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...Reporter-Researcher Paul Witteman, 30, who came to TIME in 1972 after a year as a reporter in Pittsfield, Mass., and graduation from the Columbia School of Journalism, has landed a number of field assignments, but never an assignment quite like last week's. He was sent to Cincinnati to be on hand if Atlanta Braves Slugger Henry Aaron tied Babe Ruth's career home-run record. Witteman ended up seeing a lot more drama than he had bargained...
Leaving the Cincinnati Riverfront Stadium the afternoon before the season's opening game. Witteman looked up to see a dark "funnel" looming in the distant sky. "At first I didn't know what it was," he recalled. By the next morning he learned that it was only one of many tornadoes that had smashed through eleven states (see THE NATION); the twisters had devastated half the city of Xenia, Ohio, only 60 miles away. Witteman called New York and was told to report on the Xenia tragedy-after the game...
That is the way it will look some day in the record book. Last week it was flesh and blood, bat and ball; it was one man and the memory of another at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati. Barely ten minutes into his 21st major league season, Henry Louis Aaron stood at the plate with two Atlanta Brave teammates on base and a count of three balls and one strike. Around him were 52,000 expectant fans. Behind him were six months of anxiety and anticipation. Hanging over him was Babe Ruth's most celebrated feat-714 lifetime home runs...
Columbia boasts experienced strength in the number one and two positions. Top player Henry Bunis, an All-American from Cincinnati, Ohio, earned a 13-3 record last year and was the leading eastern finisher in the NCAA Tournament...
Legends and records die hard in the sporting world and the bigger they are, the harsher the death. When Henry Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit a home run last Thursday afternoon in Cincinnati, his 714th, he tied the most hallowed record held by the biggest legend in all of sports, Babe Ruth's home run mark...