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Matt Murphy, the lucky New Yorker who caught the historic 756th career home run hit by Barry Bonds in San Francisco earlier this month, is about to cash in. The online bidding war for the Bonds ball began Tuesday, and ends on Sept. 15, at scpauctions.com. Murphy, 21, caught up with TIME's Sean Gregory to talk about winning the Bonds lottery...
...ongoing Story of Oh, slugger met slugger. Baseball Great Hank Aaron journeyed to Japan to congratulate the Yomiuri Giants' first baseman Sadaharu Oh, 37, for hitting his 756th home run (TIME, Sept. 12)-and topping the U.S. major league record set by Aaron himself in 1976. After a few words to the 45,000 Japanese fans in Tokyo's Korakuen Stadium, Hank, clad in mufti, slammed a ball into the leftfield bleachers while the crowd chanted: "Aaron, Aaron, Aaron!" Hammerin' Hank even toted along a special present for Oh, who has a peculiar habit of raising...
...BEEN WAITING FOR blazed the sign above Tokyo's Korakuen Stadium last week. In the third inning of a game between the Yomiuri Giants and the Yakult Swallows, First Baseman Sadaharu Oh, 37, blasted a low, inside pitch into the rightfield stands 377 ft. away. It was his 756th career home run-one more than the American major league record set in 1976 by Hank Aaron. Declared Oh, who was promptly named first holder of a National Hero Honors Order by the government: "I have finally put down an unbearable burden." Aaron hailed the slugger's achievement, cabling...
Thus began a promising career in the professional game. And thus (last December) it ended when Red held up his hand and said "I solemnly swear." He found his niche in the M. P.'s and served with the 756th at Springfield until the Army decided it needed his brain even more than it needed his brawn. This also meant his elevation to the rank of Private First Class, a distinction which might be regarded lightly in some circles, but for Leo it means he can now pull his rank on his erstwhile boss, "Lex" Thompson, who recently made Private...