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...Blase. To the imperious New York Yankees the only difference between their two potential series opponents was the 25,000-seat cushion of the Dodgers' Chavez Ravine over the Giants' Candlestick Park. Celebrating their own pennant, the 27th in 41 years, the Yanks were the image of champagne-sipping nonchalance. "Why should I be excited," sniffed Roger Maris, taking the series in his usual stride. "It's something we expected all along." But the Yankees do not have quite that much to be blasé about. If Maris was last year's home-run terror...
...looked for awhile as if we weren't going to have a world series. No team in either league seemed particularly interested in winning the pennant...
...after the Giants had clinched the pennant, they faced a young Dodger lefty named Karl Spooner. He fanned 15, and before fading into obscurity the next spring, he excited a winter slogan in Flatbush: "Now we got Spooner sooner...
Willie Mays blasted two of four San Francisco Giant home runs as the Giants took the first N.L. pennant playoff game from the Dodgers, 8-0. Billy Pierce held the Los Angeles team to only three hits, bringing the Dodgers' total of scoreless innings...
...deadpanned the New York Post. So it was. Casey Stengel's fumbling, stumbling newcomers to National League baseball lost their 82nd game (v. 29 wins), going down, 7-5, before the Los Angeles Dodgers and thereby setting a new record: they eliminated themselves from the National League pennant race earlier in the season than any other ball club in the 87-year history of the major leagues. Even if the Mets won all 51 of their remaining games, they would still finish with an average of less than .500; since at least one N.L. club must therefore finish above...