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Baseball was a family. Pete Rose spoke to this point. Tom Seaver also spoke of the rewards of age and perseverance. Willie Wilson, who played on one of the teams in the series, warned against drugs. The virtues of Lite Beer were extolled in commercials, and public display of
the popularity of bubble gum among baseball players demonstrated.
Losing by a run or two along the way through the Series did not seem to distress players on either team. Only when the margin of defeat in the final game grew towards 11 runs were emotions stirred to the point of overt action.
Whitey Herzog, the Cardinals’ manager, was moved to leave the dugout to accost the umpire on behalf of pitcher Joaquin Andujar, who seemed to think he had gotten bad calls on two successive pitches. Whitey should have accosted the umpire on a truly bad call he made on a play at first base, on the previous day, when his team lost by
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