Word: pennant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stan Musial, the St. Louis Cardinals' star right fielder who plans to retire this year, will throw out the first ball in tomorrow's World Series opener at Yankee stadium. The American League pennant winners wired Stan the Man the invitation as soon as St. Louis was mathematically eliminated from the National League title...
Smokey Alston smiling? The Dodgers winning? It was only yesterday that the collapsible Dodgers blew a four-game lead in the final week and presented the 1962 National League pennant to the San Francisco Giants. And it seemed only the day before that Bobby Thomson of the Giants deposited a dinky drive into the leftfield seats at the Polo Grounds to beat the Dodgers in a playoff for the 1951 pennant. Now the stage was set for another whirlwind finish that would leave the Dodgers flat on their backs, muttering dazedly: "Wait till next year...
...only issue in the American League was when the New York Yankees would clinch their 28th pennant. Last week they made it official, and by virtue of a 14-game lead, the end came earlier than in any season since 1941. Hardly an eyelid flickered. But, ah, the National League. There it was, all balled up in that perennially fascinating last-minute scramble for the pennant...
...usual, the Los Angeles Dodgers were ahead and fighting for their lives. But this year there were few signs of the panic-stricken collapse that cost them the pennant in 1962. Since Labor Day, the Dodgers have been playing .715 baseball. The excitement came from the St. Louis Cardinals, who last won a pennant in 1946, and in recent years have been a pale shadow of the great Gashouse Gang of the '30s. The experts picked Manager Johnny Keane's Cards for fifth place. But now, ready for a fateful three-game series with the Dodgers this week...
...auto races, chip in to buy a boat and take the kids sailing or fishing. The expansion to ten-team leagues gave attendance a hypo. But the boosters can hardly be expected to stay all steamed up when their heroes are glued in the cellar and the pennant races settle into that familiar groove. Last week the Yankees led the American League by 5½games, and the Dodgers were on top of the National League...