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Erma Bombeck, humorist, on what women discuss in beauty parlors: "Pretty much the same things men talk about in bars, only they don't care about who won the pennant...
...best place to learn this and other regional truths is the bleachers at Fenway Park, where I attended my first lesson in the year of the great pennant race. Detroit--hopeless, out of it, grungy--was in town, and the game, like every game that fall, meant everything...
...Japanese it means king. In Japanese baseball it means the King: Sadaharu Oh, highest-paid athlete in Asia, with an estimated career income of $7.5 million. Honored bearer of uniform No. 1 for Tokyo's Yomiuri Giants, he led the team to 13 Central League pennant titles and twelve Japan Series victories in 21 years. Sadaharu is a lefthanded power hitter with a .301 career average and 868 home runs to his credit, more than Babe Ruth's 714, more than Hank Aaron's 755. Oh, what a commotion when Oh-san, now 40, retired! Five sports...
...mutinously, but they won games in September for a change, finally clinching the division title with one game left in the season. After five tortuous playoff games, four of them extra-inning struggles of exquisite suspense, the Phillies extinguished the Houston Astros' hopes for their first National League pennant...
...Royals returned to Kansas City like long-suffering exiles. They had clinched the American League pennant in the enemy's ballpark and watched leads disappear in the first two World Series games before deafeningly partisan Philadelphia fans. Largely a home-grown lot nurtured in the Royals' farm system, they were glad to be back among friends. Said Catcher Darrell Porter: "We haven't heard a single cheer for anything we've done for a week. It will be good to get back to our park and our fans...