1970 65 1969 NL Home Run Leaders Willie McCovey Hank Aaron Lee May

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1969 NL Home Run Leaders Willie McCovey Hank Aaron Lee May


Home Runs are probably the easiest baseball statistic to follow and remember. Everyone knows the record numbers - lifetime and season. Anyone can glance at the back of this card and see where each player fits in the grand home run totem pole. 

After the 50 players from this list, no one can claim to be a power hitter.   

We see in the list the intersection of rising and falling stars - as Mays, Banks, Clemente, etc. have few big home run years left while Perez, Bench, Oliver and others are just getting started.  Pete Rose would never again hit so many home runs despite his accumulation of so many hitting milestones over the next decade and a half (and more). 

The Pirates and Reds had not won a pennant between them in almost a decade.  But on the back of this card, we see next to "Cin" and "Pitt" the reasons for six of the next 10 NL Pennants. 


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