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...defending world champions, to a humiliating demonstration of speed and muscle. Tiger Ace Mickey Lolich, whose won-lost record was 14-2 before the game, lost the opener, 5-2. In the process, he gave up his first home run of the year, a line shot by Minnesota Second Baseman Rod Carew. In the second game, the Twins chased the Tigers' other star, Denny McLain (15-5), off the mound in the fifth inning; two home runs, including Third Baseman Harmon Killebrew's 30th of the season, blasted the way to an 11-5 victory. Last week Pinchhitter...
...bespectacled Frank Howard. While Jackson is relatively unprepossessing in appearance, Howard at 33 is absolutely forbidding. One of his home runs once splintered a bleacher seat 530 ft. from the plate. A veteran of seven years with the Los Angeles Dodgers, the 6-ft. 7-in., 260-lb. first baseman was always a prodigious but sporadic long-ball hitter. Only after he was traded to the Senators in 1964 did he begin living up to his potential. In 1968 Howard led both leagues with 44 home runs. Says Manager Ted Williams: "That son-of-a-gun is the biggest...
...businessmen is moving ahead at a near sprint. They are athlete-entrepreneurs, and they are scoring as handsomely in business as they have in baseball, football, basketball or track. "It could be that black athletes are setting the pattern, building the momentum," says Ernie Banks, the Chicago Cubs first baseman, who is a partner in a flourishing Ford dealership on the South Side. Though the appearance of black athletes in force is a fairly recent phenomenon, already about 1,000 black-owned enterprises are run by past or present stars of sport...
Died. Robert ("Red") Rolfe, 60, baseball great, from 1934 to 1942 third baseman for the then peerless New York Yankees; of cancer; in Laconia, N.H. Though Rolfe was primarily a glove man, he was also a threat at bat (.289 lifetime average) and noted for his game-winning hits. He helped the Yanks to six pennants and five World Series titles, then as a manager in 1950 startled the baseball world by finishing second with a mediocre Detroit Tiger club that had finished fourth the year before. In 1954, he returned to his alma mater, Dartmouth College, where he served...
Outfielder Paul Blair is also among the league's top ten batters, and First Baseman Boog Powell is second in RBls with 70. All that supporting power should make the Orioles a shoo-in for the American League playoffs. Still, Baltimore's oft-burned fans can be pardoned for glancing over their shoulders occasionally and wondering whether things will look as good come October as they do in July...