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...That team fed off of them," baseball announcer Marty Brennaman said of the Braves fans, who drew almost as much attention as the team during Atlanta's stretch drive to the NL West title...
When the football season began, few, if any, predicted much from the Princeton Tigers. The Tigers were given about as much chance of winning the Ivy Crown as, say, the Atlanta Braves were of winning the NL West...
...week, the Giants have been looking forward to doing it again to the Dodgers. They beat them in 1951 on Bobby Thomson's home run in the playoffs, knocked them out again in a three-game playoff in 1962 and denied them an NL West title in 1982 when Joe Morgan homered on the last day--at Candlestick--to give the Braves the championship...
...goes that far, it might not be such good news for Los Angeles. There have been five playoffs in NL history, and the Dodgers have been involved in every one. They've lost four times...
...same thing in 1962, when they lost to San Francisco in a best-of-three, and in 1980--the only time an NL division was tied at the end--Houston won a one-game playoff in Los Angeles...