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...them the team to beat in the American League-despite the Chicago White Sox's five straight wins-did not even raise a smile on Joe McCarthy's square jaw. Said poker-faced Joe: "My team's better than last year. We'll win the pennant...
Company C, upset earlier in the season by a mediocre D quintet, had kept themselves in the pennant race by smashing Adams 86-53 last Friday in a game which saw Wally Hull of Company C break the intramural scoring record for a single game with a total of 34 points notched. And then on Tuesday the Navy team earned the right to meet Standish in a championship playoff by slapping the freshmen for their first loss of the second tournament...
...boss of the Cincinnati Reds a decade ago, Larry the Red painted the park orange, introduced usherettes and night baseball. Attendance figures doubled. He founded a farm system that brought Cincinnati two pennants, one world championship. Then MacPhail took over the seventh-place Brooklyn Dodgers, who were in hock to the Brooklyn Trust Co. for a half-million dollars. He talked the banking gentlemen out of another $300,000, peeled off dizzy amounts for new players, promoted crowd-drawing grudge fights with every club in the National League. When he quit Flatbush for the Army three years ago (the colonel...
Whatever happened in the World Series would be an anticlimax. For the first time since 1908 the American League pennant race had gone smack down to the wire; on the last day of the season, after 153 games, the Detroit Tigers and St. Louis Browns were even Stephen, with 88 wins and 65 losses apiece...
...Sportsman's Park's left-field bleachers, Detroit had lost, 4-to-1. A better team than the Browns might have wilted right then & there, but Luke Sewell & Co. were not even breathing hard; they breezed to a 5-to-2 victory and the Browns' first pennant in American League history...