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...year case of autism or you're from some foreign country where they don't play it, then take a short stroll over to Lamont and peruse the Sports Illustrated How-to book of Football. No one's asking you to wear a raccoon coat or wave a pennant or anything for crissake. Just go. You'll thank me later...
Graig Nettles delivered the New York Yankees to the World Series in a suitably Yankee way. When he was through batting out the Oakland A's in three straight play-off games for the American League pennant, the third baseman scuffled with Teammate Reggie Jackson for good measure...
...ninth home run by veteran rightfielder Rick Monday broke a 1-1 deadlock, giving the Los Angeles Dodgers a 2-1 victory over the Montreal Expos and the National League pennant yesterday afternoon in wintery Montreal...
...Cincinnati Reds won more games and lost fewer than any team in the major leagues this season. But all it got them was the homemade pennant pictured above and the feeling that this has been anything but a banner year for baseball. As the play-offs got under way last week, the Reds (record: 66-42) were at home watching the likes of the Kansas City Royals (record: 50-53) play on national television. "I'm disappointed," said Reds President Dick Wagner, "that baseball put marketing and merchandising ahead of tradition." Baltimore Orioles Owner Edward Bennett Williams, whose team...
DIED. Fred Lindstrom, 75, baseball Hall of Fame member who broke in with the pennant-winning 1924 New York Giants at 18, becoming the youngest player ever to appear in the World Series, and racked up a career batting average of .311 in 13 seasons (his best year: 1930, when he hit a torrid .379); after a long illness; in Chicago. After retiring as a player, Lindstrom spent 13 years as baseball coach at Northwestern University...