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...consultant claimed a deduction on the expenses of operating his yacht, explained that he ran up a pennant with the number 1040 on it every time his yacht reached port, thereby advertising the fact he was open for income tax business. (IRS disagreed...
...Chicago. Crusty and bluntspoken, Hornsby walloped his way up from the Texas sand lots to set a fistful of records with the St. Louis Cardinals (National League batting champion six times in a row, thrice with .400-plus) ; as player-manager in 1926, he brought St. Louis its first pennant and world championship, but had less success with other teams, going from club to club until in 1937, he left the majors growling that managers have to be "yes men" to hold their jobs...
...disgusted with those chest-thumping, flag-waving Americans, TIME included, who reacted to the Cuban "victory" as if it were a baseball pennant. Bravery is not an absence of fear but the ability to do what must be done even when afraid. TIME quoted David Heffernan as being able to hold his head up because of the blockade. It was necessary to blockade Cuba, but there is a difference between being right and being righteous. Would Heffernan hold his head up even higher if, come war, we could kill 100 million Russians at a loss of only 50 million Americans...
...contract to manage the National League's not-quite-victorious Los Angeles Dodgers. While the World Series was delayed by rain, idle sportswriters amused themselves by speculating that the job would go to Leo ("The Lip") Durocher, who insisted that the Bums would not have kicked the pennant away to the Giants had he been boss. But General Manager Buzzy Bavasi decided to stick with mild, long-suffering Alston, and he in turn let on that Durocher could come back too, as a coach. Shrugged Bavasi: "If Alston can live with Leo that's fine with...
...ending of the 1962 classic carried a slightly familiar ring, the method used by the New Yorkers was as uncharacteristic of a Yankee team as pennant winners have been to the city of Boston (the '48 Red Sox did the trick for perhaps the last time ever). Strangely enough, pitching and defense rather than the traditional New York batting power stopped the Giants' bid for glory...