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...early to go out to Seals Stadium and cheer home the National League-leading Giants. In Chicago, when the American League-leading White Sox get a man aboard, the rhythmical clapping swells into waves, and a chant rolls out of the stands: "Go - go - go!" Much more than two pennant races is fascinating the fans this summer. Teams far down in the standings have somehow taken on a new glamour. In Washington, the Senators are in their customary place at the bottom of the league, but fans are filling seats that have stood empty for years, on the chance that...
...Negro first baseman scored three runs and drove in two in his first game, knocked across the winning score in his second, went 3-for-5 in his third, as the Giants won all three games and slipped back into first place in the tight National League pennant race...
...indeed. Last year in their first season in California the San Francisco (ex-New York) Giants finished twelve games off the pace in third place, and the Los Angeles (ex-Brooklyn) Dodgers wound up 21 games behind in seventh. This year the Giants and the Dodgers are chasing a pennant-and catching customers-with all the fire they flashed back at the Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field...
...knock the Bums, as also happened in Brooklyn. But things are heating up fast enough. Giant Manager Bill Rigney makes no bones about who is going to win: "My young bulls have the taste of first place, and they like it. We're going to win the pennant." The Dodger fans' answer: a rootin'-tootin' cavalry blast on dozens of trumpets carried into the ballpark, followed by a full-throated bellow from the stands: "CHARGE...
...right with seven other American League managers. For years the National League has had all the excitement-and 1959 is no exception, with a five-team pack nipping regularly at the Milwaukee Braves. But in the American League, a long Yankee lead and a solemn march to the pennant have been the usual condition at half time. Now the Yankees have touched off a scramble: as few as three games have separated the top five teams...