The night Juan Marichal pitched in Dubuque

It was a Monday night in June, 53 years ago.
The visiting MICHIGAN CITY WHITECAPS were attempting to hold off the DUBUQUE PACKERS at the latter's Fourth Street Park. In doing so, the White Caps (a Giants affiliate in the MIDWEST LEAGUE) would snap a 15-game winning streak for the Packers (a White Sox farm team).
The TELEGRAPH HERALD sports editor of the time, Mitch Milavetz, described the White Caps' pitching in his game story in the following days' newspaper:
"The first Michigan City pitcher, Ken Bracey, treated the Packers without respect. He struck out three out of four men in the first inning. A pain in his elbow forced him out of the game after allowing a single to Frank Szymanski in the second. Jim Smiske came in and worked 2-1/3 innings when manager Buddy Kerr decided the game was too important to trust in unsteady hands, and reached into his bullpen for Juan Marcihal (sic), rated the tops of the White Cap staff and perhaps the best hurler in the league."
That was the debut of future Hall of Fame pitcher JUAN MARICHAL in Dubuque. He worked 5-2/3 innings of relief, giving up four hits, one run, striking out three and having his name misspelled in the newspaper the next day.
After finishing a story of my own at work yesterday, I delved into the archives to learn how Marichal fared in 1958, when he was a 20-year-old playing in a league that once included team from here.
Marichal won Midwest League Rookie of the Year honors for the 1958 season, leading the league in wins with a 21-8 record. His White Caps won the first-half pennant but lost to the Waterloo Hawks in the 1958 Midwest League Championship Series.
Against Dubuque, Marichal went 2-2, with an ERA of 2.14 (his overall league ERA was 1.87), striking out 40 batters in 42 innings.
He only pitched twice in Dubuque, however, and both times were in relief.
The Dominican with the high leg kick, who won more Major League games in the 1960s than any other pitcher had left his mark on Dubuque, despite the limited appearances in town.
By the end of the season, the Telegraph Herald sportswriters not only knew how to spell his name, they had learned to add the appendage "the great" to the front of it.