Word: gaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consequences of such fealty to commerce were apparent from the first game. It was postponed by chilly rain, and a crew of teen-agers was pressed into mopping up Baltimore's Memorial Stadium with towels. Despite that effort, the Orioles and the Pirates committed three errors each. Pirate Second Baseman Phil Garner let in the winning runs in the first inning when he tossed a simple double-play throw clear into left field...
Mike Flanagan (23-9) was beaten 7-1 in the fifth game, three-time Cy Young Winner Jim Palmer lost 4-0 in the sixth, and Scott McGregor (13-6) was beaten in the final game 4-1. Over that span, Baltimore managed 17 hits, but seldom at the right time. The Orioles had a chance to salvage the Series in the last game when they loaded the bases in the eighth inning; not a run scored...
Through it all, there was Stargell. He knocked home four runs in the Pirates' decisive three-game streak, and in the final contest hit a single, two doubles and the towering two-run homer that guaranteed the champagne. When it was over, the slugger who has hit 464 home runs in his 18-year major league career considered his moment and deemed another day happier still. "When I signed with the Pirates in 1959," said Pops, the man who still plays ball for fun two decades later, "they gave me a $1,500 bonus and $175 a month...
...gauged by a quotient, the humidity by a ratio, the pollen by its count, and the trends of birth, death, marriage and divorce by rates. In this epoch of runaway demographics, society is as often described and analyzed with statistics as with words. Politics seems more and more a game played with percentages turned up by pollsters, and economics a learned babble of ciphers and indexes that few people can translate and apparently nobody can control. Modern civilization, in sum, has begun to resemble an interminable arithmetic class in which, as Carl Sandburg put it, "numbers fly like pigeons...
...long trek from the days of one, two, three, many. It can be taken as a symptom of exuberant joy in the quantity and multiplicity of things. Still, the dizzy acceptance of those truly incomprehensible figures might also be construed as a vicarious variation of the old Faustian game: the yearning to know the unknowable...