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...world has gone to pot. There was a time when the very least that a baseball fan could count on was that New York - or Brooklyn, anyway -would win the National League pennant, and the Philadelphia Phillies would wind up shoveling coal in the cellar. The Polo Grounds is a gutted steel skeleton now; Ebbets Field is apartment houses. And last week the Phillies were leading the league...
...dropped a protested game to the Pirates, 6-5, and bounced back to edge the Houston Colts, 7-6. By week's end the suspicion was beginning to dawn on Manager Mauch that the infection just might be incurable. "You know," he said, "we could even win this pennant...
Every Spring the American, League goes through an uneasy period when it appears that the Yankees might not win the pennant. Despite protestations to the contrary, the League finds the thought profoundly upsetting; it implies a disruption of the established order...
Nonetheless, with the passion of the lost cause leader or the glee of a little boy who knows he is doing something wrong, sportswriters are again writing, their traditional Spring obituaries for the Yankees. The failure of the New Yorkers to have clinched the pennant already is being explained by the traditional, idealistic theory that the League is stronger and the Yanks too old or too lame...
...twin victories over the pennant-contending service teams gives the Crimson a commanding position for the remainder of the race. Dartmouth is the only team left to play which has demonstrated consistent excellence, and a dose of the Crimson's Paul Del Rossi could prove fatal to the Green's chances...