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...which makes Minnesota's Tony Oliva, 25, just about the luckiest hitter in baseball-and close to the best. In 1964, as a baby-faced Cuban farm lad who spoke practically no English ("Tony talks so bad," cracked Fellow Cuban Zoilo Versalles, the Twins' shortstop, "that he even says 'ain't' in Spanish"). Outfielder Oliva hit 32 home runs and batted .323-thus becoming the first rookie ever to win the American League's batting championship. Last year, playing with a bad knee and a painfully bruised hand, he drove in 98 runs...
...Oliva, Minnesota...
...Siebein, Reichardt; Minnesota, Oliva...
...onto his money. Imagine. Pitcher Jim ("Mudcat") Grant won 21 games last year, but he had to hold out for 17 days to get the kind of raise he wanted. As a result, he has looked just awful: 17 hits, ten runs in 14 innings. Then there is Tony Oliva, who has won the batting championship every year he has been in the American League. The first year, Griffith paid him $7,500. The second year, Oliva got $9,500. This year he hired a lawyer and held out. Two weeks later, he signed...
...American League's Minnesota Twins, boast only one pitcher who has even won 20 games, Jim ("Mudcat") Grant-and his earned-run average is a so-so 3.22. The Twins do have plenty of power: Harmon Killebrew has hit 24 homers, Bob Allison has 23, and Tony Oliva, the American League batting champion (at .321) has 16. What's more, because of a quirk in the schedule, the Twins won't have to face Sandy Koufax in the opening game of the Series...