1.   Before the Florida Marlins were pennant winners, they were castoffs and dreamers.

2.   He has played on three pennant winners and one World Series champion.

3.   I still have fond memories of two eight-team leagues, two clear-cut pennant winners and one best-of-seven playoff known as the Fall Classic.

4.   In the very clubhouse that emptied around him, he played for pennant winners and World Series winners that hit a lot, and sometimes each other.

5.   Major league baseball, then, would have no pennant winners and no World Series champion.

6.   Of those, five have not played for a Dodgers pennant winner.

7.   Piniella practiced the art of stroking line drives here for two championship teams and four pennant winners that had all the multidimensional skill of this current bunch.

8.   Ruth had been there for the first three World Series between New York pennant winners.

9.   So Len Coleman and Gene Budig, the two new league presidents, will each pass his first year in office without a pennant winner to show for it.

10.   The Braves, winners of their third pennant in five years, now await the American League pennant winner, Seattle or Cleveland.