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Later in the week, someone at NBC would get the bright idea of splicing highlights of Gibson's final at-bat with film clips from the end of The Natural, when Robert Redford homered into the light standard to win the pennant...
With the intense pressure and amazingly high expectations (if it's not a World Series ring, it's a failed season), Boston tends to display violent mood swings with very little provocation. A four-game winning streak? Gonna challenge for the pennant. Two losses in a row? Fire the manager. Six losses in a row? The season's over--trade everybody for good young talent...
...around the All-Star break in July, the Sox put together a long winning streak and climbed back into first place. Lo and behold--pennant fever all over again. People started talking 1986. And in the most amazing reversal of all, Hobson got a two-year contract extension...
...this bad? Why shouldn't both the Atlanta Braves and San Francisco Giants make the playoffs; they're both great teams. Here's one reason: If they did, none of us would have cared about the National League West pennant race over the last few weeks...
Baseball, as it is, will always hold a special place in the hearts of American sports fans. It may be that a midseason game doesn't get higher ratings than the Simpsons on a given Thursday night, but come September, the fans prefer a pennant race game to anything Bart...