Swinging Sweet

Guess how many home runs ?

A lot. I will divulge later on. Mays was maybe the best fielder of the three. Killebrew maybe the most clutch. Mantle, the best switch hitter and also a damn fine base runner, apologies to Willie.

It doesn't matter how many they  hit, it matters how they hit them.

All these hitters had sweet swings,
and all has Hall of Fame careers.


Killebrew was the pure slugger, Willie Mays the pure hitter, and Mickey Mantle was pure genius.

I don't care how many home runs each of them got, but to be fair, Mays hit 660, Killebrew hit 573, and Mickey Mantle hit 536 long balls.

In 68 , we had quite a year, the Hawk led the AL in Rib Eyes, just a few more than Frank Howard and quite a few more than 3rd place Jim Northrup of the Tigers.