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A pennant is a commemorative pennon typically used to show support for a particular athletic team. Pennants have been historically used in all types of athletic levels: high school, collegiate, professional etc. Traditionally, pennants were made of felt and fashioned in the official colors of a particular team.
Pennant race, the race to clinch the division title in a regular baseball season; Pennant (military), a tapering flag historically carried for identification purposes by cavalry detachments, attached to lances or standard poles. Pennant, a reference to Flag and pennant patterns in technical analysis of a stock market chart
The National League pennant winner of a given Major League Baseball season is the team that wins the championship—the pennant—of MLB's National League (NL). This team receives the Warren C. Giles Trophy and the right to play in the World Series against the champion of the American League (AL).
There is no great NL team. There are plenty of good ones.
The Yankees also hold the record for most wins by a pennant-winning team, with their 1998 team winning 114 out of 162 games, [16] finishing 22 games ahead of the Boston Red Sox. [17] The 1954 Cleveland Indians won the most games of any pennant winner under the pre-1969 system, winning 111 out of their 154 games [ 18 ] and finishing eight games ...
Vertical has acquired U.S. rights to “Bucky F*cking Dent,” a father-son story set against the 1978 Red Sox vs. Yankees pennant race. The movie was written, directed by and stars David Duchovny.
The Shot Heard 'Round the World: Dotted line represents the approximate track of Thomson's game-winning line drive home run. In baseball, the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" was a walk-off home run hit by New York Giants outfielder and third baseman Bobby Thomson off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca at the Polo Grounds in New York City on October 3, 1951, to win the National League (NL ...
The Cubs–Giants–Pirates pennant race continued to the final days. Rainouts during the season forced the Giants to play 10 games in the last week of the pennant race. [29] After Merkle's boner, the Giants won 11 of their last 16 games to finish 98–55. The Cubs won 8 of their last 10 after the Merkle game to also finish 98–55.