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FIRST BASE--Orlando Cepeda.. That's all you need to say to realize that San Francisco is better equipped. His only trouble is he has problems when the pressure is on, but 33 homers and a .300 batting mark make him the pick over Moose Skowron, who had a tough, .270 year...
...over .300-Elston Howard (.353), Mickey Mantle (.317) and Johnny Blanchard (.305)-but Roger Maris slammed a record 61 home runs, Mantle hit 54, and no fewer than six Yankees hit 20 or more. So powerful was the Yanks' new Murderers' Row that First Baseman Bill Skowron (28 homers) found himself batting seventh in the lineup...
...course the Yankees are good. Six men hit more than 20 home runs for the Bombers this season--Maris (61), Mickey Mantle (54), Bill Skowron (28), Yogi Berra (22), Elston Howard (21), and John Blanchard (21). But you must remember that all these inflated marks were made in a 162* game* season.* Howard also had the highest batting average on either World Series team--.348 (which is equivalent to approx. .327 for a 154 game season...
...Mickey Mantle hit his 48th. to give the New York Yankees 193 for the season, tying the American League team record that the Yankees set last year. Teammates Moose Skowron and Hector Lopez promptly hit two more homers to set a new record. With a month to go, the Yankees seem certain to better the major league mark of 221 home runs. CJ The Los Angeles Angels and Baltimore Orioles sent six home runs sailing out of the Angels' Wrigley Field, to push the season's total in the West Coast bandbox to 204. Previous American League record...
There are also the Bronx Bombers, but every World Series fan knows of Mantle, Berra, Maris, Skowron, Ford and company. It's a tough bunch to beat...