Word: home-run
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...foregone conclusion that only a major catastrophe could keep the power-laden New York Yankees from their sixth American League pennant in seven years. By last week the Yankees had it made. Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle were both close to breaking Babe Ruth's home-run record; by week's end their combined total broke the two-man record of 107 homers set by Ruth (60) and Gehrig (47) back in 1927. The pitching staff was solid: Whitey Ford was safely on the winning side of his first 20-game season, and Veteran Screwballer Luis Arroyo...
...ball livelier? Were the pitchers duller? Were the bats whippier? American League hitters heated up the argument last week by blasting out two new home-run records...
...this year's heavy barrage from the batter's box, those who hold the rabbit ball responsible point in triumph to the evidence. With more than a month to go, the major-league sluggers have poled 2,094 balls into home-run territory-a figure that, extended to season's end, will set a record. For the first time, Babe Ruth's durable record of 60 home runs, set in 1927, is threatened by two men: Yankee Sluggers Mickey Mantle (45 home runs to date) and Roger Maris, who brought his total to 48 last week...
Since the Brooklyn Dodgers brought Jackie Robinson up from their Montreal farm club in 1947 to break major league baseball's color bar, the National League has had a virtual corner on talented Negro players. Seven of its top ten batters, its top four home-run hitters, its top four in runs-batted-in are colored; the American League has but one Negro among its top ten batters, New York's Elston Howard, none among the leaders in the other two categories. Though Negroes make up roughly 17% of the 200 players on National League rosters, this year...
...Watch what happens when it warms up," said Detroit Pitching Coach Tom Ferrick late this spring. "The bats get a little slower, and the home-run production falls off." But last week, as spring bowed out to summer, major league sluggers, far hotter than the weather, kept whaling home runs at a prodigious pace (TIME, June 23). In six days they belted 120, boosted the season total for both leagues...