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...Kansas City Royals, the World Series has long been a mirage, an oasis of October glory shimmering just out of reach. Three times in the past four seasons, both teams won division titles, only to be turned out into the desert by their cross-league rivals in the pennant playoffs...
...World Series. The Phillies were even more conspicuous failures in the stretch. In 1964 they set an unenviable standard for September swoons, blowing a big lead by winning only four games in the season's final 2½ weeks. The last time the Phillies won a pennant, in 1950, they were wiped out by the Yankees in the World Series in four straight games. Never in their 98 years of baseball had they been world champions...
...City bounded to a runaway lead (20 games on Sept. 1) in the American League West, then dispatched the hated Yankees in three straight games to become the first expansion team to win the American League title. Philadelphia, meanwhile, battled for survival under the twin burdens of an arduous pennant race in the National League East and the most bluntspoken, dictatorial boss since George Patton...
...only thing that stood between the Astros and their first division title in the team's 18 years was Los Angeles. The Dodgers had won the pennant two of the previous three years. This time, though they were devastated by injuries, they swept the climactic three-game series with Houston to end the season with both teams in a dead tie for first, forcing a one-game playoff...
...Philadelphia Phillies managed to spoil the Expos' miracle, however, and earned a shot at erasing their own reputation as a team that always ends up the bridesmaid in the playoffs. The Phillies' new pennant hopes rest with the solid pitching of Steve Carlton, a favorite to win the Cy Young Award for the third time, and the hitting of Manny Trillo, Bake McBride and major league Home Run Leader Mike Schmidt...