(See front cover) Baseball superstition says the teams which lead the major leagues July 4 will lead them when the season ends. The superstition proves nothing except the gullibility of the baseball public. Neither in 1934 nor 1935 was either pennant winner leading on July 4. Nonetheless, coming at midseason and coinciding with that mid-summer equivalent of the World Series, the All-Star game, July 4 serves as a convenient punctuation point in the long saga of the No. 1 U. S. sports event, the six months', 154-game pennant race. Last week baseball...
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