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Howard steps out into the parking lot now, waves to the cheering crowd, walks to the screen to sign autographs. "Thanks for a pennant, Ellie," a girl shouts. A drunk asks, "We'll do it next year, won't we, Ellie...
Remember the last game, against Minnesola-the whole permant race down to a single game. Remember Lonborg mowing down those Twins sluggers for his 22nd win? Remember huddling around transistors tuned to Detroit and rooting for an Angel victory? Remember Kenmore Square after the pennant was finally ours...
Across the street is the Pennant Grille. When the Sox clinched the pennant two Sundays ago, the Grille broke loose in a wild brawl that brought half a dozen mounted police men galloping to the scene. Now the Grille is almost empty--the television off, the jukebox playing a tinny polka. Huge autographed photos of former Red Sox stars line the walls Ted Williams, Pumpsie Green, Johnny Pesky, Dom DiMaggio-but the men at the bar are discussing boxing. "You know goddamn well we're going to be up there again next year," a drunk in a back booth shouts...
There are those who hold that the World Series is one of the most exquisite tortures devised by man. Take two baseball teams, put them through a grueling, 162-game pennant race, then pit them against one another in a short, four-out-of-seven series with the world championship riding on the outcome. No wonder the hapless Los Angeles Dodgers committed six errors in one game last year, three of them by Outfielder Willie Davis. And yet more often than not, all the fierce pressure produces some of the year's best baseball and brightest heroes...
...that anyone expected less. Though few experts picked St. Louis for the pennant at season's start, Manager Red Schoendienst's Cardinals were clearly the class of the league, soaring home with a huge 1(H game lead and the kind of statistics fans like to brag about-a .263 team batting average and five pitchers with wins in double figures. So it was hardly surprising that they went into the series as 3 to 2 series favorites, while Boston was still reeling from one of the most frantic four-team pennant scrambles in American League history. That...