Word: pennant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Yankees win pennants because they generally scare everyone to death. But if the Baltimore Orioles should win the 1964 American League pennant, it will undoubtedly be because they are scared to death themselves...
That last victory put the Yankees in first place for the first time all season, and off they went to Baltimore, their new image in dire jeopardy. Baltimore Manager Hank Bauer had predicted that New York would win the pennant, said that his Orioles could not possibly finish better than third. But in the first game, trailing 7-2 with two out in the eighth inning, the Orioles were treated to seven hits and seven runs by the accommodating Yanks. Final score: Baltimore 9, New York 8. "You can't win 'em all," sighed Berra happily...
...Fire and be damned! That's what I believe," he told a recent visitor. It was an article of his faith, one that he carried like a battle pennant every foot of the way that led from the Presbyterian minister's manse in Newcastle, New Brunswick, where he spent his youth. Conscious of his place in Britain's history, he wrote a dozen reminiscent books as an obligation to posterity, and had two more in progress when he died. "I belong to the past," he had said recently...
...world has gone to pot. There was a time when the very least that a baseball fan could count on was that New York - or Brooklyn, anyway -would win the National League pennant, and the Philadelphia Phillies would wind up shoveling coal in the cellar. The Polo Grounds is a gutted steel skeleton now; Ebbets Field is apartment houses. And last week the Phillies were leading the league...
...dropped a protested game to the Pirates, 6-5, and bounced back to edge the Houston Colts, 7-6. By week's end the suspicion was beginning to dawn on Manager Mauch that the infection just might be incurable. "You know," he said, "we could even win this pennant...