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ALL EDITIONS D-12 The Arizona Republic Phoenix, Sunday, June 17, 1973 Aaron's 715th home run should be 'like batting practice' speed fastball down the middle. It will be like batting practice. I'd be a fool not to do it." want to be remembered that way." Billingham agrees. ''If I'm going to be remembered, I want it to be because of something good 1 did. I don't want to leave my mark on the game that way." icsn't want to be remembered because of Aaron's bat either.

"I know that giving up the home run certainly wouldn't be to the pitcher's advantage. There's a lot of other ways to get to be remembered and I'd like to try those wavs. Houston's Dave Roberts that way," he says. "He'd get the endorsements. I'd be the goat." But there's no argument that surrendering an historic home run is one ay to leave your mark on the game.

Tracy Stallard probably would have been forgotten as just another 30-57 pitcher, but for one pitch, the one that Roger Maris deposited in the right field stands at Yankee Stadium for No. 61 in 1961. "I don't want to be Tracy Stallard," Ray Sadeckiofthe Mets says matter-of-factly. "Everyone knows who he is." San Diego pitcher Bill Greif isn't interested in being recalled that way either. "The guy who gives up No.

715 will be more infamous than famous," he says. "I wouldn't GETTING 34 MI.GAL? MARK IMPORTS FIAT 2000 E. Indian School Associated Press NEW YORK Henry Aaron has worked very hard for his home runs but if some pitchers have their way. No. 715, the one that breaks Babe Ruth's career mark, will be his easiest.

"I'd throw a medium fast ball right down the pike." says St. Louis pitcher Reggie Cleveland. "If he's going to pet it off somebody, it might as well be me." But not if Los Angeles Dodgerer hurler Andy Mes-sersmith beats him to it. "I'll lay it right in," he says. Not to be outdone.

Houston pitcher Larry Dierker say, "I think I'd throw one right down the middle, just to see what happened." Come September, if Aaron continues at his present home run clip, he should be nearing Ruth's total of 714 homers. By then the pennant races may be decided but the race to serve Aaron's 715th on a silver platter should be just heating up. Already the volunteers are stepping forward. Apparently a lot of guys who normally earn their living by throwing baseballs past batters see Aaron's 715th as a clout ith a silver lining and they want to cash in on it. "Everyone is in this game for money," says Phil Henni-gan whose paycheck is signed by the New York Mets.

"If it's me, I'll tell him what's coming. It will be a half- Met Tug McGraw also thinks that being Aaron's victim No. 715 could be financially rewarding. "I'd throw my best pitch and hope like hell he hits it," says the effervescent McGraw ho not only throws a screwball but sometimes acts like one. "I'd be a commodity.

I'd always be in demand on the banquet circuit." Dierker, who doesn't throw a screwball but still owns a reputation for flakiness, wasn't interested in the money. "I wouldn't be doing it to get into the record book or for the endorsements I might get. I'd do it just for the hell of it, because it seems like a crazy thing to do." Whether there is much demand for a pitcher who gives up a big home run is debatable. In American sports, winners usually get the glory. But some enterprising ad man could probably find a spot for the pitcher who surrenders Aaron's shot heard round the world.

Cincinnati pitcher Jack Bill-ingham, however, doesn't think so. "Endorsements? There wouldn't be any. And if there were, they'd be the kind that would make you look like a jerk." Reds reliever Clay Carroll agrees with his teammate. "I don't want to be remembered WESTERN STATES TIRES 301 1507 3110 East Dunlap S. Country Club E.

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