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...been a long time. Longer, in fact, than most of us have been alive. But today we aren't thinking about those twenty-one dry years. For the Sox are back on top. They are the American League pennant winners--the gustiest, most resilient champs in a long time...
...Chicago White Sox bobbled away their American League pennant chances with two first inning errors that handed Washington a 1-0 victory...
...athletes especially are wary; they keep remembering the so-called jinx that is supposed to hover over the careers of people once they have "made" our cover. One apparent corroboration of the jinx theory occurred in 1964, when Hank Bauer and his Baltimore Orioles seemed to have the pennant sewed up until Hank appeared on TIME. After that, the team lost half its games-and the pennant race. (Although two years later the Orioles won both the pennant and the World Series.) Then there was Leo Durocher, who made the cover as manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers...
...betting with Las Vegas on the American League pennant race, put your money on the Red Sox (with some more on the Twins). A little eleventh grade math has shown that the bookies underestimated both...
There's little better than 1 in 4 chance that there will be any kind of tie. (There's only 1 chance in 43 for a three-way tie.) But the Twins are exactly 50-50 to win the pennant alone on Sunday...