Word: pennant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every Spring the American, League goes through an uneasy period when it appears that the Yankees might not win the pennant. Despite protestations to the contrary, the League finds the thought profoundly upsetting; it implies a disruption of the established order...
Nonetheless, with the passion of the lost cause leader or the glee of a little boy who knows he is doing something wrong, sportswriters are again writing, their traditional Spring obituaries for the Yankees. The failure of the New Yorkers to have clinched the pennant already is being explained by the traditional, idealistic theory that the League is stronger and the Yanks too old or too lame...
...twin victories over the pennant-contending service teams gives the Crimson a commanding position for the remainder of the race. Dartmouth is the only team left to play which has demonstrated consistent excellence, and a dose of the Crimson's Paul Del Rossi could prove fatal to the Green's chances...
...Kansas City Athletics have trouble hitting a ball out of the infield, let alone over a fence. Owner Charles Finley's solution was to bring the mountain to Mohammed. He built a plywood fence in rightfield, only 296 ft. from home plate, christened the project his "Pennant Porch." Unh-unh, said Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick, so Finley moved the whole contraption back 29 ft. and renamed it a "One-Half Pennant Porch...
Died. Eddie Dyer, 63, manager of last St. Louis Cardinals team to win a pennant (1946), discoverer of Stan ("the Man") Musial in 1938; of gallbladder complications; in Houston...