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Let’s see what happened around the league on Pennant Race Roundup ... they came back to win and bring the Tigers to within a ...

Pent-up emotions that were unleashed on Sept. 14 when the Hanshin Tigers captured the Central League pennant for the first time in 18 years could be a home run for the national and local economy.

Picture the scene: It’s Sept. 10, 1934, and Greenberg’s Detroit Tigers have a four-game lead on Babe Ruth’s New York Yankees in the pennant race. Detroit hadn’t won the pennant since 1909.