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Carter's press secretary Jody Powell said in an interview with The Crimson yesterday morning that he "cannot imagine" the former governor of Georgia getting involved in a "local dispute" like the upcoming series between the Cincinnati Reds and the New York Yankees, who clinched the American League pennant Thursday night...
Well, the Yankees finally did it. The Bombers bought the pennant. And now we are going to be subjected to the biggest verbal onslaught about the New York Yankees dynasty since the one-year Knicks dynasty...
Yankee Year. Meanwhile, back in the stands, where score cards, not legal briefs, are what matter, baseball was bigger than ever. Attendance was up 5% despite the absence of rousing pennant races. Happiness, as usual, was a warm winner. The World Champion Reds rolled methodically through their season, clinching their fifth division title in seven years. For the Reds, titles are so routine, and the dressing room after ward was so subdued, that Presider Robert Howsam had to splash champagne himself. Said he: "Some of these guys are acting too dignified...
...refurbished Yankee Stadium, a $100 million worth of it, the Bronx Boy replaced the Mets as New York's darlings. The Yankees hit the top of their division in May and stayed there as Boston tumbled from 1975's glory to miserable fourth place. The only true pennant race was in the American League West, where the young Kansas City Royals tottered down to the final days before edging out the owner-savaged but still savvy Oakland...
Instead, I will tell you how I felt. I thought to myself: "This bum had better bring in a pennant. New York has enough crooks, skunks and incompetents running it without the Yankees bringing in another. I haven't enjoyed watching Bill Monboquette and Joe Verbanic playing terrible baseball for the last dozen years. I want to see a World Series...