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...days after Labor Day, the World Champion New York Yankees led the Cleveland Indians by 3½ games; in the National League, the Brooklyn Dodgers led the New York Giants by a comfortable 8. At that stage, most Giant and Indian fans were ready to concede the pennants to the front runners. But this week, in what was fast becoming the hottest pair of pennant races in years, both Cleveland and the never-say-die Giants were still pounding hard at the leaders' heels...
...belted homers almost without trying, but he was more than just a slugger. It developed that he could throw like DiMaggio and field like Tris Speaker. In short, he was a natural. The whole team caught fire from him; within a few weeks, the Knights were back in the pennant fight...
...cramming the big-league schedules. In the National League, the Brooklyn Dodgers were sagging a trifle (to .664), but showed no signs of repeating their disastrous 1951 crackup. If Brooklyn keeps winning at the present clip, the New York Giants, trailing by 7½ games, can take the pennant only by winning 38 times in 43 tries. In the American League, the New York Yankees kept on taking the tough ones, thus kept a 1½-game edge on the Cleveland Indians. The league leaders at week...
Died. Philip Douglas, 62, outstanding pitcher (1919-22) for the New York Giants, who was banned from organized baseball for life; of a stroke; in Sequatchie, Tenn. Towering (6 ft.-4 in.) "Shufflin' Phil" scrawled an offer to go fishing in the middle of 1922's hot pennant race if the St. Louis Cardinals would make it worth his while. "I don't want to see this guy [Giants Manager John McGraw] win the pennant . . ."he wrote Cardinal Outfielder Leslie Mann. "Send the goods to my house ... and I will go home on the next train." Douglas...
With the baseball season just over the midseason hump, the 1952 pennant races had a strangely familiar look. In the National League, the Brooklyn Dodgers had pulled 7½ games ahead of the faltering Giants, were racing along at a .728 clip (mainly by winning 38 out of 39 games from the second-division Pirates, Reds and Braves). In the American League, the New York Yankees, despite the loss of Joe DiMaggio and Second Baseman Jerry Coleman (recalled by the Marines), had stretched their lead to 4½ games over the Boston Red Sox. The league leaders at week...