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The Los Angeles Dodgers made a two-game sweep of their playoff series with Milwaukee by defeating the Braves 6-5 Tuesday. They produced three big runs in the ninth to tie the score, then crumbled in the 12th.
But the zaniest part of the 1959 season--the National League pennant race--is still going on. It invites your inspection this afternoon and quite possibly tomorrow as well. The Dodgers and Braves played to a dead heat during the regular schedule, and they were still even after five innings...
There have been other dead heats, of course. The Cardinals whipped the (then) Brooklyn Dodgers in 1946, and Cleveland dispatched Boston in a one-game A.L. playoff in 1948. But the only climax that seems likely to match this year's in sheer excitement was the 1951 thriller, when the...
¶ As the second-place Cleveland Indians faded in the American League pennant race, terrible-tempered General Manager Frank Lane complained that Manager Joe Gordon would need a miracle to win, added that he was eying four or five other men for the job next year. Gordon promptly quit, and...
Her contemporary, T. S. Eliot, has said that her work is "part of the small body of durable poetry written in our time." But what fine poet other than Marianne Moore would dare conduct a love affair with the "Brooklyn'' (not the Los Angeles-no, never) Dodgers in...