Word: pennant
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...most of all, you feel the t-shirt bearing Hideki Matsui’s name and number bleeding you underneath your jacket, burning, making you wonder what would happen if you just shed your coat before everyone and reminded them that a pennant does not a World Champion make. That you, of course, a Yankee fan, should know...
...intensely competitive left-hander whose relief-pitching prowess helped the New York Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies capture World Series championships; of brain cancer; in Nashville. A crowd favorite known for his boyish enthusiasm, he coined the Mets' battle cry "You gotta believe!" during the 1973 National League pennant race. After notching 180 saves in a 20-year career, he went on to work as a TV sportscaster and wrote three children's books...
...DIED. FRANK (TUG) MCGRAW, 59, exuberant baseball relief pitcher whose phrase "Ya gotta believe!" was the rallying cry of the New York Mets' unlikely last-to-first run for the 1973 National League pennant; of brain cancer; in Nashville. McGraw, who was known for on-field antics such as feigning heart palpitations when home-run balls drifted foul, pitched in the World Series for the Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies. Asked how he would spend his bonus from the 1973 Mets pennant, McGraw replied, "Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish whiskey. The other 10 percent...
...generous, often anonymous donations to causes ranging from youth programs to famine relief; of brain cancer; in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. The widow of McDonald's owner Ray Kroc, she took control of baseball's San Diego Padres after his death in 1984 (when they won the National League pennant) and ran the team for six years...
...recycle idiotic canards about the Yankees buying their way into contention, and ignore that Boston is more guilty of that than the Yankees, and you can attack the Yankees heart and pride. when the Yankees win the American League Conference Series to take their 39th Pennant since Harry Frazee sold us the Babe, and go on to win our 27th World Championship since 1918, that’ll more than make up for all the “Yankees suck” chants and Crimson editorials Yankee fans have had to endure...