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...clap of his hands before tipping his cap to the fans. They stood and cheered for three minutes. Rose's first thought after getting his hit? "I wanted to be sure I had a chance at second in case the ball took a bad hop. We're in a pennant race, you know...
Unfortunately for the Yanks, they won't start either Ron Guidry (15-1) or Ed Figueroa (10-7) against the Sox, but they have been playing much better of late, making up half of the one-time 14-game deficit. Make no mistake about it; there will be a pennant race. Sorry, greedy fans, no runaways here...
...winds of war did blow one team some good. The St. Louis Browns had long been regarded as baseball's version of the Polish joke; in 1944 they had gone 42 years without a pennant. As the draft began to erase differences between the teams, the oddball Brownies prospered. In the outfield were Mike Kreevich, a man with a penchant for hitting into double plays, and Milt ("Skippy") Byrnes, a 4-F with a bronchial condition. One of their catchers, Frank Mancuso, was a former lieutenant who had injured his back during parachute training; he could neither remain...
...before the leaves change color. Baltimore manager Earl Weaver looks at the Sox 50-21 record and probably thinks of 1974, when Boston had a 7 1/2-game lead on August 23, only to lose the title to the Birds in the last two weeks. Don't worry about a pennant race, boy and girls...
...fans have a connoisseur's appreciation of the slugger's art, the cheers begin when he strides to the on-deck circle. Rice has sparked Boston to its best start since 1946, when Ted Williams and Dom DiMaggio returned from World War II to win the first Red Sox pennant in almost three decades. Says one Sox fan: "They can be down six runs in the ninth inning, but if Rice still has a chance to bat, nobody leaves...