Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former Cincinnati paper salesman who now raises Arabian horses in the Mount Orab area, Lodwick became interested in education first as president of the local school board and then as an elementary-school teacher. He recalls...
...have they? With last week's pennant playoffs, baseball suddenly recaptured so much suspense and emotion that Ring Lardner could not have written a better script. Winners of the National League's Western Division were the well-muscled Cincinnati Redlegs, with the best record (99 wins, 63 losses) and some of the mightiest hitters in the league. Up against the Big Red Machine stumbled the New York Mets, living proof that baseball is still a game of inches. Two months ago, Manager Yogi Berra was within inches of losing his job again (the New York Yankees dumped...
...sore-shouldered Tom Seaver, held the Midwestern maulers to only eight runs in the five games. The asthenic Met batters, none of whom finished the regular season above .300, banged out a hearty 23 runs. Met Shortstop Bud Harrelson (155 Ibs.) miraculously escaped maiming when his scuffle with Cincinnati's Pete Rose (189 Ibs.) blossomed into the best-watched brouhaha since the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Rose later escaped injury at the hands of garbage-throwing Mets fans...
While New York was outlasting Cincinnati, the 1972 World Champion Oakland Athletics were having their own tense five-game contest with the Baltimore Orioles in the American League playoffs. When the Orioles knocked out Oakland Ace Vida Blue (20-9) early in the first game and won it 6-0, there was hope in Baltimore that the home team's strong pitching staff, starring Jim Palmer (22-9), would prevail over Oakland's aces. But then came Oakland's other stone walls, Ken Holtzman and Jim ("Catfish") Hunter. They and Reliever Rollie Fingers stood their ground...
They won a Division no one cared enough to win, but the Mets played good end-of-the-season baseball, money ball. And they never seemed to know when they were playing over their heads. They beat Cincinnati on pitching, momentum and the fans...