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Others are certainly trying. Boston's Carl Yastrzemski and Minnesota's Harmon Killebrew have slammed 28 home runs apiece. In the National League, San Francisco's Willie McCovey and Cincinnati's Lee May also have 28, while Atlanta's durable Hank Aaron has 24, to bring his career total to 534. With the season little more than half over, seven or eight hitters thus have a shot at hitting 50 or more home runs-a feat that has been accomplished by only nine players in major league history.* If 1968 was the year...
...slugger -Jones has another proud distinction. He is one of the few players in major-league history to be a righthanded batter and a lefthanded thrower. He came by his aberration honestly, while growing up in Mobile, Ala., the town that also produced Satchel Paige, Hank Aaron, Willie McCovey, Billy Williams and Met Teammate Tommie Agee. "We played stickball when we were kids," he explains, "and there was this porch on the first-base side. If you hit the ball up there it was lost, and it wasn't easy to get another one. So naturally, when I came...
...rattling the fences from Crosley Field to Candlestick Park. The team batting average is .270, tops in either league by 18 points. Four of their hitters are among the league's top ten; a fifth, Third Baseman Tony Perez, is second only to San Francisco's Willie McCovey in RBls with...
...McCovey, San Francisco...
Denny McLain will start for the American League, and all he will be asked to do is mow down the likes of McCovey, Mays, Aaron, Clements, Santo, and Torre. McLain worked Saturday, but he'll work harder today...