[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[johnny7]

There’s always next year...

[ilgipper]

Amazing how sports has remained the constant for so many years. Almost all those headlines could be from today, just the names would be changed out.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Now that we have that European unpleasantness behind us we can relax for a few days and enjoy the Fall Classic. The New York Yankees ran away with the American League pennant and now know who their opponent will be. In those days the teams played their 154 games and the two clubs atop the standings at the end went to the World Series. No play-offs unless their was a dead heat. No mediocre teams vying for the last wild card spot.

Columbia must have been a big football power. They got a ton of coverage in the Times. And we must always cover the Fighting Irish.

[jilliane]

Hey Hey Holy Mackerel...no doubt about it, the Cubs are on their wayyyyyyyyyyyy

Fun retro post

[MAD-AS-HELL]

If the Dodgers have their way, the cubs are going to get shut out again...

GO BLUE (both Dodgers and Michigan!)

[Charles Henrickson]

Hey, I'd be happy with just a PENNANT this year, if not a World Championship. The Cubs have won a bunch of pennants, but none since 1945. That is the longest drought for a pennant, besides the longest drought for winning the World Series (1908).

BTW, Hall of Famer Gabby Hartnett, the hero of 1938, after he retired, ran a bowling alley about a mile or so from my house.

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[ReleaseTheHounds]

That’s a neat report... A couple of interesting items:

Charlie Root (the winning pitcher in the clinching game) was the guy who was pitching to Babe Ruth when Ruth called his shot at Wrigley.

The newspaper article reports that the Cubs had a torrid win streak the last month, but something seemed a bit crazy... I think the quote was: “They won 21 out of the last 25 including one tie” — I guess that means that one of the 4 was a tie but it sounded like they “won the tie”. Probably just another mainstream media misadventure.