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The Los Angeles Dodgers, champions of the National League, had barely arrived in Bloomington when they started bragging about what they were going to do to the American League's Minnesota Twins in the World Series. "Three or four clubs in our league could have won the pennant over...
This just had to be the loosest team in baseball. There they were, smack in the middle of one of the tightest pennant races in National League history, leading the league by 1½ games with four games still to play. Up in San Francisco, the second-place Giants had...
No-Hit Homers. They had reason to feel safe. The only way they could lose the pennant would be to wake up. The only man on the club who was batting as high as .290 was a pitcher, and the team's top slugger had hit only 12 home...
For a while, the way their pitchers were going, it looked as though the Dodgers would never lose a game. Then they did just that, 2-0, to Milwaukee.The Giants lost too, and next day Sandy Koufax clinched the pennant, beating the Braves 4-1 and getting his name in...
That day is Yom Kippur, and Sandy never plays baseball on Jewish holidays. But there is always Drysdale-and out in Las Vegas, oddsmakers made the Dodgers 10-13 favorites to win the World Series.