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...next few months, at least, no new attempt is likely, because Canadians of all persuasions are heading for their lakes and summer cottages. National leaders are counseling calm, and Jean Chretien, the newly elected head of the opposition Liberal Party, suggests that Canadians focus their attention on the pennant races of the Montreal Expos and Toronto Blue Jays. Not everyone took the advice to cool it. Quebec City and several other towns and suburbs announced they were canceling festivities marking Canada Day, the national day, on Sunday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada Designing The Future | 7/9/1990 | See Source »

...once again temporary kings in the American League East, try to lure me as a faithful but aging servant to the team's doomed pennant hopes, the haunting memories resurface...

Author: By Jonathan M. Berlin, | Title: Sox Angst Heats Up Yet Again | 7/3/1990 | See Source »

...once again, I have become a born-again zealot, convinced by the same tireless argument that we won't know it when the Messiah does actually arrive. Yes, I have once again been swept up in the great Red Sox pennant chase. Back, yet another time, for more abuse...

Author: By Jonathan M. Berlin, | Title: Sox Angst Heats Up Yet Again | 7/3/1990 | See Source »

...crow -- or in this case the seagull -- flies, it is a mere eleven miles across San Francisco Bay from Candlestick Park, home of the National League pennant-winning Giants, to the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, where the American League champion Athletics play. That distance is only a tad farther than the mileage between Yankee Stadium in the Bronx and the Brooklyn housing project where Ebbets Field used to be, sites of the last public- transit World Series back in 1956. This week the A's and Giants, having finished off their respective challengers from Toronto and Chicago, are launched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: In The West: Play Baysball! | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

Against that array, the Giants have converted reliever Scott Garrelts (14-5), 40-year-old Rick Reuschel (17-8) and the erratic Mike LaCoss (10-10). Fourth starter Don Robinson (12-11) pitches with a bad knee, and closer Steve Bedrosian barely avoided blowing a save in the pennant-clinching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: In The West: Play Baysball! | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

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