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...Philadelphia Phillies, boosted by the pitching of Steve Carlton and Tug McGraw and the hitting of Mike Schmidt, won the first world championship of their 98-year history last night, beating the Kansas City Royals 4-1 in the sixth game of the World Series...
...Royals attempted a eighth inning comeback, but it was too little and too late. George Brett led off with a double and Aikens produced his second two-run shot of the night, but indomitable fireman Tug McGraw came on to retire the rest of the side and held on in the next frame to give Philadelphia its first series game victory since...
Forsch had been locked in a tight duel with Steve Carlton, ace of the Phillies' staff, but after Luzinski's homer gave Philadelphia the lead, it fell to relief ace Tug McGraw to nail down the victory...
...Friday night was quiet. Fifty thousand fans filed out of Olympic Stadium, victims of a one-man wrecking crew named Mike Schmidt. The Philadelphia slugger had knocked home both runs of a 2-1 victory, one with a sacrifice fly and one with a homer. Frank Edwin "Tug" McGraw, an erratic, lefthanded screwballer who had singlehandedly willed the New York Mets to the National League pennant in 1973, came on to strike out five men in relief, and suddenly the Expos were one game en arriere and one game away from elimination...
...convergent lines. Through the role, he has inherited the Kennedy legend. In marrying a Hollywood superstar, he became a consort Arthur to Elizabeth Taylor's hot-copy Guenevere. To this moment, he indisputably speaks the King's English, something that still makes every closet colonial in America tug his forelock. Burton will make Camelot prosper, but even he, with his nimble intelligence, could scarcely impart any logic to the show. The story is a love triangle; yet, the nature of that love is never articulated. Does Queen Guenevere (Christine Ebersole) love King Arthur (Burton) for the sweet reasonableness...