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Bowie Kuhn, the Commissioner of Baseball, must have been a happy man last week. For the first time in four years, the World Series was not a stage for Kuhn's No. 1 nemesis, A's Owner Charlie Finley, and Oakland's annual post-season melodrama of clubhouse brawls and management-player disputes. Instead, baseball's show of shows was a tight, tense struggle between the Boston Red Sox and Cincinnati Reds. It even featured an old-fashioned flap over an umpire's call and an indeterminably aged Cuban pitcher with a penchant for cigars...
...long. The Atlantic Coast Conference fluked its way to national attention last March behind the improbable coaching of Norm Sloane and the big-city talents in-his North Carolina State roster. The Wolfpack, with their Tarheel and Terrapin brethren from Chapel Hill and College Park, returned to more plausible post-season performances this go round; they all lost...
...nominations add to the post-season laurels that both players have won, as each has already been selected to the first team All-Ivy and All-America squads...
...certainly should be favored against Brown, but Yale will be tough," Lee said. "Besides," the Crimson mentor added, "we would like to place at least one of our boys in the Easterns." "The Easterns" is a post-season tournament, open to every college on the East coast, to determine individual seeds in the national tournament...
...sacred battle, and in that sense he is a metaphor, of sorts, for the Harvard community, which rarely whips itself into a frenzy about any "big game." Matthews does not publish brochures touting his prospective All-Americans, as some schools do to garner votes for their stars in post-season honors races ("I'd be fired if I did!" he says), and he does not sit in on interviews with Harvard players to gently steer the conversation away from delicate areas. He thinks the primary1