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Neither Paul O'Neill nor any of the other players had ever heard anything quite like last Monday night at the stadium when the Yanks crushed the Mariners 12-3 to clinch the A.L. pennant. "It was awesome," O'Neill recalled. "I saw so many things go on that night." An enthralling wave of singing and chanting--some of it even printable--washed over the crowd from the first inning and never stopped...
...dominance in almost every realm that mattered—money, political power, press—enabled it to exert an almost tyrannical influence on what once had been the nation’s fourth largest city. This supremacy extended to the diamond, where the Yankees and Giants won pennant after pennant. In the Dodgers—a team that embraced Brooklyn’s underdog role and uniquely represented a borough rather than a city—Brooklynites found a metaphor for their municipal existence and rooted like mad for “Dem Bums” to outshine their...
October 7, 1975: Boston Red Sox sweep win the American Leaugue pennant, sweeping the Oakland A’s, the reigning world champion...
STRATEGY REVEALED; of the 1951 pennant-winning NEW YORK GIANTS. The team triumphed over the Brooklyn Dodgers in one of the most mythologized games in baseball history, known for its "shot heard round the world," but the Wall Street Journal reported last week that the Giants probably read the Dodgers' pitching signals by placing in the center-field clubhouse a coach adept at deciphering signals with a telescope...
Last year Harvard entered the national collegiate pennant and earned third place overall. Yale did not enter...