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Sport: Suddenly Last Summer

"Strange things," says Los Angeles Dodger Shortstop Maury Wills, "happen in September." Wills should know. As a 13-year veteran, he has helped the Dodgers hex the San Francisco Giants time after time in the late-summer stretch. This year, though, promised to be different. Off to their fastest start in a decade, the Giants led the National League's Western Division by as many as eleven games through the first five months of the season. Now in September, some strange things, like a Dodger streak and a Giant slump, make it look like the California...

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