This is last Tuesday night in Oakland, California.

At bat, Reggie Jackson, the right fielder of the Oakland A.

Brabender sends a pitch in, and Jackson sends a long drive to deep straightaway center.

And there it goes, the 30-home run of the season.

Jackson just misses by one day of becoming the second player in Major League history to hit 30 home runs before July 1st. Babe Ruth, the only man who's ever done it in Major League history to hit 30 home runs before July 1st.

Babe Ruth, the only man who's ever done it in Major League history.

So as Jackson has saluted on the scoreboard in Oakland, we'll salute him here today on baseball today.

Reggie Jackson will be our special guest.

This is Kurt Gowdy, along with Tony Kubk, and we didn't have a lot of weird events

happen in baseball this week, Tony, but we did have the Red Sox go into a tailspin. In fact, the

Eastern Division of the American League, which is supposed to be the toughest division, and have

the most exciting race. Now, it finds only probably Detroit right now, gaining a little bit on Baltimore.

Kurt, right here in this Western Division, the American League is the real story, though, I think, and it's between these two ball clubs today. The Minnesota Twins versus the Oakland Aids, they've got quite a pennant race going on. You know, another surprise in this division has been the play of the Seattle Ball Club for a young expansion club they've done very well. And over in the National League, of course, the Western Division of the

National League with Atlanta, the Dodgers,

the Reds, and the San Francisco

Club, that's the most closely bunched race

of the four divisions. And we'll be

back with Reggie Jackson, and

we'll also be back here in a minute right

after this message.

You can feel the swell starting in baseball. You can feel it in the press, the radio and TV around the country about this young right fielder of the

Oakland age, 23-year-old Reggie Jackson, who leaves the majors in home runs with 33. Tony,

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