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ST. LOUIS, JANUARY 27, 1960
VOLUME 149, N m iB E R I
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By JO E KING NEW YORK, N. Y. The epic e ra of Ted Williams and Stan Musiai is not quite ended, but there is already a spectacular group of younger hitters with the surpassing talents to m aintain the aura of g lam o r that distinguishes m ajo r league ball. The kids, in fact, have largely taken command of the statistics from the old pros of 30 and more, led-by “grandpappies’' Musiai and Williams. The youngsters have established their own generation of batsmanship, and it’s fa r from beatnik. All the boys need now is the spot* light which Ted and Stan finally m ust relinquish. Hank Aaron, A! Kaline, F ran k Robinson, Harmon Killebrew, Orlando Cepeda, Vada Pinson and Bob Allison a re not yet p ast 25, and a comet such a s Pinson is only 21. In the National League, four men 28 y e a rs old assault the ball for pow -' c r and percentage—Willie Mays, Ed Mathews. Ernie Banks and Ken Boyer. In the A m erican League, Rocky Colavito, H arvey Kuenn, Woodie Held and Mickey Mantle a re over 25, but not yet 30. Shed No T ears for Ted and Stan As they file aw ay the Williams and Musiai records. Prexies Joe Cronin and W arren Giles need not look back nostalgically or shed a tea r for the future. Instead, they can break out the bongo drum s and get hot for the stars they have, because several even . now indicate they will rank among the gam e's best.. In fact, I can also see Branch Rickey in the wings saying, *T told you so.*' The Continental League pres ident has stressed th a t there is no shortage of prospects, and that if he can operate a farm system along his own ideas for three years, he will produce m ore players of quality "th an you can shake a stick a t." The new e ra could be called the Mays-Mantle generation, because they were the first of the current wonder kids to arrive—back in '51. Kuenn and Mathews cam e in '52, Kaline and Banks in '53, and Killebrew, Aaron, Joe Cunningham and Vie Power, to nam e a few more oncoming hitters, arrived in *54. Boyer was introduced in '55, Cola^nio and Robinson in *56, Held and Bobby Richardson, who reached .300 last season, ia *57, „and Cejjeda and P in so n in ^58, Allison w a s ‘‘the sta r A’ookic of '59 with a bat, and there w ere four m ore who im pressed aU though they did not arrive ijj Sme Iffl* qualify fo r cchamplonships© T hese w e re W illie McCovey* J.ee y^ayco Johnny Romano^ and Russ Sny» dei'c IheiTi th e re w a s Tito Franconai, a rookie o{ **56i, m aking ^ ^icomebacli’** ^ 4 C 0 J iT W E iS i
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