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...somehow extracts pleasure from defeat. Just as Yankee fans expect a winner, Phillie fans have learned to expect a loser. The Phillies seldom let them down. No other major league team has lost 100 games a season so many times (13). No other National League club has won the pennant so rarely (twice). No other ball team begins a season with such little promise and ends it in such profound despair...
...song they wrote to celebrate the Reds' surprising climb to first place in the National League. But last week it was getting there fast. Shopkeepers unearthed yellowed 1940 newspapers and put them on display as a reminder of the last time the Reds won a pennant. Music lovers carried transistor radios to the Cincinnati Zoo's summer opera to hear the score between arias of Verdi's Macbeth. Attendance at Crosley Field was up 24% over last year, headed for a million-season mark as 431,683 went to see the Reds' first 38 home games...
...Detroiters listened. Their big-league ball club, moribund for the past 15 years, was suddenly the top team in baseball. Last week the Tigers split four games with the New York Yankees, swept three from the Baltimore Orioles, and moved five games in front of the American League. Pennant fever raged in Detroit...
Although both are Eastern League games, neither has a direct bearing on the pennant race since Navy is far ahead with a 6-0 record. Rescheduling is still in doubt because of the impending examination period...
...Crimson would give them a 3-1 record only a half-game behind B.C. in the race for the pennant they have won four of the last six years under Shepard...