Sport: History Doesn't Repeat

In Brooklyn it was "heart rendering."

Just a year ago last week the St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn's Dodgers had faced one another in a do-or-die showdown for the National League pennant. And Brooklyn's big Righthander Whit Wyatt had pitched the Dodgers to a 1-to-0 shutout against the Cards' big Righthander Mort Cooper.

Now Cooper and Wyatt were on the mound again and it was happening all over again, only not quite the same way. During August the scrappy young Cardinals had come up from behind until now they were only two games behind the faltering Dodgers. Cooper had not lost a game...

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