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Never-say-die-guys: when everything goes right, teams seemingly out of the pennant race can overcome insurmountable leads to win.
SURE, THINGS DON'T LOOK SO bright for fans in the heat of August and mid-September when their team is ten or more games out of the pennant chase--but baseball can be a funny game.
"When you're eight games behind, it's like eight miles," said Ron Santo, the Cubs' radio broadcaster and former third baseman. "When you're eight games in front, it's like eight inches.
"It's funny. That's how that works. You never know what might happen."
Santo speaks from experience. He hit 29 home runs and had 123 RBI for the star-crossed 1969 Cubs, a team best remembered for losing a nine and a half-game lead to the Amazin' Mets over the final seven weeks of the ...
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