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...Bobby Thomson won baseball immortality when his ninth inning home run won the 1951 pennant for the Grants. For five points each, name the players who hit nigh inning homers which also won pennants for the 1938 Cubs and the 1976 Yankees...
...take you out to the ball game," it promised. "We'll put you in it-against the 1969 Chicago Cubs." To a man with enough boy in him to be a fan of the ever vincible Cubs, the offer was irresistible. While the team has not won a pennant since 1945 or a World Series since 1908, its performance in 1969 was nothing short of heartbreaking: the boys were flying high until they collapsed in September and finished second to New York's miraculous Mets. Now, for $2,195, any Cub-smitten manchild was offered a trip...
...Scottsdale rookies were motivated as much by sentimentality as by any illusions of athletic prowess. Dr. Leonard Arnold, 61, came along with his twin sons Larry and Gary, who "were born the last year the Cubs won a pennant." Jim Anixter, 38, a wire-company executive from Highland Park, Ill., was a member of a syndicate that attempted unsuccessfully to buy the Cubs from the Wrigley family in 1981 (the team was purchased by Chicago's Tribune Co.). Gene Marzelli, 45, of Palatine, Ill., who designs office interiors, had been working out daily since Thanksgiving. Everyone's favorite...
...Notestein of Milwaukee's hunger task force: "We've never had the kind of demand for emergency food that we're experiencing now." In 1982, the only highlights were the opening of the city's snazzy $70 million glass-and-steel downtown mall, and the pennant-winning performance of the Milwaukee Brewers. Alas, or perhaps predictably in this down year for Milwaukee, they lost the World Series...
...trades . . . And if you don't like it, you're fired." The canned comeback from Martin, whom Steinbrenner has dumped twice before: "You haven't even hired me yet." The born-again manager has a reported fiveyear, $2.5 million contract, but if he cannot inject some pennant fever into last year's fifth-place finishers, George no doubt will bounce Billy ball once more...