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...thousand different ways. Brooklyn ball fans grew up with the Daffiness Boys and their bonehead base running of the '20s. They remember a rooter who turned murderer with rage over a loss to the Giants, a minister praying vainly for victory (1946-the Cardinals won the pennant) on the steps of Borough Hall, Catcher Mickey Owen dropping a third strike and losing a championship. With the inevitability of Greek tragedy, the beloved Bums were often contenders, sometimes won pennants and never won a World Series...
...midwinter, and Martin Whitford Marion, manager of the Chicago White Sox, was already lost in a bright dream of spring. His team, he announced with admirable brevity, was going to win the American League pennant. Sportswriters snickered. It would be a close race all right. Maybe the Sox would finish third-after the Yanks and the Indians...
WHEN Dallas Bureau Chief Frank McCulloch was a bush-league pitcher before World War II, he often daydreamed of sitting on the St. Louis Cardinals' bench and hearing the manager say: "Frank, we need this one for the pennant...
...Horace Stoneham, on the spot, to issue two flat denials: 1) Giant Manager Leo ("the Lip") Durocher has no intention of quitting, nor will he be fired; 2) the Giants will not leave New York. The Giants, however, did leave fading (34) Outfielder Monte Irvin, key man on the pennant-winning club in 1951, down on the farm...
Next Saturday's traditional league finale against Yale, usually a game which decides nothing but prestige, has assumed decisive importance, as the Crimson and Eli baseball teams each enter the stretch of the pennant race undefeated...