In the National League it was still a race, with the Dodgers and Cardinals neck & neck. But in the American League, New York's smooth-striding Yankees, though 20 games away from the wire, clinched the pennant for the fifth time in six years, began to sell tickets for next month's World Series to be played in New York City and either St. Louis or Brooklyn, starting Oct. 1.
Maybe the Yankees will never stop winning. Last week one of their 12 farm teams, the Newark (New Jersey) Bears, clinched the pennant in the International League (the East's top minor league) for the...
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