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These historical facts explain the Dodger pennant and the high quality of baseball in the Series. Since the New Dodgers were playing the good ol' Yankees, though, the Yankee collapse is still mysterious...
...treaty, of course, but we were due for a period of cooperation with the Russians. The economy has remained pretty stable, corporate profits are good, gold is flowing from Fort Knox as usual, the normal number of governments have been overthrown, and the Yankees won the American League pennant...
Stan Musial, the St. Louis Cardinals' star right fielder who plans to retire this year, will throw out the first ball in tomorrow's World Series opener at Yankee stadium. The American League pennant winners wired Stan the Man the invitation as soon as St. Louis was mathematically eliminated from the National League title...
Smokey Alston smiling? The Dodgers winning? It was only yesterday that the collapsible Dodgers blew a four-game lead in the final week and presented the 1962 National League pennant to the San Francisco Giants. And it seemed only the day before that Bobby Thomson of the Giants deposited a dinky drive into the leftfield seats at the Polo Grounds to beat the Dodgers in a playoff for the 1951 pennant. Now the stage was set for another whirlwind finish that would leave the Dodgers flat on their backs, muttering dazedly: "Wait till next year...
...usual, the Los Angeles Dodgers were ahead and fighting for their lives. But this year there were few signs of the panic-stricken collapse that cost them the pennant in 1962. Since Labor Day, the Dodgers have been playing .715 baseball. The excitement came from the St. Louis Cardinals, who last won a pennant in 1946, and in recent years have been a pale shadow of the great Gashouse Gang of the '30s. The experts picked Manager Johnny Keane's Cards for fifth place. But now, ready for a fateful three-game series with the Dodgers this week...