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...where in working class neighborhoods up to 80% of the population still lacks private facilities, more than 1,600,000 men and women immerse themselves companionably every evening in the steaming vats of the city's 2,608 sento or public bathhouses. There Suzuki-san discusses the besuboru pennant race, and his wife, behind a flimsy partition (a late 19th century concession to Occidental prudery), catches up on the neighborhood gossip. The kids make the usual deafening racket but, as one sento enthusiast puts it knowingly, "When everybody is naked, camaraderie just naturally follows...
...Cards even if their internal weaknesses didn't. The most serious is the lack of relief pitching, with only Ron Taylor as a candidate for the ElRoy Face role. The Cards unquestionably do have baseball's best infield, but the outfield that held together to bring them the pennant last year has not been proven over a season...
Five years out of the last 15, the National League pennant has been won by one game. If the Dodgers can stay close to the pace, their pitching should decide it in their favor in the important September series. And I hope they remember I said so when they send out the World Series tickets...
Last season the Yankees got great performances from Mickey Mantle (.302, 35 ), Elston Howard (.313), Whitey Word (17-6), and Mel Stottlemyre (9-3), and won the pennant on the next-to-last day of the season. While the White Sox, Orioles, and Indians have gained talent and experience during the past year, the Yanks have just gotten a little older and their joints a little creakier. Howard is . Mantle is 33, and apparently his ailing are still in extremely bad shape. Ford is 26, and needed an arm operation last winter. Stottlemyre was brilliant in last year's stretch...
...their sixth straight pennant, the Yanks must have great performances from this quartet again. And the chances are negligible of their having one youngster and three ageing men, two of them injury-prone, all click together...