Word: season
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pirates and Reds are perhaps the two most evenly matched teams to meet in the N.L. Championship Series, since it began in 1969. Both teams came down to the final week of the season before winning their divisions, with the Pirates actually clinching the championship on the final...
...prize nuggets, really. This season, brother Paul Scheper, a sophomore, joined Dave on the Harvard varsity. Like his brother, a conquest of super-recruiter Francis P. Locke '33, Paul moved up from fifth string running back at the start of the season to making the traveling squad. Dave's pride in his brother's achievements does not, however, extend to Paul's defection from the ranks of Notre Dame fans...
Palmer was a surprise starter to some, as the righthander, 10-6 in the regular season, had been struggling with arm problems. However, Oriole manager Weaver elected to start his three-time Cy Young Award winner over Mike Flanagan, the 23 game winner who will most likely win this year's award...
Baltimore ended the regular season with the best record in baseball, and are favored to win the league. They were never challenged in the East, and outdistanced the second place Milwaukee Brewers by eight games...
...Angels, on the other hand, outfought the Minnesota Twins and Kansas City Royals to win the Western Division in a race that lasted until the final week of the season...