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...course I had returning veterans," Love commented, "but then again, so do the Red Sox. I doubt if they will win the pennant." He pointed out that unlike the past two years, all three classes are represented almost equally in the number and to a certain extent, in the quality of crewmen. "This is a more normal setup," Love went on, "and the result was that the new men pushed some of the veterans down...
...excuse for this explosion of song and dance is a book called The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, by Douglas Wallop; it involves an ardent fan of the Great American Game who sold his soul to the devil for a chance to win the pennant for his team. The plot may get forgotten at times, but Damn Yankees offers something for everybody, a pleasant mixture of sex and good old homey sentiment, with the accent of course on the former...
...Looking back over the big-league baseball season, sportswriters decided that the 27 victories with which Pitcher Don Newcombe won the Dodgers the pennant far outweighed his dismal failure in the World Series. By a margin of 40 points over his aging teammate, Pitcher Sal Maglie, Big Newk was named the National League's Most Valuable Player...
...have said something about it. But the fact was that he had just signed a -new contract to manage the Yankees for another two years at a fat $80,000 a year. What were 66 years to a man who had just won his sixth World Series and seventh pennant in eight years as the Yankees' manager...
...First Game belonged to Maglie. Slaughter reached him for a single and then a brash youngster named Mickey Mantle clouted a two-run homer. Sal was magnificently unconcerned. The two last-minute victories with which he had ensured the Dodgers' pennant weighed heavily on his wrenched back. But he bent his wicked curve over the corners of the plate and he never made the same mistake twice. Slaughter calmly hit him three for five, but Sal struck out ten Yanks, stranded another nine on the bases. Behind him, the Dodgers piled up nine hits (including homers by Robinson...