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...years as manager of the Cubs, Durocher has yet to produce a pennant winner. The Cubs' best chance came in 1969 when they led the New York Mets by as much as eight games in the beginning of August only to blow the lead in the stretch in September...
...York's football and baseball fans. Who can forget the little miracle of Coogan's Bluff, when Bobby Thomson's ninth-inning home run in the old Polo Grounds beat the hated Dodgers in a 1951 play-off and won for the baseball Giants an impossible pennant? Or the frigid December day in 1934 when the football Giants, playing on a frozen field, switched from spikes to sneakers at halftime and ran away from the mighty Chicago Bears 30-13, to win their first National Football League championship...
...cure. Bowie Kuhn, who was appointed commissioner of baseball after the 1968 season, conspired to "restore the balance between offense and defense." The strike zone was tightened and the mound lowered. In addition, both leagues added two teams and divided into two divisions, thus doubling the number of possible pennant contenders. The results were dramatic. From the 1968 to 1970 seasons, the total number of home runs hit in both leagues jumped from 1,995 to 3,429, and team batting averages rose from .237 to .253. Attendance, meanwhile, grew from 23,102,745 to a record...
Apart from winning the pennant and driving in runs, the only other thing Willie has to concern himself with these days is that familiar symbol of the affluent athlete: an off-the-diamond business. Before the season, his fried chicken takeout restaurant in Pittsburgh's predominantly black Hill District announced that they would give away free chicken every time Willie hit a home run. As one happy fan explains: "The thinner Sugar Bear gets, the fatter...
...thing is certain: the Angels are riven by bitter dissension, and the team -touted before the season as a pennant contender-is languishing in fourth place in the American League's Western Division. Many of its troubles stem from the strange behavior of Alex Johnson. In 1970 he scored 85 runs for the Angels, drove in 86 and led the league in batting with a .329 average. But even then some of his teammates suspected him of "dogging" it on occasion. Manager Lefty Phillips, who has benched Johnson on four occasions this season for not hustling, says that "last...