Word: pennants
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...fans all over, put away your bats and gloves in peace now. There really is justice in the world. There really was a pennant race, an autumn appendix to the Summer Game. Baseball is dead in Boston until next April, but its death was swift, fair and bittersweet instead of tragic...
When the reckoning hour finally came in this alleyfight of a pennant race--after 162 games and 8 2/3 innings, after the rise and the fall and the blowout and the desperation eight-game win streak by the Red Sox--the only tangible difference between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox was the 90-foot long stretch of land down the third-base line that blocked Rick Burleson's way to homeplate...
...Yankees take on the Kansas City Royals in the first of five games for the A.L. pennant tonight. The Red Sox will watch on T.V., having missed the trip to Kansas City by 90 feet...
Dennis Eckersley scattered seven hits for his 19th win and Jim Rice slugged his 44th homer last night as the Red Sox kept pace with pennant fever, beating the Detroit Tigers by a score...
...alas, champions of much else. The last World Series they won was in 1918. They have won the pennant three times since World War II, only to lose the Series in seven games, and been run-ners-up five times...