Word: playoffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winning three out of every four games, they leapfrogged over the aging Dodgers and drew a bead on the Giants. The Braves have a tight infield, good pitching, and a magician of their own-former Giant Bobby Thomson, who hit baseball's most famed home run: a ninthinning playoff blast against the Dodgers to win the 1951 pennant for New York. At week's end, facing a crucial three-game series with the Giants, the Braves faltered, stood a formidable 4½ games off the pace. But the Giants were ready. By spoonfeeding his puny pitching staff, Manager...
...Prewar clubs drew small crowds, were no match for the hopped-up enthusiasm of intercollegiate competition. Then the pros began to import popular American stars, and as the quality of pro football picked up, so did the size of the rooting sections. November's Grey Cup. classic-the playoff for the professional championship-began to pack Toronto's Varsity Stadium (capacity...
...into one of the best in the league. It was perilously late in the season-the Giants were 13½ out of the lead on Aug. 11. But in a wild and breathless finish, they tied the Dodgers on the last day of the season, beat them in the playoff for the pennant, with Bobby Thomson's last-ditch "Home Run Heard 'Round the World." When they lost the World Series to the Yankees, the Giants comforted themselves with thoughts of next year...
...manner. Despite a tee shot deep into the woods, Patton won No. 36, to even matters with another scrambling par. "I never let well enough alone," observed Billy Joe with a grin as he watched his tee shot dribble into the rough beside a bush in the extra-hole playoff, where one miscue meant the match. "Here I go putting the ball back into the woods; I have to play trick shots all afternoon...
Next day, in the playoff, Hogan, the Mechanical Man, blew a piddling, three-foot putt on the 16th. He never recovered. For the third time, by a margin of one stroke in 90 holes, Sam Snead was Master of the Masters...