Word: sluggers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harmon Clayton Killebrew, 28, is 6 ft. tall, weighs a meaty 213 lbs., and keeps very quiet about the whole thing. He won the American League home-run crown with 48 in 1962, did it again last year with 45. But that was nothing. The righthanded slugger already has 39 this summer, is swinging at a pace that could set a new major league record...
...Commissioner Ford Frick accepted both the home-run marks of Babe Ruth (60 in 154 games) and Roger Maris (61 in 162 games), statistics-crazed fans have been in a quandary. Nobody knows whose pace to follow. Result: the once-consuming pastime of charting the progress of the current slugger has declined. Now Killebrew may settle it once and for all by knocking both records out of the park. At the end of last week he was 7 games ahead of Ruth's pace, and within striking distance of Maris. Killebrew this year is averaging one homer every...
...Phillies' starting outfielders came by way of trades. The farm system did the rest, producing Pitchers Art Mahaffey (3-2 this year) and Dennis Bennett (5-3), acrobatic Shortstop Bobby Wine, and the brightest new star of all, Third Baseman Richie Allen, a 22-year-old slugger who has nine homers to his credit so far this year...
JACK YOUNGERMAN - Parsons, 24 West 57th. Born in Cassius Clay's hometown, he shares some of the Louisville slugger's expansiveness. His enormous abstractions become arenas where mammoth forms-within-forms wage war with raw colors for attention and space. Through April...
Withdrawal Pangs. No golfer can win all the time. But so far this year, Slugger Arnie is batting .000. At the Bing Crosby National, Palmer failed even to survive the cut; last week at Palm Springs, he wound up out of the money for the second time in five tournaments. His burly buddy Jack Nicklaus, who won $100,040 last year, had only $1,900 to show for three weeks of work. Both of them had excuses of a sort: Nicklaus was still out of practice from a seven-week fishing vacation in Florida, and Palmer was suffering withdrawal pangs...