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While the New York Yankees coasted last week, the Dodgers and Cardinals, like two groggy pugs, tussled with one another in St. Louis in a showdown series. When the fight was over, the Dodgers had won two of the three games, were in front by two full games (with 14...
In the National League it was still a race, with the Dodgers and Cardinals neck & neck. But in the American League, New York's smooth-striding Yankees, though 20 games away from the wire, clinched the pennant for the fifth time in six years, began to sell tickets for...
If their beloved "Bums" could take three games, Brooklyn fans figured, they might pull far enough away from those pesky Cards to shake them off in the homestretch, give Brooklyn its first pennant in 21 years. In the first doubleheader, with cagey Cardinal Manager Southworth starting two southpaws (poison to...
That should have satisfied Brooklyn fans. The series had been a hair-raising standoff. The Dodgers were still one and a half games in front. For the September homestretch, they have an easier schedule than the Cardinals. They proved that they can match St. Louis slugger for slugger, fielder for...
But last week there was Weltschmerz in Flatbush, Canarsie, Brownsville and Greenpoint. Brooklynites didn't like the looks of Howard Pollet, a 20-year-old southpaw the Cardinals had just brought up from their Houston farm. Dodger fans had seen enough of one left-handed Cardinal rookie, Ernie White...