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...lithe, 180-lb. six-footer whose wrists are bigger (8 in. around) than Cassius Clay's, Aaron, 31, is a superb fielder, a dangerous base runner (19 stolen bases in 22 attempts) as well as a natural hitter who says, "I just grab a bat and look for the baseball. If it's near the plate, I swing at it." Technically, he does almost everything wrong: he stands at the very back of the batter's box (where it is practically impossible to reach pitches before they break), has a hitch in his swing, hits...
...when I did the same thing and popped up." Some pitchers think that Aaron toys with them, making himself look bad on certain pitches so they will throw the same pitches again. But Hank himself insists that there is no subterfuge behind his hitting. "I've got a bat, and all the pitcher's got is a ball," he says. "That gives me a natural edge...
...into extra innings it went. "The same thing is going to happen again," moaned Maloney. In the top of the tenth, Cincinnati Shortstop Leo Cardenas finally hit a home run, to make it 1-0. Then the Cubs came to bat. Jim walked the first man he faced. Then he bore down. Billy Williams flied out, Ernie Banks bounced into a double play, and whooping, dancing Reds mobbed their hero on the mound. "Now that I've finally won one of these," said Maloney, "I'm confident I can do it again...
Black Channel. The war's major bat tleground was a 20-sq.-mi. ghetto. Watts is the kind of community that cries out for urban renewal, poverty programs, job training. Almost anything would help. Two-thirds of its residents have less than a high school education; one-eighth of them are technically illiterate...
...Mele's new faces, he still builds his attack around an oldtimer, Harmon Killebrew, 29, a ham-armed slugger who has hit 288 home runs and is closing in on Babe Ruth's home-run rate: Ruth ticked off a homer for every 11.8 times at bat; Killebrew is rapping one for every 12.9. Moreover, Killebrew gets his homers when they are most needed. In the last inning of the recent series against the Yankees, the Twins were trailing 5-4; with two men out, one man on, and the count at 3-2, Killebrew pounded Pete Mikkelsen...