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Never before in recent history has a team which hasn't won the pennant in seven years been as safe a bet to lead the National League as the Pittsburgh Pirates are in 1967. And seldom has it been so socially acceptable to root for such an overwhelming favorite. The Buccaneers play the majors' most exciting brand of ball, typified by MVP Roberto Clemente. The flashy Puerto Rican makes every catch in right field look tough, consistently throws behind baserunners, even to first, changes bats if a pitcher gets two strikes on him, and wins a couple of games...
Died. John Joseph Keane, 55, baseball manager, the cool, unassuming tactician, who in 1964, after three futile years as field boss of the St. Louis Cardinals, was about to be fired, thereupon performed a minor miracle by leading his Redbirds to a National League pennant and a World Series victory over the American League's New York Yankees, after which the losers gleefully hired him away at $45,000 per, a triumph of justice that swiftly turned to dust when the disintegrating Yanks finished sixth in 1965, plummeted to last at the start of 1966 and the New York...
...when the Cincinnati Reds won the National League pennant, Outfielder Frank Robinson was such a bright young star (37 home runs, 124 runs batted in, .323 average), that baseball writers voted him the league's Most Valuable Player. Four years later, Frank was still swinging respectably, batting .296, but the Reds decided that he was getting old and traded him all the way over into the American League. Too bad for the Reds. Last season Frank won the league's batting triple crown with 49 homers, 122 RBls, a .316 average, and led Baltimore to its first American...
...example of the San Francisco Giants' Juan Marichal, who had a bit of bad luck after appearing on our cover (June 10). But he finished the season as one of the two best pitchers in the league. What about Hank Bauer? His Baltimore Orioles seemed to have the pennant locked up, until the Sept. 11, 1964 cover, after which they lost half their games. Jinxed by TIME? "I don't believe in that stuff," growls Bauer. He was named Manager of the Year in 1964, and his team proved unjinxable earlier this month when it walked off with...
...Pleiku with the bill of rights that they had long sought. Already, he had met one of Fulro's demands by setting up a special commission for Montagnard affairs, named a Montagnard to head it. He promised to return tribal lands to Montagnard control, create a special Montagnard pennant to be flown alongside the national flag, and set up an elite highland military force under Montagnard command. Nine Montagnard representatives now sit in Saigon's Constitutional Assembly, and tribal languages are again being taught in highland schools. More than 500 scholarships have been granted to Montagnards; two students...