Word: pennant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Mickey Mantle returned to his home in Dallas a month ago to recuperate from a fractured foot injury, the big question in the American League was whether or not the Baltimore Orioles could fly high and fast enough to escape with the pennant before the hobbled Yankees recovered. They didn...
...have a chance to see one of the finest Crimson teams in recent years. But the Crimson has acted in peculiar fashion this season. After winning its first six games, it booted one to Penn, was handcuffed by Columbia and Brown, and quickly dropped out of the Eastern League pennant picture...
There is a predictable pattern to the way the New York Yankees win the American League pennant every year. For the first two months or so they hobble along, beset by injuries and slumps, while other teams battle for the lead. Then about the middle of the year they pull themselves together, push the other clubs aside, and take over first place on a permanent basis...
...there the Yankees are, lurking just a game away from the league leaders, ready to reach up and take over first place as soon as the rest of the team begins hitting. The picture is sadly reminiscent of the pennant race last year, and the year before that, and the one before that, Et cetera...
...there has been a surprise in this year's race, it has been the miserable showings of the teams that were supposed to challenge the Yankees for the pennant. The Minnesota Twins, whose good hitters were supposed to make up for their suspect pitchers, have been more consistent; both batters and pitchers have been wretched, and the Twins are as high as eighth place only by grace of three recent wins over the slumping Red Sox. Bob Allison is hitting, but the rest of the team is not, and the Twins show few signs of ever becoming challengers...