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...segregationist, but, to use an analogy, I like to see a team that's sure to win the pennant lose at least one ball game...
...crown it all, the Dodgers went into the last inning of the last game leading the Giants 4-2-and then blew it, just as they had in 1951, when Bobby Thomson hit a three-run homer to give the Giants the pennant. Only this time, no crashing homer won the game. It came in with a bases-loaded walk...
...insomniac in Manhattan who gave up Seconal for the Yankees. But sloppy baseball can be fun to watch-as it was last week, when the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers fumbled and bumbled their way through a wacky three-game playoff for the National League pennant. All it proved was that while the club owners could take the boys away from Coogan's Bluff and Flatbush, they could never take the old ways away from the boys. And while the transplanted Bums and Jints staged their comedy of errors. 20 million TV fans sat transfixed with...
...matter how the rest of the series went, one man who came out ahead was Giant Manager Alvin Dark. A teetotaling, tithing Louisianan who plays golf in the 70s, onetime Shortstop Dark, 39, sparked the Boston Braves to a pennant in 1948, did the same for the Giants in 1954, when he teamed with the mercurial Eddie Stanky to give Coogan's Bluff the best double-play combination in the National League. A pennant winner in his sophomore year as Giant manager, Dark runs the club with the solicitude of a tenderhearted drill sergeant. He never swears...
...record in eight World Series of nine wins and four losses, Whitey could be counted on not to get flustered no matter whom he faced-the Dodgers and Maury Wills or the Giants and Willie Mays. But the Yanks hardly rated as long-odds favorites. In a drab pennant race that saw a perennial loser (the Washington Senators, now Minnesota Twins) come in second, and a baby in the league (the Los Angeles Angels) take third, they could not even win 100 ball games, while both the Giants and the Dodgers reached the century mark against tougher competition...