Word: pennants
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...dominance in almost every realm that mattered—money, political power, press—enabled it to exert an almost tyrannical influence on what once had been the nation’s fourth largest city. This supremacy extended to the diamond, where the Yankees and Giants won pennant after pennant. In the Dodgers—a team that embraced Brooklyn’s underdog role and uniquely represented a borough rather than a city—Brooklynites found a metaphor for their municipal existence and rooted like mad for “Dem Bums” to outshine their...
October 7, 1975: Boston Red Sox sweep win the American Leaugue pennant, sweeping the Oakland A’s, the reigning world champion...
STRATEGY REVEALED; of the 1951 pennant-winning NEW YORK GIANTS. The team triumphed over the Brooklyn Dodgers in one of the most mythologized games in baseball history, known for its "shot heard round the world," but the Wall Street Journal reported last week that the Giants probably read the Dodgers' pitching signals by placing in the center-field clubhouse a coach adept at deciphering signals with a telescope...
Last year Harvard entered the national collegiate pennant and earned third place overall. Yale did not enter...
...scout Negro League shortstop Robinson despite an unwritten rule against black players. Sukeforth was also known to Brooklyn fans as the coach who in 1951 sent pitcher Ralph Branca rather than Carl Erskine in to face the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson in the ninth inning of the pennant play-off. On the second pitch, Thomson launched the "shot heard 'round the world," winning the pennant for the Giants...