Word: game
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Money Game, 'Adam Smith...
With four games of the 1968 World Series out of the way, the Las Vegas bookmakers were beginning to count their winnings. They had been quoting 17-to-10 odds on the St. Louis Cardinals, and the world champions were winning in a walk. They had Detroit's Tigers down, three games to one, and St. Louis' peerless pitcher Bob Gibson had humiliated Detroit's 31-game winner, Denny McLain, not once, but twice. Relaxed and confident, Gibson was ready to pitch again, if necessary, in the best-of-seven Series...
Winner Take All. But by the middle of the fifth game, the Tigers looked like sure losers. Portly Mickey Lolich, their only Series winner, was laboring on the short end of a 3-2 score; he seemed ready to take the long walk to the showers when he got an unexpected reprieve from the Cards' Lou Brock, justly famed as the National League's most expert baserunner. Heading for home with a sure run, Brock unaccountably failed to slide under the high, late throw. He came in standing up, crashed into Catcher Bill Freehan and was tagged easily...
Back to St. Louis went the Series. And McLain wasted little time vindicating himself; he held the Cards to nine hits and one run while the fired-up Tigers pummeled seven St. Louis pitchers for 13 runs. Suddenly, it was game No. 7-Gibson v. Lolich, winner take...
Eliot House made it four in a row by shutting out Quincy House 5-0. The game was scoreless until, with 30 seconds to go in the first half, Eliot scored on a breakaway. Quincy fullback Al Evans explained that although Quincy was outshooting its opponents, the few Eliot shots "just seemed to find a way into the goal every time...