Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the National League race, won 98 games while losing only 44, and clinched the pennant with twelve still to play. Reading the statistics, wiseacres made the Dodgers favorites to beat the American League's New York Yankees in the Series and win their first World's Championship...
Casey Stengel, going after his fifth consecutive World's Championship, is making no predictions. But neither he nor his team is conceding the Dodgers anything, and the Yankees have a habit of winning the big ones. Says Stengel: "I'm sick of hearing how great those Dodgers are and what they'll do to us in the World Series. We may fool a few people...
...Naples, Lieut. Commander Agostino Straulino of the Italian navy won the world's sailing championship in the Star (22 ft. 8½ in.) class for the second year in a row. Runner-up, in a race that drew 38 entries from 16 countries including the U.S.: Duarte Bello of Portugal. The highest final standing of any of the visiting Americans: eleventh...
...Ohio, the high-powered rifle events of the National Rifle and Pistol Matches (TIME, Sept. 7) were won by two U.S. marines. With 435 points out of a possible 450, Master Sergeant Maxim R. Beebe took the service-rifle title. Staff Sergeant Don L. Smith won the sporting-rifle championship with...
...Chicago, Hasty House Farms' bay colt Hasty Road all but cinched the 1953 earning championship for two-year-olds by taking the $99,645 winner's share of the Washington Park Futurity. Hasty Road's earnings in five races...