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...friends from Cincinatti chatted quietly of Bernie Carbo and Johnny Bench and the Big Red Machine. Another brought up the Dodgers and that infield of Garvey, Lopes, Russell and Cey that seemed to play together forever as the boys in Freeway Blue rolled through the late '70s. For my part, I just rambled back to first grade and those Amazing Mets of 1969--Al Weiss, Tommy Agee, Cleon Jones ("You remember what happened to Cleon?" --the back seat of that car, those drugs, that woman...
While the MVP award was divided like the season into three roughly equal slabs-Yeager, Guerrero (five RBIS in Game 6) and Ron Cey-the "Penguin's" part will be remembered longest. Cey made noise in all of the Dodger victories, hitting three-run homers or turning bunts into double plays, but the most resounding sound was his beaning by Rich Gossage in Game 5. "Sounded like a hollow log," Goose shuddered...
...kind of a stupor, another world," Cey said two days later, grateful for a rainout and extra time to shake his dizziness. "I feel extremely fortunate to be standing here." On the first pitch, sporting a new earflap on his batting helmet, Cey lashed a single and later dribbled another before leaving with a light head and a .350 average...
Watson, Valenzuela, Nettles, Cey, Gossage. Any others...
...something else. Second Baseman Davey Lopes defined it: "Character." It may be that Dodger Third Baseman Ron Cey too has been touched with a bit of this magic. He hit a three-run homer and made a diving catch of a double-play bunt...