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Said Keith Hernandez, the St. Louis first baseman, as he came off the field after that interminable sixth game: "I'll tell you how long the game was. I was 28 when it started, and I'm 29 now." It was after midnight, his birthday. When Hernandez opened the series batting 0 for 15, it put people in mind of another forceful first baseman, the late Gil Hodges, who went 0 for 21 for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1952 series. But Hernandez stoically declared, "You have to have a strong mind to play baseball." He got seven...
...child's eyes, the Cardinals' somersaulting shortstop, Ozzie Smith, said happily, "As a kid, you know how your pressure dream is always the seventh game of the World Series? The bases are loaded, two out, here's the pitch..." Maybe creaking a little from new age, Hernandez picked up Smith's thought and went on less cheerfully: "As a kid, that's right. But then you mature and start thinking like a man, and boyish dreams go away. Big-league ballplayers are mostly men, normal men with insecurities, doubts and weaknesses, not the gods...
Scoring two unearned runs after a Keith Hernandez error the Brewers made it 3-0 in the fourth with Molitor driving in the run on a broken bat single. From there, the runs just kept on coming...
...Phil Niekro survived two Cardinal uprisings in his 4-1-3 innings of shutout ball. Niekro escaped a two-out, bases loaded jam in the first when he retired George Hendrick on a fly ball. Lonnie Smith tripled with two down in the third, but Niekro got Keith Hernandez on a grounder to end the threat...
...Volvo station wagon and sent off for a spin into irrelevancy. In fact, minority women may still be more concerned with problems of employment and discrimination than with the comparatively rarefied legalities of a constitutional amendment. But even their priority issues, in the words of former NOW President Aileen Hernandez, "flow out of the ERA." Adds Ruth Mandel, director of the Center for the American Woman and Politics at Rutgers University: "I'd be willing to bet that there is only a small minority of families in the U.S. that has not had to deal over the past ten years...