A.L. Central Update

Suddenly as often happens in baseball races, the A.L. Central crown would seem up for grabs as the Detroit Tigers have closed to within 3 games of the front running Cleveland Indians.

Virtually coinciding with the final two wins that lifted the NBA Cavaliers to Cleveland’s first sports crown since Dr. Frank Ryan found Gary Collins for 3 touchdowns in the old Browns’ (27-0) 1964 title game win vs the Baltimore Colts, the Indians began a 14 game win skein in June and led the division by what seemed a comfortable margin at one point.

Now the Tigers are “streaking” and perhaps the Indians, sans a title since 1948 need David Niven to quash the action, as he did after another kind of “streaking” occurred at the 1974 Academy Awards.

I still say, perhaps finding the great Mr. Niven near “Wuthering Heights,” where he was a “heavy” to the great, star crossed lovers played by Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon, the Indians will stay ahead of the Tigers.