Word: pennants
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...pennant victory was like the opening of a sluice gate. Suddenly, anyone who had ever had even the most remote contact with the team had something to say, and any newspaper that wanted to sell had to give him room...
Logic says that the Boston Red Sox should not be pennant contenders. History says that no team whose pitching staff is built around guys named Waslewski, Brandon and Stange should be anywhere but tenth place. Propriety says that Proper Bostonians should not go beserk 30,000 at a time. But a trip to Fenway Park and a glance at the major-league standings shows that the improbable is happening--and the impossible may just be around the corner...
...practically an annual baseball phenomenon that some hopeless team makes an abortive springtime run at first place, sends its fans into a frenzy, and then collapses utterly under its built-in shortcomings and the pressures of the pennant race. But there's something very different about the Red Sox, who finished a half-game out of last place last year and were rated 50-to-1 shots by the Las Vegas sporting gentlemen this spring. The Red Sox are for real...
...divided into two parts: New England and elsewhere. Because the Red Sox are the lone baseball team to inhabit this hallowed ground, it has been assumed by local fans that they must be perfect, and that only the cruel workings of fate could prevent them from winning the pennant. Fate has been awfully cruel for the last 20 years...
Then the Tigers scored twice and a brawl broke out in the Pennant Grille across from Fenway Park. Two patrol wagons arrived as the crowd retreated to restaurants and store fronts to await the final inning. Then Tiger Dick McAuliffe grounded into a game-ending double play and pandemonium...