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...Cannon. By the end of last season, Carew was swinging for the fences every time at bat. As a result, he finished the year with a disappointing .273 average. This year, for Carew and the team, statistics are improving notably. And much of the credit goes to their cagey, choleric rookie manager, Billy Martin...
...look like an overpowering slugger. Yet in a season dominated by superlative pitching, he hit 29 home runs. He also struck out 171 times-the second-highest total in major-league history. On top of that, he led American League outfielders in errors with twelve. "I took the bat with me to the outfield," Jackson explains. "When I did poorly at the plate, I used to brood about it out there...
Biggest and Strongest. This year, Jackson's fielding is much slicker, and his strikeout rate is down by 25%. He has also switched from a 33-oz. to a 37-oz. bat, and the results have been awesome. One of his homers cleared the left centerfield fence in Kansas City, 480 ft. from home plate and nearly 80 ft. up. "They say it went 600 and change," says Jackson. He batted in ten runs in a game with Boston. During a recent game in Oakland, he belted three home runs against Seattle pitchers. After he cracked two home runs...
Died. Robert ("Red") Rolfe, 60, baseball great, from 1934 to 1942 third baseman for the then peerless New York Yankees; of cancer; in Laconia, N.H. Though Rolfe was primarily a glove man, he was also a threat at bat (.289 lifetime average) and noted for his game-winning hits. He helped the Yanks to six pennants and five World Series titles, then as a manager in 1950 startled the baseball world by finishing second with a mediocre Detroit Tiger club that had finished fourth the year before. In 1954, he returned to his alma mater, Dartmouth College, where he served...