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...contrast, many U.S. sporting events result in divisiveness signified by the "pennant race": two sub-divisions of a country pursuing the same goal. Consider the 1978 Red Sox and Yankees, who, in their struggle for American League East supremacy, embodied Athens and Sparta in their quest for hegemony over the Greek peninsula...
...ever to qualify for the Fall Classic, which makes them the pariahs of purists. And they benefited from home-plate umpire Eric Gregg's unusual strike zone in Game 5, when he gave new meaning to the baseball terms expansion and realignment. And they literally tried to buy the pennant with the $89 million owner Wayne Huizenga shelled out for free agents last winter...
Aside from a few true moments, the rites of fall have this year been almost, well, sullen. Pennant races? The wildcard took care of that. Playoffs? Three of the four series are already on the brink, and this whole first-round thing feels, well, a little preliminary. So stoke up your love of the game with The Bad News Bears (1976). Open a window on a crisp fall morning and let the woody breeze caress your VCR as Buttermaker (Walter Matthau), Amanda (Tatum O'Neal), and feisty Tanner remind you what our great pastime is all about. It'll take...
...issue of Harper's, forms the prologue for Underworld. It is a tour de force, an astonishing set piece that captures the sweep and emotions of those tumultuous few hours in the Polo Grounds as experienced by, among many others, the radio announcer Russ Hodges ("The Giants win the pennant!"), attendant celebrities Frank Sinatra, Jackie Gleason, Toots Shor and J. Edgar Hoover (yes, DeLillo learned later, they were really present), and a fictional black kid named Cotter Martin, who jumps the turnstiles to get in at the beginning and makes off, at the end of the game, with Thomson...
Just as suddenly, the Red Sox were back in the thick of the American League East pennant race. Fenway's not dead...