Word: two
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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...
However, what may prove to be the crucial difference in the two is the attitude of the teams: The Reds, under fire by the Cincinnati press for the dismissal of popular Manager Sparky Anderson and the loss of living legend Peter Rose, who played out his option and signed with Philadelphia, play conservative, defensive baseball. The Pirates, on the other hand, have assumed the personality of their leader, Willie Stargell. Stargell, 38, is the heart and soul of the team. It was he who kept the younger members of the team loose all year with his clubhouse clowning...
...Two 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...
...editorial in the Journal, by Somerville Journal editor Barbara Powers, opposed August's re-election for a second two-year term in favor of any one of the other three candidates. The editorial charges August with poor management of city finances, excessive taxation, and inability or unwillingness to communicate with his constituents...
During the first hearing on pretrial motions yesterday, defense attorney Henry F. Owen III filed a motion to separate Allen's files from those of the other two defendants, a move that Owen has said he would follow by asking the court to grant Allen a separate trial...