Word: pennant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...segregationist, but, to use an analogy, I like to see a team that's sure to win the pennant lose at least one ball game...
...insomniac in Manhattan who gave up Seconal for the Yankees. But sloppy baseball can be fun to watch-as it was last week, when the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers fumbled and bumbled their way through a wacky three-game playoff for the National League pennant. All it proved was that while the club owners could take the boys away from Coogan's Bluff and Flatbush, they could never take the old ways away from the boys. And while the transplanted Bums and Jints staged their comedy of errors. 20 million TV fans sat transfixed with...
...Blase. To the imperious New York Yankees the only difference between their two potential series opponents was the 25,000-seat cushion of the Dodgers' Chavez Ravine over the Giants' Candlestick Park. Celebrating their own pennant, the 27th in 41 years, the Yanks were the image of champagne-sipping nonchalance. "Why should I be excited," sniffed Roger Maris, taking the series in his usual stride. "It's something we expected all along." But the Yankees do not have quite that much to be blasé about. If Maris was last year's home-run terror...
...record in eight World Series of nine wins and four losses, Whitey could be counted on not to get flustered no matter whom he faced-the Dodgers and Maury Wills or the Giants and Willie Mays. But the Yanks hardly rated as long-odds favorites. In a drab pennant race that saw a perennial loser (the Washington Senators, now Minnesota Twins) come in second, and a baby in the league (the Los Angeles Angels) take third, they could not even win 100 ball games, while both the Giants and the Dodgers reached the century mark against tougher competition...
...after the Giants had clinched the pennant, they faced a young Dodger lefty named Karl Spooner. He fanned 15, and before fading into obscurity the next spring, he excited a winter slogan in Flatbush: "Now we got Spooner sooner...