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...HANK (NBC, 8-8:30 p.m.). A comedy about an unregistered college student...
...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 off his forward foot, regularly swings at the first pitch, is a notorious bad ball hitter. "I've seen Hank hit pitches right off his ear into the rightfield grandstand," says Pittsburgh's Bob Friend. Another opposition pitcher once complained: "The last two pitches I threw at Aaron's head, he hit out of the park...
Last week in St. Louis, Hank leaned clear across the plate to reach for a wide, soft curve thrown by the Cardinals' Curt Simmons. He belted it onto the rightfield pavilion roof−but Umpire Chris Pelekoudas called him out for stepping out of the batter's box. Groused Aaron: "He didn't say anything the time before, 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...
...Robert James Monday," responded the Athletics' Farm Director Hank Peters, "outfielder from Santa Monica, Calif., a sophomore at Arizona State University in Tempe...
With all those fans waiting in Atlanta, baseball's Braves are sadly losing both money and prestige in Milwaukee. Powered by such sluggers as Eddie Mathews, Joe Torre and Hank Aaron, the Braves were only 2½ games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers last week and tasting World Series. Milwaukee couldn't care less. Attendance has fallen as low as 913 people at one game, and in contrast to the mid-1950's when Milwaukee packed in 2,000,000 fans a year, the total this year after 22 dates is only...