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...even by would-be Mondale supporters was, "He's going to lose, so what's the use?" And more than that, they deemed Mondale himself a loser--a rebel without a cause. Supporting the Cubs is one thing, supporting Mondale something else altogether. The Cubs may have lost the pennant, but they at least overwhelmed five other teams to get there. It was as if Mondale had made it to the World Series without even winning the Pennant. He was destined for disaster long before San Francisco...
DIED. Walter Alston, 72, calm, temper-cooling, pennant-collecting manager who from 1954 to 1976 guided the Dodgers, in Brooklyn and then in Los Angeles, to seven National League titles and four World Championships; of heart disease; in Oxford, Ohio, near the sharecropper's farm where he was born. Alston, who struck out in his only major league turn at bat in 1936, won more than 2,000 regular-season games. During his career he steadied such future Hall of Fame members as Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale, and was named to the Hall himself...
This is the season that the Cubs, 39 years between pennant winners, 76 years removed from their most recent world title, played with people's hearts into October. The crash of 1969 was finally put behind. Before leading off in the first game with San Diego, Centerfielder Bobby Dernier consulted Shortstop Larry Bowa. "When do the butterflies go away?" he wondered. "After the first pitch," Bowa replied, so Dernier hit the second pitch over the leftfield wall. Speeding from first to third on an infield out, he eventually scored the opening run in Game 2 as well. Then...
...onstage for them now. With one Royal on and two outs in the taut eighth inning of matching three-hitters, Evans dived for a ball at first base and then beat Willie Wilson in a race to secure Milt Wilcox's 1-0 victory, which won the pennant...
Prevailing by some ten games in the National League's West Division, the Padres were denied the sensation of a pennant race. This helps explain the town's relative calm so far, though it is a relatively calm town, "more Midwestern in principle than Los Angeles," according to Garvey. Three players, including Pitching Ace Eric Show, have publicly embraced the John Birch Society without encountering much local disapproval. Also it was a summer of mean news in San Diego: 21 people massacred at the San Ysidro McDonald's, two police officers killed in a quiet park...