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...rookie on that starry '71 team of Bobby Bonds and the Willies, McCovey and Mays, Speier has been a utility player on this new Giant club that seems to feature them. He and Candy Maldonado's outfield understudy, Mike Aldrete, have been particularly handy. "Sometimes," says Speier, 37, "I think I take more pride in this job than I did playing every day. Roger Craig has penciled in over 120 different lineups this year. One thing's for sure, we certainly feel like a team...
...Willie Mayses are the perennial hope of baseball, which, counting McCovey and Stargell, is completely out of wondrous Willies now and is missing Henry Aaron and Roberto Clemente too. And Frank Robinson and Lou Brock. The widespread news that they have all come back as Eric Davis of the Cincinnati Reds is a prospect more wishful and bountiful than seems humanly possible just 30 games into another season...
...Clemente reached his high of .352 at age 36. DiMaggio hit .381 at 24, Kaline .340 at 20, Williams .406 at 23, and McCovey...
...Willie McCovey...
...come together at All-Star games, a mortifying subject to American Leaguers after 19 losses in the past 20 games. Though the National League has always been more progressive in matters of race, it seems too simple an explanation to say that the Nationals cornered all the Willies-Mays, McCovey and Stargell-not to mention most of the Robertos-Clemente and his brother Latins. There may be a factor that does not involve talent...