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Word: exposed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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It is a rare treat when a pennant race is decided by head-to-head competition. Friday morning, the Philadelphia Phillies arrived in Montreal with precisely the same record as Les Expos for a three-game showdown to close the regular season.

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Tears of a Town | 10/7/1980 | See Source »

By Friday evening, the city was filled. Seedy motels, some of which hadn't hosted a traveler since the Olympics, dusted off "No Vacancy" signs. Expos emblems jammed the streets, the bars, the restaurants; frenzied people acted out the fevered, pulsating madness only a pennant race can generate.

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Tears of a Town | 10/7/1980 | See Source »

But Friday night was quiet. Fifty thousand fans filed out of Olympic Stadium, victims of a one-man wrecking crew named Mike Schmidt. The Philadelphia slugger had knocked home both runs of a 2-1 victory, one with a sacrifice fly and one with a homer. Frank Edwin "Tug" McGraw...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Tears of a Town | 10/7/1980 | See Source »

The rain continued. 2:15 passed, and then 3:15 and 4:15. The scoreboard amused the faithful with an Expos trivia quiz ("Non. c'est Mack Jones"). Rogers and Christenson sat.

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Tears of a Town | 10/7/1980 | See Source »

Then, magically, the rain stopped. After a three-hour delay, the yellow tarpaulin was swept off the field and the game began. For television, faced with a disruption of its prime-time schedule, it was a nuisance. For Les Expos, the season.

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Tears of a Town | 10/7/1980 | See Source »

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