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This just had to be the loosest team in baseball. There they were, smack in the middle of one of the tightest pennant races in National League history, leading the league by 1½ games with four games still to play. Up in San Francisco, the second-place Giants had already beaten the Cincinnati Reds 5-3. In 15 minutes, the Dodgers were due on the field to take on the tough Milwaukee Braves. And what were they doing? Sitting around...
When I picked the Dodgers to win the National League pennant last spring, I take it you all went out and bet heavily on them. So you'll no doubt be chagrined to hear that that bum O'Malley hasn't seen fit to recognize my loyality by sending me World Series press credentials. I'm deeply hurt...
...What do you want me to do - cry?" snarled San Francisco Manager Herman Franks. Days before, Franks's Giants seemed to have the National League pennant all wrapped up. They had won 14 games in a row, 17 out of their last 18, and they beat the Cincinnati Reds 4-0 in the opener of a three-game series. Then - trouble...
...Johnny Keane: his second one-year contract (for 1966) as manager of the American League's New York Yankees, at an estimated salary of $50,000. Keane was hired by the Yankees to replace Yogi Berra, who won the 1964 pennant but was fired after he lost the World Series to Keane's St. Louis Cardinals. Now Keane has led the once-proud Yankees to their worst showing in 30 years. When he signed last week the Yankees were firmly ensconced in sixth place, 20½ games behind the Minnesota Twins...
...RBIs), was limping around on an injured knee. But the fifth-place Pirates had won ten out of their last 13 games-including four from the Giants, three from the Braves and two from the Dodgers. Insisted Walker: "With any kind of break, we'll win the pennant." Well, they might at that-since everybody else seems to be trying to lose...