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...just as notorious. I give the first round to Charles just for getting Alvin to step into Kangaroo shoes. But the last laugh is on Charles too: even Alvin's presence don't make the A's more than a dark horse to take the Orioles for the pennant...
Alvin made the big time for the Boston Braves at shortstop in 1948, taking the rookie of the year (then for both leagues) with a .322 average. Alvin was tight with second baseman Eddie Stanky and both of them went to the Giants, who took the pennant...
...most memorable fans from the 1964 game were the lovey-dovey couple that sat in front of my father and me. After each Alabama first down, they went into a terrific necking scene that ended just in time for the next. I thought they were glamorous: he carried a pennant and she wore a white carnation with a big red A in the center. And both of them were--to say the least--very involved in football. "This is what it's all about," I would tell myself after each first down...
...potential for classic tests: Superpitchers Tom Seaver of the Mets and Jim Hunter of the A's, superior Shortstops Bud Harrelson and Bert Campaneris, Bullpen Stars Tug McGraw and Rollie Fingers, and, finally, two dramatically different managers and strategies. Yogi Berra had won the National League pennant by patiently waiting for the return of injured regulars and then sticking with one lineup down the stretch. Dick Williams had shuffled his mustachioed A's in and out all season in a blur of gaudy green-and-gold uniforms...
...have they? With last week's pennant playoffs, baseball suddenly recaptured so much suspense and emotion that Ring Lardner could not have written a better script. Winners of the National League's Western Division were the well-muscled Cincinnati Redlegs, with the best record (99 wins, 63 losses) and some of the mightiest hitters in the league. Up against the Big Red Machine stumbled the New York Mets, living proof that baseball is still a game of inches. Two months ago, Manager Yogi Berra was within inches of losing his job again (the New York Yankees dumped...