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...When R.I. throws a party, we take it old school,” said Young, as he carried a Harvard alumni pennant around the room with a slightly wobbling gait...
...parade honoring the New York Giants' National League pennant win was smaller, but as the first one to celebrate a local New York team it set a precedent. The Yankees got their first parade seven years later, to mark the start of their new season - despite the fact that they had lost the 1960 World Series to Pittsburgh...
...demoted from this position following the death of Emerson College student Victoria Snelgrove, according to the Globe. Snelgrove was killed at a 2004 Red Sox pennant celebration when a pepper pellet fired by a police officer struck...
...blue draws them to a stand promoting a country that could currently do with all the p.r. help it can get: the U.S. "We wanted everything in our stall to look American," says the American Society's vice president Francesca De Feo, seated before a Boston Red Sox pennant and an image of a Thanksgiving Day turkey. Like many of her fellow society members, De Feo majors in American studies, which her department handbook describes as "the integrated and interdisciplinary study of the United States and its culture." Peers tease her for devoting her undergraduate years to a nation that...
...year of scintillating sports theater, the California Angels stood one strike away from clinching the pennant in game five of the 1986 ALCS, now lengthened to a best-of-seven series. But Boston's Dave Henderson hit a stunning two-run home run off Angels reliever Donnie Moore to give Boston a 6-5 lead. The Red Sox won that game, and the next two, to take the pennant. Tragically, Moore never got over that one pitch to Henderson. He committed suicide in 1989. "That home run killed him," said his agent...