Word: jansenism
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...pennant in a postseason playoff. The Giants, rated as red-hot contenders in spring training, had bumbled into an eleven-game losing streak at the beginning of the season, could never seem to get going again. But in mid-August, behind the standout pitching of Sal Maglie and Larry Jansen, they had started to move, and won a phenomenal 37 of their last 44 games. With the pressure on, the Dodgers dropped five of their last eight games. Now they needed to beat the Phillies, even to stay in the race...
...shame," the baseball coach went on, "that the National League has a three-game playoff, instead of only one. It's very disastrous to the pitchers just before the Series. Brooklyn's pitching staff is all worn out; and what if Jansen had to relieve Maglie for the Giants tomorrow? It takes the edge off the World Series...
...York (Jansen) 10, Philadelphia...
...around by plane from game to game. Meanwhile, as Western fans see it, the Pacific Coast cities are permanently condemned to second-grade baseball, played mainly by greenhorns and has-beens, while the big league teams in the East drain off such stars as Joe and Dom DiMaggio, Larry Jansen, Gene Woodling and Ferris Fain as fast as they come up. The draft has a double effect: a club lucky enough to develop two or three standout players in a season must usually sell them all to the highest bidders rather than risk losing one of them...
Then, with Maglie and Jansen matching Newcombe and Roe, and with Thomson and Mays hitting homers, perhaps the Giants would then be able to stay ahead of the Dodgers...