Word: pennant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midsummer, it was a foregone conclusion that only a major catastrophe could keep the power-laden New York Yankees from their sixth American League pennant in seven years. By last week the Yankees had it made. Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle were both close to breaking Babe Ruth's home-run record; by week's end their combined total broke the two-man record of 107 homers set by Ruth (60) and Gehrig (47) back in 1927. The pitching staff was solid: Whitey Ford was safely on the winning side of his first 20-game season, and Veteran...
...best-read column on the front page of the Detroit Free Press last week bore the byline "Winn Pennant." It spelled out in loving detail the Tigers' chances for winning the American League pennant. On the radio, local disk jockeys spun a cornball ditty called Go You Tigers. All over the city, banners and auto stickers proclaimed the team and its top hitter...
Infected with pennant fever, downtown Detroit hotels were cautiously holding open space for the first week in October; already more than 5,000 World Series ticket requests have poured into the Tigers' front office from faithful fans who have not seen a Tiger pennant in 16 years, have watched their team rattle around in the American League's second division for the past decade. But the best sign that the second-place Tigers themselves are sure that they can beat the hated New York Yankees is their own skillful, self-confident race for the flag...
...somehow extracts pleasure from defeat. Just as Yankee fans expect a winner, Phillie fans have learned to expect a loser. The Phillies seldom let them down. No other major league team has lost 100 games a season so many times (13). No other National League club has won the pennant so rarely (twice). No other ball team begins a season with such little promise and ends it in such profound despair...
...song they wrote to celebrate the Reds' surprising climb to first place in the National League. But last week it was getting there fast. Shopkeepers unearthed yellowed 1940 newspapers and put them on display as a reminder of the last time the Reds won a pennant. Music lovers carried transistor radios to the Cincinnati Zoo's summer opera to hear the score between arias of Verdi's Macbeth. Attendance at Crosley Field was up 24% over last year, headed for a million-season mark as 431,683 went to see the Reds' first 38 home games...