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...Dean Burch: Yogi Berra's reward was being fired for not taking the World Series. What would Burch suggest for the manager of a '64 political-pennant contender who strengthened his pitching staff for the race by trading Abe Lincoln for Strom Thurmond...
Died. Fred Hutchinson, 45, hot-tempered, harddriving manager of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team, a pennant winner in 1961; of lung cancer, which forced him to retire last August; in Bradenton...
...wanted to win this thing in six games." But White knew better than to argue with Fifi LaTour and her Oriental advisers. "Fifi," he said solemnly, "is always right." Well, almost. Old Stripper Fifi, the Cardinals' favorite fortuneteller, did predict that St. Louis would win the National League pennant - on the last day of the 1964 season. Of course, she also predicted that the Cards would need only five games to demolish the New York Yankees. But no baseball player is going to knock a .500 batting average - let alone .750. And last week Fifi made it three...
...cavernous Yankee Stadium. Said Pitcher Ford: "The Cards will die in Dead Man's Gulch." But the Cards had something going for them, too: a retired stripper in Venice, Fla., named Fifi LaTour, who had been sending them postcards all season long predicting that they would win the pennant. Now Fifi was phoning in her World Series forecast. "She says we won't come back from New York," exulted a Cardinal. "She says we'll win it there...
...here win this thing? At week's end, it was still anybody's guess who would be playing the New York Yankees in the World Series, whenever that was. Anybody was fine with the Yanks, who were happy just being there themselves -finally clinching the American League pennant with an 8-3 victory over Cleveland in their next-to-last game...