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...baseball is a magical sport. Every one of us has fantasized about being on the mound, or at the plate, or in the field in the middle of that crucial game that will decide the pennant...
...statistics overshadowed Wally Joyner's, especially in the home run category, but he was popular with the writers and his team won the pennant, which gave him an advantage," Canseco said...
...long before most of you were born. I have benefited from Boston's suffering (most, after all, for Yankee gain) all my life. I reacted with boyish glee when, in 1949, Boston faced the Yanks one game up with two to go--and my guys won both for the pennant. And, although (honest to God) I didn't want Yaz to make the last out by popping to third, I decided that Bucky Dent was the greatest living American one afternoon in early October, 1978. The Red Sox, in other words, began as my mortal enemies...
That is, until 1967, the year of the Impossible Dream, and my rookie season in the Harvard professoriat. I loved that pennant race and cheered Boston on (why not, the Yanks were out of it, and one of my New York heroes, Elston Howard, was catching for the Sox). For the first time in my life, I suffered with you through the seventh Series game--though the final result was inevitable (I mean nobody but nobody could beat Bob Gibson, not even Lonborg, especially on two days rest...
...most satisfying game of the season forBranca was the team's pennant-clinching victoryover Brown's "B" team...