Word: outruns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pennants are never won on paper, and for the past two seasons the Sox have been nosed out of the race on the last day. This year, as last, the Yankees may well outrun them, but no expert would care to guarantee the outcome of the 1950 race. As the Yankees' manager, wily old Casey Stengel, puts it, "We'll all be knocking our heads together this year . . . Detroit is much better. Cleveland will be a lot tougher, and so will Connie's Athletics." (The A's are out to win one more pennant...
Come Out? An hour and a half later, the bloodhounds set up a great bass clamor outside a potato shack on the farm of ex-Moonshiner Turner's father. Hogjaw, who likes to boast that he can outrun a horse, was right with the dogs, but the main body of cops all saw fit to maintain a respectful distance and await eventualities. Hogjaw pulled his gun, fired six shots into the shack and bravely bawled: "Come out, you sons of bitches...