Word: pennant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first half of the season, the American League pennant race seemed as unpredictable as a frog-jumping contest. In the first three months, four teams swapped the lead−Cleveland, Minnesota, New York, even the improbable Los Angeles Angels (TIME, July 13). At one point last month, only 3½ games separated the first seven teams. But by last week, the league had settled down to a scramble for second place. On top of the pack once again were the perennial champion New York Yankees. They were just a little overdue...
...Pitchers Whitey Ford and Luis Arroyo had won 40 games in 1961. Roger Maris had clouted 61 homers; Mickey Mantle had hit 54; Catcher Elston Howard had batted .348. The slick-fielding Yankee infield was the best in baseball. The Yankees seemed a sure shot to win their twelfth pennant in 14 years...
...Fourth of July, Independence Day, the hallowed day on which baseball's league leaders traditionally become favorites to win the pennant,* and Angelenos could scarcely contain their pride. In Washington, D.C., the American League's Los Angeles Angels swept a doubleheader from the Senators and edged a half game past the New York Yankees into first place. In Chavez Ravine, the National League's Los Angeles Dodgers swept a doubleheader from the Philadelphia Phillies, clung tenaciously to a half-game lead over the second-place San Francisco Giants. Not since 1956, when the Yankees...
Hitting .300 last week, Willie already had 19 home runs to lead both leagues. But in past seasons not even Mays could bring the Giants a pennant. This year the Latins hope to provide the much needed strength in depth...
...biggest fools in the circle of American League commentators this year are clearly the guy--namely myself--who picked Detroit for the pennant and Lock magazine's Tom Meany, who predicted that the Boston Red Sox would finish second...