Word: pennants
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tussled with one another in St. Louis in a showdown series. When the fight was over, the Dodgers had won two of the three games, were in front by two full games (with 14 more to go), were made 4-to-1 favorites to take their first National League pennant in 21 years...
...National League it was still a race, with the Dodgers and Cardinals neck & neck. But in the American League, New York's smooth-striding Yankees, though 20 games away from the wire, clinched the pennant for the fifth time in six years, began to sell tickets for next month's World Series to be played in New York City and either St. Louis or Brooklyn, starting...
Maybe the Yankees will never stop winning. Last week one of their 12 farm teams, the Newark (New Jersey) Bears, clinched the pennant in the International League (the East's top minor league) for the sixth time in ten years of Yankee ownership...
Also settled last week was the pennant race in the American Association, top minor league of the Midwest. Winners, with a lead of six and a half games over their nearest rival, were the Columbus (Ohio) Red Birds, one of the 25 farms under the St. Louis Cardinals...
...were neck & neck with only ten games to go. The Cards, hoping to strengthen their pitching staff, brought up from their Houston farm a rawboned busher named Dizzy Dean. Though Dean pitched only one game that year (a three-hit victory), Brooklynites can never forget: the Cardinals won the pennant...