Year of the Homer (Contd.)

Major League hidebusters were still belting homers at a prodigious rate. Last week Yankee Mickey Mantle blasted a 450-ft. inside-the-park four-bagger off Yankee Stadium's centerfield wall. Teammate Roger Maris, whose 28 home runs have turned his right ear into a more tempting target than the strike zone, ran into a dry spell, but San Francisco's Willie Mays took up the slack, collected three homers in one game. Even the seventh-place Chicago Cubs got into the act, hitting 17 in six games. Batters poled 112 home runs in six days, boosted big league totals to 1,290.

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