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...National Hockey League season gets underway. The exhibition schedule is already half gone, and opening night at Boston Garden and the Coliseum and the Spectrum and Maple Leaf Gardens and Le Forum quick approaches even as George Brett struggles to hit .400 and the Yankees near yet another pennant. It is a cycle as old as life itself...
DETROIT, September 17, 1968--Listen to the golden voice of Tiger announcer Ernie Harwell: "Don Wert singles, Kaline comes in to score, and it's all over.... The Tigers have just won their first pennant since nineteen hundred and forty-five. . . .The Tigers mob Don. . .Just listen to the bedlam here in Tiger Stadium...." That night, they danced in the streets of downtown Detroit...
...Guidry and the New York Yankees shut out the Red Sox, 3-0, yesterday at Yankee Stadium, mathematically eliminating the Sox from the pennant race. The Baltimore Orioles also won yesterday...
...Expos now stand at the top of the heap in the N.L. East, in search of the first Canadian pennant. Picture it: a World Series in the snow, with Bowie Kuhn shivering in the front row. By succeeding in the American pastime, the Expos may force 100 million Americans to do what no international crisis, no war, no referendum has ever done: notice Canada...
...Jarry Park had its moments, too. Rusty Staub--dubbed "Le Grand Orange" by Francophones who adored his carrot-colored hair--provided patient fans with at least a few thrills. Gene Mauch, the greatest manager never to win a pennant, gave the baseball intelligentsia strategic gems to discuss in bistros...