Series game since 1946 savored the spectacle of the proud Yankees losing their fifth straight Series game. The Cardinals turned the game into a rout in the eighth with three unearned runs. Shannon, a young man recalled