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...starting pitcher in the American League-and he leads the league in shutouts with five. Last week the Angels were in fifth place, only six games behind the Chicago White Sox, and Manager Bill Rigney was hollering at his players in the locker room: "Let's win the pennant." Jim McGlothlin was packing his glove and spikes. He had to pitch in the All-Star game...
Maybe he does. Anybody who can take a team that doesn't have a single batter hitting over .280 and turn it into a pennant contender is bound to be a personality of some sort...
...Tight pennant races are nothing new in the National League, but American League fans for years have had to make do with sessions that effectively ended in June or July. Not this year. At one time or another since the season began, every team except two (Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins) has led the league or at least shared the lead. The farthest anybody has been in front is two games, and the spread between the first-place Detroit Tigers and eighth place last week was only seven games. Even the New York Yankees, who finished dead last in 1966, were...
...strongest - or at least the most interesting - argument may belong to Detroit. They have the league's No. 1 hitter in Al Kaline (.349); better still, after 21 years without a pennant, they are finally behaving like Tigers instead of tabbies. Beaming with approval as his players fought a donnybrook with the Kansas City Athletics, Detroit Manager Mayo Smith announced: "This ball club is playing as a team, and I think that is well demonstrated by the fact that we have been in three altercations in eight days...
...average, but he was not even elected to the league's All-Star team. In 1966 he hit -.317, clouted 29 homers, drove in 119 runs, and beat out Los Angeles Dodgers' Pitcher Sandy Koufax for the Most Valuable Player award - but his team blew the pennant to the Dodgers in the last week of the season. All told, Clemente has three batting titles to his credit-but nobody has ever asked him to do a shaving-cream commercial. Last week was merely typical. There was Roberto leading the league in batting (at .395) in RBls (with...