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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 franzy, 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...
...Mellow. No team in modern baseball history has ever finished last one year and won a pennant the next. But there has never been a manage like Leo Durocher, either. Gourmet gambler, clotheshorse, man about Hollywood, Durocher was one of baseball's most controversial characters when he managed the Brooklyn Dodgers anc New York Giants to three pennants in the 1940s and 1950s. "Nice guys finish last," was his famous motto. He was sued by a fan who claimed Leo had broken his jaw, and he was suspended for the entire 1947 season by Commissioner A. B. Chandler...
...city where the Red Sox now make the headlines over the Detroit riots, where politicians invoke the ball club's name in attacks on the governor, and where even arty types are catching pennant fever, the biggest crowd of the season (34,193) gushed with emotion that has been unknown in Fenway Park since Ted Williams led the team to the Series...