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...Blue Jays are bubbling, but the Expos, division champs in 1981 and on the verge of a pennant for years, are less taken with the standings. "We haven't sparkled," says Oliver, the defending batting champion. "We've been lucky that the rest of the division [Philadelphia, St. Louis, et al.) has been pretty lousy too." Emotionally, neither team reflects its customers. As Stieb says, "Montreal has a lot of French Canadians, hot-blooded and spirited types. Toronto fans are English Americans, a bit more staid." However, he has noticed increased fan enthusiasm in Toronto since the team...
...worrying and the pennant races have begun. Since the Stanley Cup is locked on Long Island, a World Series in Canada would be a bracing kind of justice, although, as Carter says, "You might have to swing at snowballs...
...well Elway could play was a question, but how well he would be paid was not. The baseball "rights" to Elway belonged to the New York Yankees, who belong to George Steinbrenner, a free spender capable of buying a pennant and everything else on the shelf. And he seems loath to pay less than $1 million for anything. In six weeks of minor league baseball last summer, Class A ball in Oneonta, N.Y., Outfielder Elway batted .318. However, since Class A pitchers seldom throw a curve on purpose, there was naturally some uncertainty about whether Elway could ever...
...that the Crimson, currently embroiled in a tough Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League (EIBL) pennant race, should have cared as much as Tufts, which only plays in the GBL. Harvard minds were on Saturday's doubleheader with Dartmouth, games crucial to the squad's EIBL prospects and its chances for post-season play. Yesterday's game at Soldiers Field affected neither...
This becomes increasingly clear with the observation that, this year, very few people seem to have caught spring baseball fever. Missing from these sparklingly sunny, balmy days is the early April fantasy of the pennant which all true baseball lovers should have...