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Baseball’s Eyes Are on Aaron Judge

The New York Yankees’ rookie slugger may already be the sport’s biggest star. Will he keep it up?
Source: Brad Penner / Reuters

The Major League Baseball season reaches its unofficial midpoint with Tuesday night’s All-Star game, and the story of the year, so far, is Aaron Judge. As the New York Yankees’ rookie right-fielder, Judge has produced jaw-slackening moments with such regularity that it’s hard to single one out, but a good example came on June 11, when the Yankees hosted the Baltimore Orioles in the Bronx.

The game before, Judge had hit his league-leading 19th home run of the season, and that day he padded his total even further. In the sixth inning,

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