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Team: Cleveland (by ½ game) Pitcher: Wilhelm, Baltimore (6-0) Batter: Kuenn, Detroit (.378) RBI: Killebrew, Washington (32) HRs: Killebrew, Washington...
...year ago, no pitcher would have bothered to dust off Harmon Clayton Killebrew, 22. But last week young Killebrew was 'the chief reason the sad-sack Senators were as high as fourth place in the American League. At week's end "Killer'' Killebrew led the league in home runs (14). runs scored (29), runs batted...
...onetime wrestler turned house painter, Killebrew was born in Payette, Idaho, just. 15 miles from Weiser, where a Senators' scout discovered the great Walter Johnson 53 years ago. At high school Killebrew starred in football, basketball and baseball, was spotted as a promising native son by Idaho's laie Senator Herman Welker. At Welker's urging, a Washington scout traveled west in 1954 to watch the youngster play semipro ball in the Idaho-Oregon Border League. Killebrew promptly went 14-for-14 (five homers, four triples), belted one homer over a fence 435 ft. away. The tightfisted...
...with Eddie Yost apparently permanently installed at third base, Killebrew found himself playing mostly in the minors. His fielding was sub par, and he struck out too often by going after bad pitches. In sporadic appearances with the Senators, he got into only 113 games in five years, hit a lowly .224. This season Yost was gone (in a trade with Detroit), and Manager Cookie Lavagetto tried nine other candidates before settling on Killebrew. But once the season began, Killebrew took dead aim on the fences, in the space of twelve days hit two homers in each of four games...
...Harmon Killebrew still cannot get over his sudden fame, hangs his head as he jogs around the bases after,a homer as though he were almost ashimed of his feats. "I always admired Johnson," says the Killer. "Now I'm with his team. Harmon Killebrew and Walter Johnson. Silly...