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...pitchers "plumbers" in front of everybody and standing on the dugout steps shouting "Whommy! Whommy!" to put the hex on opposing teams. So the fans flocked to the park-1,732,597 of them last year, almost 500,000 more than the Yankees drew while winning the American League pennant...
...made no sense. Neither does anything else about the 1965 pennant race, closest and wildest in National League history. Last week only 41 games separated the top five teams-most of which seemed extraordinarily determined to give the pennant to somebody else. The Milwaukee Braves lost ten out of twelve, still found themselves only two games back, in fourth place. Led by Jim ("Double No-Hit") Maloney, who closed in on Koufax by winning his 17th against six losses, the Cincinnati Reds swept a double-header from the Braves and jumped from third place all the way to first. Next...
...anyone who looked at the top of the National League standings. Last week, with four clubs-the Dodgers, Giants, Milwaukee Braves and Cincinnati Reds-bunched so closely together (within 1½ games) that only a crowbar could pry them apart, the league was in the midst of the tightest pennant race in its history. Two other teams, the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Philadelphia Phillies, were also within striking distance of the leaders, and the tension was terrific-especially in San Francisco...
...ordered Braves pitchers to moisten the ball, kept careful count of how many times (75) they got by with it, and released the statistic to sportswriters after the game. Bobby's latest project is to embarrass the whole city of Milwaukee−by giving it a National League pennant...
...baseball's most cynical observers. Despite the Twins' casualty list, Las Vegas bookmakers have refused to change the odds. The Minnesota club is a solid 3-to-5 favorite to win the American League pennant...