Sport: Mid-Season

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Baseball superstition says that the team which is leading each major league on July 4 will come out ahead at the end of the season and play in the World Series. What lends weight to this superstition is that, during the past 25 years, it has been substantiated by fact two-thirds of the time. As July 4 approached last week, the New York Giants topped the National League two games ahead of their nearest rival, the Chicago Cubs. In the American League, the New York Yankees were so placed that...

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