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Half a dozen players, from Seattle's Ken Griffey Jr. to San Francisco's Matt Williams, are on track to hit more than 50 home runs; nobody's done that since 1977. Houston's Jeff Bagwell had 104 RBIs in his first 103 games and could be the first to average one RBI a game since 1949. And in this year when pitchers are surrendering more than five runs a game, Gregg Maddux's stingy 1.69 earned-run average for Atlanta could be one of the great feats in the sport's history. Even the players, who strongly support their...
...ours, not interested. Let the rest of the world play this game (and call it football). Let big companies sign up to promote the sport -- and lots of cars and cameras. Let those foreigners throw their World Cup party in our backyard. We'll stay inside and watch Ken Griffey Jr. hit home runs...
...GRIFFEY...
...October. But this spring, baseball has been bustin' out all over. Home runs have increased 26% over last year; runs batted in are up 11%. And a cluster of young stars threatens to smash offensive records set when George Burns was still in Little League. Seattle's Ken Griffey Jr. is on a pace to hit 65-plus homers. So is Frank Thomas, the Chicago White Sox's baby-faced behemoth. Thomas scored 59 runs by June 1, a record, and Toronto's Joe Carter set an April standard for rbi's. Even pencil-necked pipsqueaks are crushing the ball...
...BALL, STUPID. In a Costa Rican sweatshop, peons are making sure that the Rawlings baseballs they stitch together for the major leagues are wrapped tight, giving them extra flight potential and allowing the Mariners' Griffey to obliterate home-run records set by two imperialist Yankees, Babe Ruth (60 in 1927) and Roger Maris (61 in '61). Anyway, that's one conspiracy theory. Many pitchers and some batters believe the ball has been spiked, but Rawlings says its tests indicate no change. "The ball isn't juiced," says Griffey. But does he have a better idea of what's going...