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Week 23 Summary (09/16/1957 - 09/22/1957)

Eddie Mathews
Week 23 is in the books and the two World Series teams have been identified - the Chicago White Sox clinched the AL Pennant on Thursday and the Milwaukee Braves clinched the NL pennant on Friday. Both teams had comfortable leads and could maybe have strung it out a little longer but both teams are on hot streaks and didn’t want to slow down.

Ernie Banks
Even with the World Series teams being settled there is still a week of games to complete. A few teams have seven games remaining, most less, and the midweek games are spread out a little bit as teams continue to finish their inter-regional conflicts. Both Saturday and Sunday have full slates (but no doubleheaders) as teams bid adieu to the 1957 season.

There are still players who will be making their debuts during these

Roberto Clemente

final few games, a thrill that many of us will never know. There are also others that will be making their final major league appearance, most, unfortunately, having that decision made for them. The game still carries on though, fresh blood always hungry to replace the old, so let's go play some games.

 


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