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...farm to brood. Six years later, he decided to try to sweep the slate clean with a declaration that he and other White Sox players had paid Ty Cobb's Detroit Tigers to "slough off a Labor Day series that allowed Chicago to clinch the 1917 American League pennant...
...most of all it will be The Game which will pull me through February. That incredible game. And I'll sit back with my Bosox cap on firmly and my 1967 "The Pennant Is Ours" beer mug frothing and begin the slide show...
...many people, in fact, have refused to take their socks off since Boston clinched the pennant that Maytag is currently considering a reduction in the production of its washing machines...
...ballpark early (10 a.m.), before the gates were even open. Between the Kenmore subway stop and the bleacher gates, Sam, a friend of mine who had come all the way from South Carolina to watch the game, had already bought two Red Sox hats, a pennant, a bumper sticker, a coke and a Fenway frank. He was also appropriately dressed in a Bosox red sweater and navy blue pants. He did withstand the temptation to get the other items being sold, which ranged from buttons with a picture of the gold dust twins (Lynn and Rice) to a World Series...
Until 1935 baseball remained an afternoon pastime; then MacPhail flooded Cincinnati's Crosley Field with banks of lights and gave a new dimension to the game. With his indomitable optimism he bailed clubs out of hock and transformed cellar teams into pennant winners: the Cincinnati Reds, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Yankees. Off the diamond, MacPhail put his improbable imagination to work in the practice of law, managing a department store, as a banker, a football referee, a church organist and a breeder of thoroughbred horses. As an artillery captain following the Armistice of World War I, he persuaded...