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...While crossing the plate after hitting a grand-slam home run, he saluted Finley with an obscene gesture. Finley demanded, and got, a written apology; but the incident plunged Jackson into a foul mood-to say nothing of a slump that ended the team's chances for a pennant that year. Today the two have, at best, a cool relationship. "I respect Finley for his business knowledge," says Jackson, "and I think he's made some needed innovations in baseball. But unless we have to talk business, I keep clear...
...Oakland Coliseum have been reduced from twelve to four. Players' fan mail goes unanswered because Finley has refused to supply the team with stamps. Now, thanks to an order by Oakland fire officials, Finley will shave his budget even further by discontinuing the Scoreboard fireworks displays. As the pennant race warms up, however, Finley can be counted on to supply his own special brand of fireworks...
Alvin Dark, 52, was not always so ready to turn the other cheek. In a distinguished major league career that spanned 14 years as third baseman and shortstop for six teams, including two seasons as captain of the pennant-winning New York Giants, he was one of the most aggressive players in the game. When he became manager of the San Francisco Giants in 1961 he quickly earned a reputation as a first-class thrower of chairs and pounder of tables...
...years before, Harvard has traditionally fielded a strong baseball club. In addition to taking the last three Eastern titles, the Crimson batmen have captured the pennant three more times in the last fifteen years. But in the twenty years before this, the Harvard baseball team underwent a title drought even though it was in the process of compiling the best composite record of any team in the league...
Last year, one-half of the National League--the Eastern half--was engaged in a war to lose the pennant. As late as August, six teams had a chance to forfeit the flag, and only the Mets failed to take advantage of this option. But this year the situation will be different...