The phrase "pennant race" refers to the competition among professional baseball teams at the end of the season for the opportunity to win the championship. Full definition
Carlo Ancelotti at AC Milan will no doubt remember these qualities from that night in Athens in 2007, Claudio Ranieri at Juventus has memories of Pennant racing down the wing in a Leeds shirt back in 2004 and Juande Ramos imagines Aaron Lennon but with crossing ability. (caughtoffside.com)
Even the most skillful retellings of the 2004 American League pennant race — Dan Shaughnessy's Reversing the Curse (Houghton Mifflin, 256 pages, $ 23), which offers many new details, and Mike Vacaro's Emperors and Idiots (Doubleday, 351 pages, $ 24.95), which ambitiously tries to put the whole thing in historical perspective — can't overcome the essential problem: Every reader already knows how the story ends. (si.com)
Super Mega Baseball 2 promises to please both the rookie or baseball purist, letting you compete in the ranked Pennant Race mode (1v1), the chance to dominate friends in arranged matches (1v1, 2v1, 2v2), or take on the AI (solo, local co-op, online co-op). (thexboxhub.com)