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...Home-Run King Henry Aaron will soon be hanging up his cleats for the year, but the 40-year-old slugger has at least one more road trip in mind first. On Thursday Hammerin' Hank flies to Japan for a home-run hitting contest against Sadaharu Oh, 34, star first baseman for Tokyo's Yomiuri Giants. Oh has 634 lifetime home runs against Aaron's 733 and expects to pass Aaron's total one day. At their Saturday contest, each batter will select a pitcher and then use half an hour trying to rap baseballs...
...started his career as a pitcher and was good enough to win three games for Boston in the 1916 World Series. When he switched to the outfield in 1918, he almost singlehanded made baseball into a slugger's game. His home-run record has been eclipsed, of course, and also the Ruth lifetime batting record of .342.* But the Babe's 1920 season for the Yankees, during which he batted .376, hit 54 home runs, 9 triples, 36 doubles, scored 158 times, batted in 137 runs and stole 14 bases, is still the best year any major leaguer...
...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...
Cincinnati Pitcher Jack Billingham threw a fastball-which, he later admitted, got away. An instant later, Aaron's home-run ball No. 714 cleared the 375-ft. marker in left centerfield and bounced into the hands of a startled policeman, Clarence Williams, who was patrolling an alley between the field and the stands. "I'm just glad it's almost over with," Aaron said after the game was stopped so he could be presented with the ball returned by Williams...
...first three games in Cincinnati? "You can lead a batter to the box," says one unconcerned Braves fan, "but you can't make him homer." The Cincinnati Reds, though, are taking no chances. All balls pitched to Aaron will be invisibly coded to assure that the genuine home-run balls will be identifiable. Security forces will be on the alert, and one devoted fan will be at Riverfront Stadium every day accompanied by three policemen and $12,000 in cash to buy home-run ball No. 715 if Aaron happens to break the record in Cincinnati...