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 | Rookie Reaps Reward This Month Saturday, September 1st , 1962 Takaki Smith's eyes seem to light up whenever he sees the baseball. The young Kobe second baseman has been hitting everything in sight for the better part of a month. In August he was voted the Rookie of the Month. During the month he hit .277 with 1 double, 4 triples and 1 home run. Smith also scored 14 times and drove in 6 runs. This season, Smith is hitting .253 with 38 hits, 1 home run, 10 RBIs, scored 23 runs and played in 41 games. |   |
