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Rain drenched Boston on a particular Saturday in the heat of the pennant race, but I sat through nearly seven hours of baseball in Fenway Park to watch my teams surrender a four-run lead in the ninth inning then lose in the tenth. Afterwards, I washed down the defeat with rancid coffee, several perusals of the damp and dismal scorecard, and the lofty notion that I had, after all, witnessed a game that would slosh itself into history--perhaps as the famous Rain Game...
...more than 100 games this year. The LA starting lineup reads like an All-Star roster for the year 1974. Steve Garvey batted .312 as he collected 200 hits and 21 home runs. Jim Wynn led the team in homers (32) and helped power the Dodgers to the NL pennant. Bill Russell, the write-in All-Star at short, and Davey Lopes carried the big bats for LA down the stretch at the end of summer...
...shame to waste such baseball talent in a city like Baltimore. The Orioles have a hard time attracting fans to the park, even during a close division race. "Pennant fever is just a common cold in Baltimore," one Bosox fan who was seeing orange muttered recently...
...American League crown. Despite the fact that Baltimore is the hottest team in baseball, winning 28 of its last 34 games (as an Oriole lover who lives down the hall from me reminds me 14 times daily), I have to go with the Athletics to win the pennant. If Baltimore wins, I would have to pull for the National League to win the World Series for the first time since...
Many of the vendors on those waning days of the pennant race contented themselves with the knowledge that they had the solidarity and the guts to walkout on one of the biggest nights of the season and they they really stood up to the employer and screamed right into the boss's face. But when the Phillies come north from Florida next spring, and the same conditions exist as last year, that Saturday night strike will be of little consolation...