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...team race about a month into the campaign. Just as in the East, there isn't much question about who will win. Oakland had the Seat pitching next to the Orioles, with or without movie star Vida Blue, and has a good offense to match. Reggie Jackson, the moody slugger, made a strong comeback last year and may do even better this year, while Campy Campaneris, Sal Bando, and Mike Epstein will produce enough runs between them to assure the A's of a second chance against Baltimore in October...
...sophomores have a chance to break into the varsity ladder. Glen Whitman, number one off last year's Yardlings, has been ambitious in the spending practices. "He needs to be transformed from the slugger to the sophisticated tactician," Barnaby commented. Sophomore Archie Gwathmay, who won the New England junior championship two years ago, is another contender. He is a big, tall player who has the athletic ability to move into one of the bottom four positions...
Everyone in baseball knows the main reason why the Pittsburgh Pirates are leading the National League's Eastern Division. Leftfielder Wilver Dornel Stargell is leading everyone in baseball in home runs and runs batted in. But why, exactly, is the lefthanded slugger hitting so well this season? Some say it's because the rightfield power alley in Pittsburgh's new Three Rivers Stadium is 23 ft. shorter than it was in Forbes Field, the Pirates' old home. Others explain that Willie is using a new bludgeon of a bat that is four ounces heavier...
...about Mayday is to talk about the little isolated events that stick in my mind. Like the police busting twelve of us for obstructing traffic when we were going 25 miles an hour in a 25 zone, and then, as we're being arrested, an officer taking his Louisville Slugger and smashing the front windshield of our van, and then slashing the tires with a knife. And coming back four hours later to try to pick up the van, and finding the police had exploded popper gas inside, and watching the cops across the street laugh as we choke...
...other National League park. Aaron is off to a fast start in his 18th season with eight homers so far. To best Ruth's mark, he must average 24.6 home runs this season and the next four-a tough but not impossible feat for a slugger who has averaged 38.8 homers in the past five years. Many baseball men agree with Las Vegas Oddsmaker Jimmy ("The Greek") Snyder, who rates Mays as a 4-1 shot and Aaron as an even bet-barring injuries, of course-in the Babe Ruth derby...