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In 1930, Mel Harder played in 36 games for the Cleveland Blues, batting in all of them. He had 63 at bats, getting 9 hits, for a .143 batting average, with 2 sacrifice hits, sacrifice flies, and 4 runs batted in. He was walked 2 times. He struck out 28 times. He hit 2 doubles, 1 triples, and 0 home runs.
Again, there was no Mel Kiner in major league baseball. Ralph Kiner, however, hit 47 home runs for the NL last place Pittsburgh Pirates. That lead the NL in homers for Kiner for the 5th straight year. He would go on the lead in NL in home runs in both 1951 and 1952.
Mel Ott
Mel Ott has 511 career home runs.
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