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Walter Johnson, perhaps the greatest pitcher of all time, had a lifetime ambition to win a World Series game. The Senators, his club, were a perennial second-division team. In the twilight of his career, however, the Senators won a pennant and met the Giants in the 1924 Series...
...stretched out his hand, smote an eleventh-inning pitch into the center-field bleachers, beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 4-2, and cured a civic inferiority complex. After predicting it brashly for five summers, Milwaukee citizens finally saw their boast come true. The Braves had won a National League pennant...
...Boston Red Sox boosted the Yankees one step closer to the pennant yesterday, as George Susce walked in three runs to hand the Yanks a 5-1 win. The victory assured New York of at least a tie for the American League flag...
...response was expansive. "He wasn't cheap," said Casey of the attacker. "He hit me with a full cup." The feelings on both sides of the matter were plain. The White Sox were in the process of piddling away what might well be their last chance at the pennant...
Professional Yankee haters had been singing a familiar lament: "The Yanks are trying to buy another pennant." There were rumors that the pitching-poor New Yorkers were trying to buy Sal ("The Barber") Maglie from the outpaced Dodgers. This week the rumors became fact. In New York, at least, even anti-Yanks had reason to be thankful. Their Giants were taking it on the lam; their Dodgers were talking flight and fading fast. The Yanks were not only sticking around, but had bolstered their promise of a World Series, divided with Milwaukee's high-flying Braves...