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...York. But not without a few obstacles, including a sanctimonious baseball commissioner, a girl who throws like Sandy Koufax and the demolition of a housing project to make way for the old stadium, resurrected brick by brick. When installed, the once and future team manages to win the pennant. But not the World Series. Ritz is a skilled and witty novelist, but he realizes that even in fantasy some dreams remain impossible...
...attendance, but for most it was still too early in the strike to attract many fans from the majors. Newspapers filled their sports pages with accounts of memorable games from the past. The Chicago Tribune took fans back to the days when the Cubs were fighting for their last pennant (1945) and the White Sox for theirs (1959). Or else the papers had fun concocting elaborate fantasies. The San Francisco Examiner invented a staff writer named "Grant Wheat" (tip of the cap there to the late Grantland Rice) who proclaimed the strike settled on Tuesday and then proceeded to march...
Baseball's bridesmaids open the season with pennant dreams...
Such concerns were far from the minds of fans last week, for spring and baseball mean but one thing: hope. Hopes were highest, the dreams most poignant in the cities that finished second in 1980. There, stirring pennant races had ended in disappointment and the inevitable promise to wait 'til next year. A look at the bridesmaid teams and their prospects...
...Star Rightfielder Reggie Smith is recovering slowly from shoulder surgery, but the rest of the Dodgers M*A*S*H unit mended over the winter. The core of the team remains from the pennant-winning clubs of 1977 and 1978, and despite a splendid performance by reserve players in 1980, Los Angeles needs its regulars to win in the West...