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Still, a string of wins, good pitching, hot hitting, loads of luck and then perhaps a pennant could resuscitate a city where baseball means more than usual at this stage in the game...
...Boston pennant--now becoming increasingly likely--would be wonderful. But soon the flag would go on top of a big pile of sports laurels, deserved but not fully appreciated. A New York championship would quickly get engulfed by the news-and-excitement-mongering metropolis in which the Yanks play only a bit part...
...this talk distracted the players themselves. By the time the Sunnyside Park grass turned green the next March, the recess period conversation at Stillman Elementary School turned, as usual, to baseball. An not just to the game itself, but to the exciting prospect of new uniforms and a tight pennant race. No first fight no matter how ugly was going to kill Little League in Tenafly. The older folks could worry now and yell and scream later; no one pounding the base paths at Sunnyside had time to worry about such distractions...
...Orioles are no strangers to bad starts. In 1979 they stumbled out of the gate at 3-8, but then stormed to 99 more victories and the AL pennant. And in an earlier year, 1974, they floundered at .500 until August--when they were eight games off the pace--and then blew out the rest of the division by winning 28 out of their last...
...have to like the chances of an emotionally sound team like the O's more than those of the faction-ridden Yanks, talented as they are. If a couple of arms come around, if outfielders start hitting the cut-off man again, the Birds could be knocking on the pennant door come September. That is--unless the Bosox don't run away with...