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Third Base--Pete Rose is Charlie Hustle, the MVP of the '75 Series and the 1976 league leader in hits, runs and doubles. Mike Schmidt has led the majors in home runs for three straight years, and he is the best fielding third baseman in the game. I like Schmidt, but you call...
...Phillies must be favored to win games One and Four. Jim Lonborg has been there before, but the Reds should jump on Philadelphia's third starter -- Jim Kaat, Tom Underwood or Larry Christenson. For the Reds, lefty fireballer Don Gullett is allegedly in top form; but the Schmidt-Luzinski-Allen power block loves southpaw fastball pitchers. Rookie Pat Zachry (2.74 ERA), Fred Norman and Gary Nolan are all solid. Give the edge to Philadelphia here...
...then when those young phenoms failed us, I would scurry to the back pages of The Sporting News and read about how the Phillies' farm clubs were doing in Eugene and Reading. There was plenty of scuttlebutt before games: "How about that Luzinski tearing up the Double A? Schmidt looks like a good prospect, hitting .300 for Pulaski. Maybe they'll make the difference next year...
Projections yesterday indicated that the 46-seat majority of Mr. Schmidt's Social Democratic Party and its governing coalition partner, the Free Democratic Party, would shrink in the lower house of the German parliament by only six to ten seats, considerably less of a loss than had been expected...
Karl W. Deutsch, Stanfield Professor of International Peace, said yesterday he is "very glad that the Schmidt government is retaining power. No matter what misgivings others have, the effort by Mr. Kohl's party to have a tougher anti-Communist line in mid-Europe could only have increased tensions among the European countries...