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Bowie Kuhn, Commissioner of Baseball, must dream about Septembers like this. All too often the coming of crisp evenings means limp competition -pennant races already decided, games being played for the sake of the schedule. Last week, for a change, there were tight races in three of the four major league divisions, providing more drama than any September has seen since baseball expanded...
Adding to the pennant excitement, St. Louis Cardinal Leftfielder Lou Brock was on the verge of shattering one of baseball's most celebrated records: Maury Wills' mark of 104 stolen bases in a single season. Finally, at least half the teams still in contention were there because young, relatively obscure players have suddenly become stars...
...have tumbled into a tail spin. Even 20-game Winner Luis Tiant could not halt a losing streak that dropped the Red Sox into second place late last week. While Boston has been losing, New York and Baltimore have been winning. The surprising Yankees, who have not won a pennant in ten years, sport no Mantles or DiMaggios this year. Some frantic trading eventually paid off, though, and the erratic Bombers began to wring winning performances out of an assortment of new arrivals and old journeymen. Outfielders Elliott Maddox and Lou Piniella have been hitting over .300. Rudy...
...fact that baseball has yet to have a black manager. "I'd probably say yes. Maybe that's what they are afraid of." The team also ruled out his brother Tommie, 34, manager of Atlanta's AA team in Savannah, now in a tight minor league pennant race. Braves General Manager Eddie Robinson said, "It would be unfair to take Tommie out of Savannah at this tune." Hank again cried foul: Were the Braves more worried about the minors' pennant race than Atlanta's managerial situation? And as for Tommie, "I'm sure...
...Reno. Son of an Okie sharecropper, Dean was scouted off a Texas sandlot, and won 18 games in 1932, his first full year with the St. Louis Cardinals. Two years later, his 30 victories along with 19 by his brother Paul ("Daffy"), led the Gashouse Gang to the pennant; the brothers won two games apiece as the Cards took the World Series. Compulsively impish, Dean approached the Boston Braves' bench before one game and announced with characteristic corn-pone bravado: "I ain't pitchin' no curves today, boys." True to his word, he then "fogged over" nothing...