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...Monday, the Cubbies were 8-2 and riding a seven-game winning streak. Monday night, I had this vision: Andre Dawson hitting a homer in the bottom of the ninth against the Mets to clinch the pennant. Then, Mark Grace would homer to defeat the Texas Rangers to win the World Series. Yes, 1989, the year of the Cubbie. Players such as Mitch Webster, Mitch Williams, Paul Kilgus and Shawon Duston would become Cub legends...
...Yankees will win the World Series despite a 45-year-old Opening Day pitcher. The Red Sox will win it all despite 71 years of frustration. The Orioles will take the pennant despite 1001 good reasons why they should be playing AAA ball...
...rejecting Chung's money demands, the network cast a vote for old-fashioned news values. "For $2 million," he says, "you can buy an awful lot of journalistic horsepower." True enough. But in the high-stakes world of TV news, a strong bench doesn't often win a pennant...
...World Series. 1983 was also a controversial year for Philadelphia. Pat Corrales, the manager who started the season with the Phils, didn't end the season with them. He was fired on July 18. Can you name who replaced Corrales and led Philadelphia to a National League pennant...
...realism. In a stunning show of sportsmanship, Garvey's new bride has offered to adopt any children he has pending from two other relationships. Sensing that New York might be lagging in perdition, outfielder Rickey Henderson declared that the Yankees "were too drunk" last year to win the pennant...