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...When he took out after Fire Commissioner Robert Quinn, Royko wrote: "Remember, back in 1959 Quinn was the person who put Chicago under its first atomic alert. He blew all the air raid sirens late one night because he got a kick out of the White Sox clinching a pennant. And anyone who can talk his way out of sending people into the streets in their shorts to await doomsday can talk his way out of anything...
Marichal was fined $1,750 by National League President Warren Giles and suspended for eight days; Roseboro was not punished. Neither Juan nor the Giants ever regained their form: 19-9 before the fracas, Marichal ended the season with 22 wins, 13 losses. The Giants blew the pennant to the Dodgers, wound up two games behind. And the incident is still not closed; Roseboro is suing Marichal...
...tired Democratic Party needed. With the returns in, Democratic Senator Joseph Clark, who had backed Casey, admitted that the machine was "obsolescent, if not obsolete." Shapp, the first Jew to be nominated for Governor of Pennsylvania, was already gearing up for November. "We've won the pennant," he told supporters. "Now we go after the World Series...
There was a time when men could count on certain apparently eternal verities. The Yankees would win the pennant, Notre Dame would go undefeated in football, and Virginia politics would march to the tune of U.S. Senator Harry Flood Byrd...
According to baseball's version of the Chinese calendar, 1962 was the Year of the Stealer, 1963 was the Year of the Pitcher, 1964 was the Year the Phillies Folded, and 1965 was the Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant. So far, 1966 is clearly the Year of the Tape Measure...