Word: pennant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anybody Win? It was still a little early last week for a pennant party in the National League. First, somebody had to win the pennant-and the contenders all seemed to be doing their best to lose. The San Francisco Giants committed 23 errors in 13 games. The Pittsburgh Pirates' problem was erratic pitching: Woody Fryman allowed only four hits when he beat the Giants 3-1; but against the Atlanta Braves, he gave up six runs in four innings. The Los Angeles Dodgers had all they could do just to show up for a game. In addition...
...Baltimore Orioles had just beaten the Kansas City Athletics 6-1 to clinch the American League pennant-Baltimore's first in 69 years-and the Birds were flying. The delirious Orioles poured magnums of champagne over each other's heads; beer cans, pickles, jars of mustard and cartons of milk sailed through the dressing room. Club Owner Jerry Hoffberger was heaved bodily into the shower. He staggered out soaking wet, grabbed a telephone, and placed a person-to-person call to a Mr. William O. DeWitt in Cincinnati. "Mr. DeWitt?" crooned Hoffberger. "I just want to tell...
...four months since, he has not performed the impossible, but he has performed the improbable. He has taken the Yankees from twelve games out of first place to 27½ games out of first place. Last week the Yanks lost four straight to the pennant-bound Baltimore Orioles, thereby 1) dropping into the American League cellar and 2) mathematically eliminating themselves from the 1966 pennant race. Not since 1925, when Babe Ruth hit only 25 home runs and got fined $5,000 by Manager Miller Huggins for breaking training, had the proud Yankees, winners of 20 world championships, been eliminated...
...been playing for three months with a torn leg muscle so painful that he cannot run out the infield grounders he now hits so consistently. Still, Yankee teams have been hard hit before: the 1949 club, for example, survived a succession of 71 separate injuries and won a pennant for Manager Casey Stengel-the first of ten he collected in his twelve years with the Yanks...
...Spanish"). Outfielder Oliva hit 32 home runs and batted .323-thus becoming the first rookie ever to win the American League's batting championship. Last year, playing with a bad knee and a painfully bruised hand, he drove in 98 runs, led the Twins to the American League pennant and won his second straight batting title with an average of .321. Last week the Twins were going nowhere. Trailing the Baltimore Orioles by 15 games, they were having trouble just staying in the first division. Oliva once again was leading the league. Bouncing out of a brief slump...