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...York Yankees won their seventeenth American League pennant--and their second straight for Manager Casey Stengel--yesterday in the lobby of the Hotel Kenmore. While the Yanks were enjoying an off day in Boston, the Cleveland Indians eliminated the Detroit Tigers from the pennant race with a 12 to 2 victory at Briggs Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Major League Baseball | 9/30/1950 | See Source »

...National League, Brooklyn came from behind in both games of a doubleheader to defeat Boston, 7 to 5 and 7 to 6, and kept its pennant hopes alive. The Dedgers can now tie for the gonfalon by defeating Philadelphia today and tomorrow at Brooklyn in the final two games of the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Major League Baseball | 9/30/1950 | See Source »

Harvard students can keep posted on Korea, Congress, and Pennant Race Baseball every morning during the regular term by reading the CRIMSON's world news summary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: World News | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...rest his old reliables occasionally, save them for the games where they will be needed most. If baseball history repeats, two such games will be the last two of the season. Last year, as no New York or Boston fan needs to be told, the Yankees won the pennant by taking the last two from the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium. This year the teams end their seasons with a two-game series in Fenway Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Homestretch | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

...team, as one of the executors of the estate of the late baseball magnate Charles H. Ebbets. After the hapless Dodgers had wallowed in the second division for five years straight, the bank hired Larry MacPhail as general manager in 1938. MacPhail drove the Dodgers to a National League pennant in 1941, paid off a mountain of debts (some $500,000 to the Brooklyn Trust) by 1942. †The top four: Bank of America, National City Bank of New York, Chase National Bank, and Guaranty Trust Co. of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Two into One | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

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