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Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested and tried in a period that was shaken by prejudice and distrust. The United States had entered a period of post-war isolationism, and the "Red Raids" ordered by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer in 1920 were only the most obvious manifestation of a generally paranoid political climate...
...when the action shifted to Pittsburgh. Hitting, hustling and hurling like a team possessed, the Pirates swept three straight games from the heavily favored World Champion Orioles. Nevertheless, when the Series switched back to Baltimore, the Pirates had to battle more than the singing fastballs of Oriole Pitcher Jim Palmer. No team in Series history has ever lost the first two games and then come back to win the next four. The Orioles were able to keep the record intact, setting up baseball's most classic confrontation, the seventh game of a World Series...
...since Pittsburgh had a winner. After 20 years of failure, Steeler fans have had to rejoice over mediocrity instead of success. In basketball and hockey, the Penguins and Condors offer only slightly more than semi-pro success. For the past decade, Pittsburgh has been savoring the victories of Arnold Palmer and the 1960 Pirates. After 11 years of memories, victory was a little too sweet...
Weaver might be exaggerating a bit, but the Orioles do have strong fielding, plenty of power hitting-and the best crew of starting pitchers in either league: Righthanders Jim Palmer and Pat Dobson, Lefthanders Dave McNally and Mike Cuellar, all of whom won at least 20 games this season. In equaling a record set more than half a century ago,* the Orioles big four started all but 16 of Baltimore's 158 games. Palmer, McNally and Cuellar, in fact, each won 20 or more games last season. Acquired in a trade with the San Diego Padres this winter, Dobson...
...series returns tomorrow to Baltimore, where Bob Moose will hurl for Pittsburgh against the Orioles' second-game winner, Jim Palmer...