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...days after the New York Yankees clinched their third pennant in a row,* the National League race was right back where it started on opening day. In Philadelphia's Shibe Park. Brooklyn's stumbling Dodgers looked up at the big scoreboard and read the bad news from Boston. The Giants had actually done it. They had beaten the Boston Braves, 3-2, had whittled the Dodgers' 13½-game lead down to nothing and hauled themselves into the league lead. For the Dodgers, trailing the Phillies 8 to 5 in the sixth inning, it looked like...
Angels in the Outfield (MGM) answers an orphan's prayers by summoning down a heavenly host to help the Pittsburgh Pirates win the National League pennant.* Paul Douglas, as the team's profane manager, spurns this divine assistance until a thunderbolt and some pep-talks from Archangel Gabriel turn him into a true believer...
...Pittsburgh's last pennant year...
Johnny Vandermeer of the Cincinnati Reds pitched two no-hitters in two consecutive starts to be the other man to turn the trick in one season. This was during the 1938 pennant race...
...York Yankees swamped the Boston Red Sox twice yesterday to clinch their 18th American League pennant in 30 years as Allie Reynolds pitched his second no-hit game of the season in the opener...