Word: pittsburghs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seeing was the only way to believe what was going on in the National League last week. Who would have figured that the Pittsburgh Pirates and the San Francisco Giants, the two teams most experts figure to fight it out for the pennant, would rank No. 7 and No. 10? That Pittsburgh's Matty Alou, who led the National League in batting last year with a .342 average, would be hitting .217? That San Francisco Pitcher Juan Marichal, winner of 93 games over the past four seasons, would be sporting an 0-3 record and an earned-run average...
...Pittsburgh 7, Philadelphia...
...division." Oddsmakers figured otherwise: they picked the Yankees to finish no better than sixth and picked the Orioles as strong favorites (at 2-1) to win the American League flag again. The National League race, as usual, figured to be tighter. A lot of smart money was on the Pittsburgh Pirates (at 12-5), but the San Francisco Giants were a solid second choice at 3-1 -with $100,000 Pitcher Juan Marichal already flashing midseason form (five hits, two runs in ten innings despite his four-week holdout), and Willie Mays batting .350 in spring training. For long-shot...
...Angeles Toros boast 15 players from 13 countries. Which creates still another problem: language. On the theory that "Pass me the ball!" in Spanish just might be fighting words in Swahili, most National League teams have adopted English as their "official" language, and the Pittsburgh Phantoms have temporarily farmed out their players to Berlitz...
Northwestern-trained legal advisers are now with police in Pittsburgh, Corpus Christi and Chicago. At first, says Legal Intern Wayland Pilcher, who is with the Corpus Christi force, the cops were suspicious of him. But they came around once it dawned on them that his job was to make their own "work more effective within the guidelines...