[Homer_J_Simpson]

At the request of management I will now be posting to Chat/General instead of News/Activism. I guess people objected to reading old news along with new news. Like 25 most rockin' guitar riffs. Oh, well.

Today we have some front page stuff on China and a shortie on Great Britain having a spat with ally Italy over the Spanish Civil War. I will add a reply with a new feature I want to try out. See it below (eventually).

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Whatever troubles Europe and the Far East are going through the pennant race is still more of a concern for many Americans. For those of you who don't remember pennant races, there were eight teams in each league. The one from each league with the best record won "the pennant" - that is, it represented the league in the World Series. Nowadays we have playoffs instead. Not the same. See if you know the nicknames of all the teams. I missed the Boston National League team.

Major League Baseball

American League -----------------Won Lost Percentage Games Behind
Cleve -------------24 - 13 ---.649
N. Y. -------------20 - 15 ---.571 -------- 3
Wash -------------23 - 18 ---.561 -------- 3
Boston ------------20 - 17 ---.541 -------- 4
Detroit ------------19 - 18 ---.514 -------- 5
Phila --------------15 - 20 ---.429---------- 8
Chic --------------12 - 19 ---.387---------- 9
St. L --------------11 - 24 ---.314-------- 12

National League -----------------Won Lost Percentage Games Behind
N. Y. ------------25 - 12 ---.676
Chic -------------24 - 15 ---.615 --------2
Boston ----------18 - 14 ---.563 --------4 1/2
Cincin -----------20 - 18 ---.526 --------5 1/2
Pitts -------------18 - 18 ---.500 --------6 1/2
St. L. ------------15 - 20 ---.429 --------9
Bklyn ------------14 - 26 ---.350 --------12 1/2
Phila -------------11 - 22 ---.333 --------12