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Such poison! In 1959, the Yankee's third place finish inspired a hater to compose lovely verse. It was entitled, "To an ex-American League pennant winner...
...disappointing Red Sox close out the season with a series against the second-place Baltimore Orioles. The Sox have only the .500 mark to shoot for against the visitors, in a series that promised to be a pennant-deciding affair a few months...
Partly with that comic contrast in view, Douglas Wallop (The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant) has just finished a novel about mixed doubles and infidelity in the suburbs. Another effort, Courting by Sue Costello, promises to be a tennis player's version of Fear of Flying. But the best stories of the mixed-doubles scene might better be told by a writer like Edward Albee of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, who could chronicle the explosive marital tensions of the game. "What we'll soon need around here," says California's celebrated tennis pro Vic Braden, "is mixed...
...Boston Red Sox recaptured some of their pennant winning form last night, as they trounced the first-place New York Yankees...
...back and enjoy the game: Make a dollar bet with that man chomping on a cigar and waving a Yankees pennant. Ask the woman with the transistor radio what the score of the Celtics game is. And do not forget to strain your neck and watch the replay of the big hit, which you missed while soaking in the rays and catching a few Z's, on the all-new scoreboard...