Word: pennant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...athletes especially are wary; they keep remembering the so-called jinx that is supposed to hover over the careers of people once they have "made" our cover. One apparent corroboration of the jinx theory occurred in 1964, when Hank Bauer and his Baltimore Orioles seemed to have the pennant sewed up until Hank appeared on TIME. After that, the team lost half its games-and the pennant race. (Although two years later the Orioles won both the pennant and the World Series.) Then there was Leo Durocher, who made the cover as manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers...
...betting with Las Vegas on the American League pennant race, put your money on the Red Sox (with some more on the Twins). A little eleventh grade math has shown that the bookies underestimated both...
There's little better than 1 in 4 chance that there will be any kind of tie. (There's only 1 chance in 43 for a three-way tie.) But the Twins are exactly 50-50 to win the pennant alone on Sunday...
...seventh-place Cleveland Indians ambushed Boston's Pennant Express at Fenway Park yesterday, 6-3. A three-run Indian uprising in the sixth--with homers by Chuck Hinton and Chico Salmon--gave a 6-0 lead to Luis Tiant, who fanned eight in coasting to the victory. Red Sox starter Gary Bell suffered the defeat...
...team in league history has ever wound up in a World Series with a winning percentage that low. There is always a first time. At least that is what Las Vegas odds makers figure. Last week they made the Twins even money favorites to win the American League pennant...