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...Pattison, 39, used to be a baseball fan-until last week, when he traveled all the way from Vancouver to Houston to attend the 39th annual All-Star game "because I wanted to see the best hitters in baseball." Pattison in stead saw "the biggest bore of my life": a game in which both teams, between them, collected only eight hits and struck out 20 times. The only score came in the first inning, when San Francisco's Willie Mays singled, went to second on a muffed pick-off attempt, to third on a wild pitch, and home...
...award might better have been divvied up among the twelve pitchers. If the game signified anything, it was that baseball has become a pitcher's preserve. Going into the All-Star break, only twelve batters in both leagues were above the .300 mark, and only two of them-Pittsburgh's Matty Alou (.344) and Cincinnati's Pete Rose (.329)-were hitting over .320. Atlanta's Henry Aaron, a lifetime .316 hitter, is currently batting .248; Pittsburgh's Roberto Clemente, a four-time batting champion, is chopping at .252. Six National League and 13 American League...
...lower ERAs than that. Three pitchers-Detroit's Denny McLain (record: 17-2), San Francisco's Juan Marichal (15-4) and Cleveland's Luis Tiant (14-5)-all have a shot at winning 30 games, a feat last accomplished by Dizzy Dean in 1934. Tiant, the All-Star game loser, has an incredible ERA of 1.24; the All-Star winner, Los Angeles' Don Drysdale, is only a few points off that...
...baseball, college and/or the minors, he is already a polished pro. Never before have the majors enjoyed such a surfeit of sophisticated young pitchers. Even the New York Mets boast the likes of Jerry Koosman (12-4) and Tom Seaver (7-6), whose contribution to last week's All-Star game was striking out five American League batters in two innings...
...game's more notable rhubarbs-on July 4, 1945, when he thumbed out the Brooklyn Dodgers' Leo Durocher, bringing down such a rain of missiles that cops had to hustle him from the field. His peers, however, rated him high enough to ump five All-Star games and four World Series...