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The Seaforth News, 1958-05-22, Page 7Will Willie Mays Beat Babe's Record? . • Year afteryear the fans and *he experts pick a ball player end predict that he, will beat Babe Ruth's home run record — bti.t this season it could really happen,. 'Willie Mays, the .jet action outfielder of the San Francisco Giants, could top the most •fa- bulous record in the baseball history books on a fluke! Because they moved from New '!York to San Francisco, the Giants will play this season in a- minor league park where closer fences figure to be a home run heaven for the mighty Mays.' To increase his . chances, he will play eleven games in Los An- •geles against the Dodgers, in a Coliseum batting range where a pop fly to left field will be a home run. So Willie — the only active player to hit more than 50 home runs in a season — could wipe out the immortal Babe Ruth's 1927 record of 60 homers in one ;season, a magic mark which has withstood the assault of the game's greatest sluggers for 31 years. If so, it will be the saddest accident that ever happened to major league baseball. Willie, it goes without saying, is a magni- ficent ball player. But for him to surpass the Babe's mark in such circumstances, will make a mockery of the game's stan- dards. It well could happen, though. The reason is that Mays hits to left center field. At the aban- doned Polo Grounds in New York, formerly the home field of the Giants, Willie's homers had to be hit a country mile lbecause left centre there is a blast of anywhere from 450 to 470 feet to reach the stands. In Seals Stadium, a minor league park which the Giants will use in San Francisco while, their new stadium is being erect- ed, the distance is only 412 feet from home plate to the farthest spot in deep center field. Willie's power target is less than 400 feet — and he'll have 77 home >tames in which to draw his bead. There are also the 11 games be : will play in the Dodgers' - Coliseum, another temporary park while a stadium is being erected, and there the left field barrier is a mere 250 feet from home plate. "Sometimes I hit homer s in bunches of five or six," Willie grins. He well can smile. In those 11 games alone, with that pop fly target, he might hit them in bunches by the dozen, If Willie were to play all his home games in the Coliseum, Ruth's record would be a dead duck. For, as Duke Snider of • the Dodgers observed sadly — being a left-handed hitter: "Every day will be Christmas for right-handed hitters. Why, the weakest right-handed hitter in the league will be hitting pop fly home runs over that screen." Willie, a right-handed hitter, isn't the weakest hitter in the league by any stretch of the ima- gination. Without the added help Of shorter fences for 88 games —77 at San Francisco and 11 in the Los Angeles Coliseum — he previously was tabbed by not less an expert than Hank Green- berg as the man who might break Ruth's record. "Somebody will have to do it e o m e d a y ," says Greenberg. "Mays certainly could be the one." To do it in the present cir- cumstances would rob Willie et the credit which should go ulti- mately to the man who does break Ruth's mark legitimately. Looking over Seals Stadium, where Mays will play half of his games this season, owner Horace Stoneham observed: "It's surely an inviting place for Willie to hit." Mays had to agree. "I don't want to say how much bili' I'll bit better here,", he said. There are two other factors which could help Willie in a phony shattering of the Babe's record. The first is that he isn't likely to tighten up when he gets close to the 60 mark because Mays, a thorough teals man, actually doesn't care whether he breaks Ruth's record or not The second is the way they have cut him loose on the basepaths. Willie last season ran wild on the bases. In 1956 he stole 40 of them, the highest since Kiki Cuyler pilfered 43 in 1929. Then he swiped 98 more in 1957. This means that the pitchers can't afford to give him as many free passes because Willie always is a threat to work himself into scoring position anyhow writes Oscar Fraley in The Police Ga- zette. Greenberg, who along with Jimmy Fox walloped 58 homers to make the closest previous ap- proach to Ruth's record, proves the value of Willie's amazing ability to relax and forget the big record. "When I got close," Hank said, "every time I walked' up to the plate toward the end of the season I could feel the pressure building up." All of the "50 hitters" and. there were only six counting Ruth, himself, before Mays club- bed 51 in 1955 - felt that same pressure. Hack Wilson got. to 56 in 1930 before the roof fell in and Ralph Kiner had 54 in 1949 as well as tying Johnny Mize with 51 in 1947. "Home run hitters ride in Cadillacs," Kiner explained. "Singles hitters ride in Fords, So it was only natural to be swinging for the seats when you only needed a half dozen more to tie the big record — and then knew you weren't going to do it as the days dwindled away on you, It was a sad feeling, I'll tell you." But Willie says that he doesn't givea hoot for the Ruth record —and he says it so that he makes you believe him. That "don't care" attitude about home runs or records could spell the dif- ference if he went winging down the final month of the season needing only a relaxed attitude to carry him home. Willie faces the issue squarely, "Everybody's always talkin' about my hitting and whether I'm gonna hit those 60 runs that Ruth hit," he analyzes, "But, believe me, I'd rather win a game with a little. old single than hit a dozen home runs — or 60 — that don't count." The only records he . cares about, he grins, are those by Count Basie and Duke Ellington. Speedy Going Now the B-29 was behind and far below me as. the fiery furnace of burning propellants hurled me upward. Catching my breath at last, I spoke with effort over the radio. "Three chambers fir- ing," I said deliberately, main- taining a calm and even voice so I could be understood by the listeners on the ground. Still climbing with me but rapidly falling behind, Chuck Yeager in the F-80 chase plane came on the air to confirm my engine start. "Everything looks fine from here," he assured me. I was alone now, but hardly conscious of my surroundings, as I held the nose of the soaring rocket ship in a steep climb up- ward. The control wheel moved impulsively in my hands and my grip instinctively, tightened to steady it as the rushing air blasted against the hurtling plane. My eyes were concentrat- ed on the air speed indicator and my arms strained achingly GOODBYE, OLD PAL—Members of the _ "Friends to Animals" dedicate a memorial in Paris, France, to Laika, the space - traveling dog that died in Sput- nik II, A bronze, cut -away rep- resentation of the earth satellite atop the stone pedestal. shows Laika inside. The dog saying his farewell to Laika is Dandy Des Herbieres, an international champion, against the control surface as f strove to hold the climb angle that would keep my upward rush at the predetermined speed. A mere flick of my eye muscles, no more than the frac- tion . of a second, showed me altitude was already 45,000 feet. Now ever so slowly, ever so care- fully, I pushed forward on the wheel to nose over into level flight. A glance at the Mach - meter and then back to the alti- meter. Speed now was Mach .9— nine-tenths of the speed of sound. The upward rush of the airplane continued and accelerated as it passed 50,000 feet. Now I reached down and turn- off my Machmeter. Still a crude makeshift instrument, it was not designed to operate at extreme altitudes. The altimeter stood at 65,000 feet. I was aware ofthe absence of sound in the cockpit, broken only by the static of the radio in the headset, as I pointed the nose of the X-1 skyward again and switched on the fourth rocket chamber for the final por- tion of my climb. Sound could not tell me it did not start, for *11 sound was be- hind me. Only from the blank eye on the chamber pressure gauge, a dot of emptiness in the shadowy cockpit, did I know the fourth chamber was not firing, But there was no time to specu- late'on the reason for the mal- function. 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