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Cleveland's Manager Tebbetts is not quite ready to claim the pennant-or a niche in the Hall of Fame for Mc Dowell. "A pitcher isn't a great pitcher just because he wins four straight," grunted Tebbetts. "Personally, I think McDowell is going to be great. But let's not put the monkey on his back...
clods; their pennant deeds grow...
...just have to tough it out, that's all," muttered Manager Johnny Keane. "It's a struggle sometimes." Keane, who performed a minor miracle in leading the St. Louis Cardinals to the National League pennant in 1964, was at a loss for explanations-at least he offered none. Everybody else had a theory, and some of them started with Keane him self. New York sportswriters grumbled that Keane, in his second year with the Yanks, was still a stranger to the team. Rumors flew that before the season was much older Keane would be replaced by General Manager...
...Crimson have not defeated the Tiger stickmen since 1925--a year in which the Washington Senators won the American League pennant...
...unaccustomed sunshine. It was still 70° at 8 p.m., and 50,761 excited fans jammed the city's new $18 million stadium to watch the Braves take on the Pittsburgh Pirates in the season's first night game. "Who's going to win the pennant?" somebody asked Dizzy Dean, and Dean replied unhesitatingly: "Milwaukee! Er-Atlanta...