Word: pennant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eestatie Mets fans completely covered the playing field of Shea Stadium after the game and remained for a long and loud celebration, reminiscent of Boston's response to the Red Sox Impossible Dream pennant...
...victories at Shea Stadium by scores of 5-3 and 6-1 enabled the Mets to increase their lead over the Cubs to 41/2 games. Meanwhile, in Chicago, the Cubs eliminated St. Louis from the pennant race by downing the Cardinals, 4-3. The Pirates were also eliminated after yesterday's games...
...eleven in a row, the longest winning streak in their history. They slumped briefly in midsummer, but they have since rallied to win twelve of 13 games. As the season turns the Labor Day corner and heads into the stretch, the Mets are serious contenders for the National League pennant. Last week they were only 2½ games behind the faltering Chicago Cubs, the leaders of the league's Eastern Division.* Like the fabled little engine that could, they are pulling mightily, and they really believe they can make it. Whether they do or not, the very possibility that they might...
...against the Kansas City Athletics and winning a permanent place in the starting rotation. But then he became one of those supposedly sure bets that never quite pays off. Until last year, he had only one good season (13-6); that was 1966, the year the Orioles won the pennant and took the World Series in four straight. In 1967, he tore a tendon and developed something of a paunch, finished the year with a disappointing 7-7 record. Before the start of the 1968 season, however, he underwent some strenuous arm therapy to stretch the tendon, lost...
...most perfect ending to a perfect season. It was the Red Sox winning the pennant, or the New Hampshire primary. It was a victory of the unknowns. Sophomore Bill Kelly, a reserve defensive back, and ends Pete Varney and Bruce Freeman became over-night heroes. And for Frank Champi, the moon-faced second string quarterback, it was a dream--not the dream he says he had the night before--but the dream he lived on the field...