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Sitting next to me during the test of endurance was a member of the Class of '32 by name of H. Wadsworth Billings III, or something to that effect. Garbed in a snappy red blazer, complete with ascot and Harvard pennant, he looked good but was obviously not prepared to successfully survive the biting cold...
...left the stadium, I glanced back over my shoulder to the spot where H. Wadsworth was. A small crowd of spectators had gathered around him, staring at the small pennant which still waved defiantly in the wind. Little did they know of the true story that had brought this man here to freeze on the steps of Soldiers' Field this...
...first game, the A's showed how a club with the second lowest team batting average in the A.L. could win the pennant for a third consecutive year. Oakland got only six hits, but scored on a home run, a suicide squeeze bunt and a throwing error by the Dodgers. Game No. 2 gave the Dodgers a chance to recover, and Los Angeles Rightfielder Joe Ferguson provided the power with a two-run homer. When Finley tried to fight back with Herb Washington, the inexperienced sprinter whom he hired this year as unofficial designated runner, Dodger Relief Ace Mike...
...dolor. But my disinterested effort to view a baseball game as historic certainly avoids the consternation that a partisan fan must confront when his team loses, and it may also be the more honorable attitude for the spectator to maintain in the crush of the pennant race. No justification beyond some stretched definition of civic pride exists for the vehement strain of chauvinism that some people, and I am one, hold for a baseball team. There is something contemptuous about the person who pins his felicity on the fortune of nine men he doesn't even know. And I submit...
...century before products of the sandlots assimilate the Designated Hitter. Such gaudy perversions have me clinging to the Goldberg's Peanut Chews billboard which one adorned the left field wall in extinct Shibe Park's power alley. Still, there is nothing like the day-to-day exhilaration of a pennant race to lend life--whether it is endured in a crusty New England college or not a hot inner-city alley--a sharpness. Furthermore, I will be the first to castigate trivia fiends as obscurantists, conservatives, or reactionary nostalgoids...