Word: pennant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when the Cincinnati Reds won the National League pennant, Outfielder Frank Robinson was such a bright young star (37 home runs, 124 runs batted in, .323 average), that baseball writers voted him the league's Most Valuable Player. Four years later, Frank was still swinging respectably, batting .296, but the Reds decided that he was getting old and traded him all the way over into the American League. Too bad for the Reds. Last season Frank won the league's batting triple crown with 49 homers, 122 RBls, a .316 average, and led Baltimore to its first American...
...example of the San Francisco Giants' Juan Marichal, who had a bit of bad luck after appearing on our cover (June 10). But he finished the season as one of the two best pitchers in the league. What about Hank Bauer? His Baltimore Orioles seemed to have the pennant locked up, until the Sept. 11, 1964 cover, after which they lost half their games. Jinxed by TIME? "I don't believe in that stuff," growls Bauer. He was named Manager of the Year in 1964, and his team proved unjinxable earlier this month when it walked off with...
...Pleiku with the bill of rights that they had long sought. Already, he had met one of Fulro's demands by setting up a special commission for Montagnard affairs, named a Montagnard to head it. He promised to return tribal lands to Montagnard control, create a special Montagnard pennant to be flown alongside the national flag, and set up an elite highland military force under Montagnard command. Nine Montagnard representatives now sit in Saigon's Constitutional Assembly, and tribal languages are again being taught in highland schools. More than 500 scholarships have been granted to Montagnards; two students...
...your sport story on the pennant race [Oct. 7] you say that the very fine and most deserving young man, Mr. Larry Jaster of St. Louis, "set a major league record" by shutting out the Los Angeles Dodgers five times in a row. Seems to me you should do a little research when you make such statements. He only tied the record set by Grover Cleveland Alexander against the Cincinnati Reds in 1916. I believe Larry is a left-hander-Alex was, of course, a righthanded, sidearm pitcher...
...League record by winning 27 games during the regular season-the most by any lefthander since 1900, and Don Drysdale (salary: $115,000), the burly righthander who recovered from a dismal start to win four out of his last five starts as the Dodgers swept to the National League pennant. The Dodgers also had 17-game Winner Claude Osteen, and a bullpen staff headed by Phil ("The Vulture") Regan, whose 1966 performance was nothing short of fantastic: 14 victories, only one loss, and an earned-run average (1.62) even lower than Sandy Koufax...