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...National League. Oakland, champions in the American League West, had to wait for torrential rains on the East Coast to stop to find out that they would oppose Boston. As the race in the A.L. East squished to a conclusion, Boston finally buried the Orioles. The two pennant winners will square off for the championship-and the victors' share (estimated at $20,000 per player) of World Series loot...
...know better. The Orioles lost the pennant on a cool night in July after a game with Cleveland Indians. It happened in the first row of the upper deck, and it was all because of a girl named Barbara...
...players' uniforms. The colors collected perfectly into 50 baseball players for the Baltimore Orioles and Cleveland Indians clubs, the field in Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, and the two tanned legs of a girl in the upper deck. It was July 28, it was the beginning of a pennant race...
This past weekend the Baltimore Orioles lost any hope for the American League pennant with a double dip to the New York Yankees in Shea Stadium. The stolid people of Baltimore, who have always counted on their team's stretch drive to victory, probably blame their failure on the collapse in New York. The sanguine fans of Boston probably ascribe the Orioles' downfall to a two-game series in the beginning of September, when the Red Sox smoked the Orioles twice in Baltimore...
...quest of a pennant-clinching sweep, the Sox will probably send Reggie Cleveland to the mound tonight, followed by Luis Tiant tomorrow night, Dick Pole Saturday afternoon and Rick Wise on Sunday...