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Will it ever wake up one day and say to itself, "We will not say anything about the Red Sox being a sure lock for the American League East pennant until the last pitch of the last baseball game of the regular sesaon is thrown. We will keep quiet until then...
...city of Boston should realize that when it comes to winning pennant races, the Boston Red Sox are a sure bet as picking this year's Green Bay Packers to reach the Super Bowl...
Douglass Wallop's 1954 novel, The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, reflects that innocent era before AstroTurf, designated hitters and utility infielders with multimillion-dollar contracts. But every middle-aged baseball fan can still appreciate the Faustian temptation at the core of both the novel and the hit Broadway musical it inspired, Damn Yankees. Joe Boyd is a paunchy real estate salesman condemned to root for his hapless hometown team, the now defunct Washington Senators. The devil, who prefers the moniker Applegate, offers to transform Joe into the greatest slugger in the history of the game. Applegate's price...
That's not to say that bringing Baylor back will solve all the Red Sox problems or guarantee them another pennant. But it sure would help...
...baseball team falls out of the EIBL pennant race--surrendering the title to Penn--by finishing 2-2 in weekend games against Columbia and Army...