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While the presidential race may not be close in Massachusetts, this year's Senate race in the Bay State is shaping up to be as intense as a Yankees-Red Sox series during a late September pennant race...
...taken only six months for the average American baseball fan to exchange his or her guarded loyalty for lemming-hood. The protests and low attendance figures that greeted players and owners at the beginning of this strike-shortened season have been replaced by the annual rite of pennant fever...
...BASEBALL STAGED AN EXCITING pennant race and nobody came, would it still make a noise? That philosophical question is being posed as the regular season dwindles toward its conclusion next Sunday. Thanks to the introduction of the sacrilege known as the wild card--the best second-place team in each league will join the three division winners in the postseason--clubs that would ordinarily be playing out the string are still scrambling for that last coveted, though maligned, seat. "We'll take it any way we can get it," says New York Yankee first baseman Don Mattingly, who can taste...
...another fall semester is upon us and thankfully this year shopping period has brought with it a renewed interest in baseball--the pennant races, the wild-card races, the post-season honors...
...year ago at this time returning students and incoming freshmen laced the prospects of a fall semester without any pennant chases, without the sound of bat against ball, without the World Series...