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...extra dough would have been worth it. At one point last week, all that had to happen was for the Philadelphia Phillies to win one game from the Cincinnati Reds and the New York Mets to take one from the St. Louis Cardinals. Then the National League pennant race would end in a three-way tie, and they could play the World Series in mittens and mufflers...
...game lead. That put Cincinnati on top. So what did the Reds do? They went 34 innings without scoring a run. Along came the St. Louis Cardinals, ripping off eight straight victories, edging one-half game into first place. All they had to do to sew up the pennant was sweep a three-game series with the lowly Mets. who had won only 51 games all season. "Glad you're coming back," cracked Cardinal Manager Johnny Keane to Mets Manager Casey Stengel. "We need you." Like a hole in the head. The first time they tried to defend their...
...Louis Cardinals won their first National League Pennant in 18 years yesterday, with an 11-5 win over the New York Mets. The Cardinals will meet the American League champion New York Yankees in the World Series starting Wednesday. The Yankees clinched the American League title Saturday by beating Cleveland...
...Cardinals went into the day tied with Cincinnati for first place, with Philadelphia a game behind. The Reds lost, 10-0, to Philadelphia yesterday, setting the stage for a three-way tie for the pennant had St. Louis lost...
Four games back of New York at week's end, Baltimore had done its best to back out of a pennant. The Phils were doing their best to back in. In first place for 123 out of 156 games so far this season, they were still on top, but barely. The Phils lost eight out of ten games, saw their lead shrink to a half-game over the red-hot (ten victories in their last eleven games) Cincinnati Reds, 1½ over the St. Louis Cardinals. With six more to play, two of them with the Reds and three...