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...your sport story on the pennant race [Oct. 7] you say that the very fine and most deserving young man, Mr. Larry Jaster of St. Louis, "set a major league record" by shutting out the Los Angeles Dodgers five times in a row. Seems to me you should do a little research when you make such statements. He only tied the record set by Grover Cleveland Alexander against the Cincinnati Reds in 1916. I believe Larry is a left-hander-Alex was, of course, a righthanded, sidearm pitcher...
...League record by winning 27 games during the regular season-the most by any lefthander since 1900, and Don Drysdale (salary: $115,000), the burly righthander who recovered from a dismal start to win four out of his last five starts as the Dodgers swept to the National League pennant. The Dodgers also had 17-game Winner Claude Osteen, and a bullpen staff headed by Phil ("The Vulture") Regan, whose 1966 performance was nothing short of fantastic: 14 victories, only one loss, and an earned-run average (1.62) even lower than Sandy Koufax...
...know what you want to ask!" he told the reporter. "You want to know if the Dodgers or the Giants are going to win the pennant...
...pennant race, of course, was the overriding concern of most Californians this summer. Neither Brown, seeking his third term, nor Ronald Reagan, the political upstart from "Death Valley Days' who chaired Barry Goldwater's California campaign, is half as entertaining...
...managed by Leo Durocher, wound up in the National League cellar-thereby proving that it is not necessarily the nice guy who finishes last. Manager Hank Bauer of the American League champion Baltimore Orioles disproved another notion: that pay is related to performance. Bauer, who gave Baltimore its first pennant in 69 years, signed a new two-year contract for an estimated $50,000 a year-$25,000 less than the last-place Yanks pay their manager, Ralph Houk...