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> Yankee Slugger Roger Maris turned up in Rochester, N.Y., to accept the $10,000 S. Rae Hickok belt, awarded annually to the Professional Athlete of the Year. Maris would not say what he plans to do with the belt-but its 2¾ lbs. of gold and 27 diamonds should...
I nominate Roger Maris.
Most fans would remember it simply as the Year of the Home Run-the year in which more were hit in the major leagues than ever before, the year Roger Maris, who has never batted above .283, hit 61 homers and moved into baseball legend by breaking Babe Ruth'...
· PITCHING. Younger pitchers nursed sore arms and cursed the "rabbit ball," but New York's Whitey Ford, 33, and Milwaukee's Warren Spahn, 40, kept on winning ball games. Spahn's fast ball had lost its zip, and his legs were rubbery from 22 years on...
· BATTING. Although sluggers hogged the headlines, the batting championships went, as usual, to hitters who could slap a single to the opposite field as well as loft a homer into the bleachers. Pittsburgh's flashy Roberto Clemente hit only 23 homers, but he pounded out 201 base hits...