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...bookies weren't fooled either: the odds against the Yanks winning the American League pennant were 5-1, although Manager Johnny Keane insisted that this team was "better" than last year's sixth-place finishers. The team that did look better was Baltimore (odds: 3-1). Hank Bauer's Orioles batted only .238 last season, but they pried Frank Robinson away from Cincinnati over the winter, and he is an old horsehide hater: he hit .393 this spring, with eight homers and 17 RBls. Even so, the Minnesota Twins (3-1) would probably be a shoo...
...National League pennant will probably be decided one afternoon late in September after another long and grueling summer. It is nothing now to say that the '66 race will be a real dog-fight, with any of five teams having about an equal chance of squeezing in at the final...
...Every pennant race needs a dark horse, and the Pirates fill the role nicely this season. After a dismal start last year, the Bucs caught fire and were the most consistent winners after the all-star game. Harry "The Hat" Walker has virtually the same cast back, but this season he will open with a healthy Bill Mazeroski. Another plus is Matty Alou, acquired from the Giants. He fits into Bill Virdon's spot in centerfield, banked by Willie Stargell and Roberto Clemente...
Every team in the league double-teamed, brutally body-checked him out of plays, and all but filed down his skates. Moaned Hull: "You turn away from one man and there's still another on you." With Chicago's hopes for its first N.H.L. pennant riding on him, it looked as if the 51st were a quintessential jinx...
Hardly anyone realized that it was also the 21st time this season that Hull had scored while his opponents were short a man-another new N.H.L. rec ord. Bobby had still more in mind. In addition to that first Chicago pennant, there was the overall individual scoring record of 96, tallied by totaling both assists and goals. By week's end, after scoring his 52nd and 53rd goals and making one assist, Hull was only three points away from the overall record...