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...benched the first two Series games with Philadelphia and displaced by Lowenstein, who made a marvelous catch in Game 1, hit a mighty homer in Game 2, and was replaced by Roenicke in Game 3. "I don't want to play the third game," said Lowenstein sensibly. "Steve Carlton is pitching." That is a typically reasonable reaction for an Oriole, especially Lowenstein, who never says, "I hit a home run," rather, "I immobilized the outfielders," and who regards personal records lightly. As he says, "All statistics will be rendered meaningless at the outset of World...
...38th birthday last week, Palmer won the Series' third game (3-2) in relief of Flanagan, as the Phillies' 300-game-winner Steve Carlton had the unusual experience of being caught from behind. Palmer, for most of this year a "nonperson," his own phrase, is contemplating a change of address himself after 19 seasons. Unlike Rose, though, Palmer has been in unfailingly fine humor. "I thought we had an illegal mound in Baltimore, but that [Veterans Stadium] mound must be 25 inches high. I almost fell over on the first pitch. No wonder Carlton is as good...
...Phillies will try to clinch the pennant Saturday night with 300-game winner Steve Carlton, who beat the Dodgers in Game One of the series. Los Angeles, hoping to extend the playoff to a decisive fifth game, will probably start Jerry Reuss, the first-game loser...
...Carlton not only got the win, but was also named the game's most valuable player. Reuss, the Dodger starter, took the loss, and Holland picked up a save...
...William Saroyan play, Love's Old Sweet Song, offered a character who sold TIME subscriptions and reinforced his pitch by reciting the euphonious glories of the magazine's masthead ("Carlton J. Balliett Jr., Robert Cantwell, Laird S. Goldsborough . . ."). In 1977 an angry protest novel by Robert Coover, The Public Burning, described TIME, ironically, as the national poet laureate. In a current Broadway musical, My One and Only, the hero dreams of being on the cover of TIME. In a recent song Billy Joel is more ambiguous...