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...backward race for the National League pennant will move to the next to the last day. The Giants will play a double-header in Pittsburgh with Juan Marichal scheduled to pitch one, and the Dodgers will serve up the "new" Don Drysdale against the Phillies...
...Anybody Win? It was still a little early last week for a pennant party in the National League. First, somebody had to win the pennant-and the contenders all seemed to be doing their best to lose. The San Francisco Giants committed 23 errors in 13 games. The Pittsburgh Pirates' problem was erratic pitching: Woody Fryman allowed only four hits when he beat the Giants 3-1; but against the Atlanta Braves, he gave up six runs in four innings. The Los Angeles Dodgers had all they could do just to show up for a game. In addition...
...return to form of Don Drysdale, who looked like his old overpowering self when he shut out the Chicago Cubs 4-0. At week's end the Dodgers were leading the Pirates by H games, the Giants by 4. But it was still anybody's pennant, and none of the contenders were ready to go fishing quite yet. "This business is just battle, battle, battle," sighed Pittsburgh Manager Harry Walker, "every cotton-pickin...
...Baltimore Orioles had just beaten the Kansas City Athletics 6-1 to clinch the American League pennant-Baltimore's first in 69 years-and the Birds were flying. The delirious Orioles poured magnums of champagne over each other's heads; beer cans, pickles, jars of mustard and cartons of milk sailed through the dressing room. Club Owner Jerry Hoffberger was heaved bodily into the shower. He staggered out soaking wet, grabbed a telephone, and placed a person-to-person call to a Mr. William O. DeWitt in Cincinnati. "Mr. DeWitt?" crooned Hoffberger. "I just want to tell...
...been playing for three months with a torn leg muscle so painful that he cannot run out the infield grounders he now hits so consistently. Still, Yankee teams have been hard hit before: the 1949 club, for example, survived a succession of 71 separate injuries and won a pennant for Manager Casey Stengel-the first of ten he collected in his twelve years with the Yanks...