Word: baseman
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...line-up is a murderers' row, capable of crunching some of Carlton's fastballs over the fence and blowing the playoffs wide open. The numbers tell the whole story: first baseman Steve Garvey (.300, 33 HR's, 115 RBI's), the defensive wizard of right field Reggie Smith (.307, 30, 84), third baseman Ron Cey (30 HR's, 110 RBI's), and left filder Dusty Baker (29, 85) lead the hitting parade...
...small things will probably determine the playoff winner. L.A. second baseman Dave Lopes' ex- plosive baserunning, well-executed cutoff throws, timely double plays--these are the rarely noted but critically important factors that are the stuff of championship teams...
...ongoing Story of Oh, slugger met slugger. Baseball Great Hank Aaron journeyed to Japan to congratulate the Yomiuri Giants' first baseman Sadaharu Oh, 37, for hitting his 756th home run (TIME, Sept. 12)-and topping the U.S. major league record set by Aaron himself in 1976. After a few words to the 45,000 Japanese fans in Tokyo's Korakuen Stadium, Hank, clad in mufti, slammed a ball into the leftfield bleachers while the crowd chanted: "Aaron, Aaron, Aaron!" Hammerin' Hank even toted along a special present for Oh, who has a peculiar habit of raising...
THIS IS THE MOMENT ALL JAPAN HAS BEEN WAITING FOR blazed the sign above Tokyo's Korakuen Stadium last week. In the third inning of a game between the Yomiuri Giants and the Yakult Swallows, First Baseman Sadaharu Oh, 37, blasted a low, inside pitch into the rightfield stands 377 ft. away. It was his 756th career home run-one more than the American major league record set in 1976 by Hank Aaron. Declared Oh, who was promptly named first holder of a National Hero Honors Order by the government: "I have finally put down an unbearable burden." Aaron...
...along with two others forms "the Big Three." The second is the 1910 Sweet Caporal card of Philadelphia Athletics Pitcher Eddie Plank, whose printing plate broke during production, making the card a rarity currently worth $1,900. The third, worth $1,500, is the card of Cleveland Second Baseman Napoleon ("Larry") Lajoie that was issued by the Goudey Gum Co. as a special edition in 1934 when several collectors complained of Lajoie's omission the year before. (Most 1934 Goudey gum cards are worth about...