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...Simple Thing. In jaded New York, where the arrival of autumn serves mainly to announce one more World Series (25 pennants are draped on the walls of Yankee Stadium), news of the Yankees' victory was accepted serenely. Mayor Robert F. Wagner planned a ticker-tape parade, but the idea was promptly vetoed by the businesslike Yankee front office. "Too many things have to be done," explained a Yankee spokesman. Hard-shelled Ralph ("The Major") Houk, 42, who won a pennant in his first year as a big league manager, had a disarmingly simple explanation for his success. "Really, this...
Bookmakers confidently installed the slugging Yankees as prohibitive 5-12 favorites. Houk was quietly optimistic. But Hutchinson was not conceding a thing. "We played in a tough league, and we won the pennant," he said. "There's no reason why we shouldn't beat the Yankees...
...Roger Maris has hit 59 or 61 home runs depending on how you look at it; Warren Spahn has tossed a no-hitter, won his 300th game, and chalked up 20 victories for the umpteenth season; and most incredible of all, the Cincinnati Reds have won the National League pennant...
...champs, and a real blood and guts ball team at that. The New York Yankees especially should take Cincinnati seriously--although it will do them little good. For the Yankees are about to get bumped off in six games in the World Series by one of the most unobtrusive pennant winners of all time...
...which days Maris would hit a homer, how many he would hit. Nightly newscasts in Israel included Maris' personal box score for the day, and papers in baseball-happy Japan begged U.S. wire services for interviews with the Yankee slugger. Even when the Yankees made their 26th pennant mathematically certain last week, the news ran second to Maris' 59th homer...