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By EUGENE J. McCARTHY
Rappahannock News contributing writer
The World Series, just finished, was played not on grass, nor on turf — real or artificial — but on a real rug, made of real synthetic fibers. Turf, in any case, is not a word to be associated with baseball. Turf is more for horse racing, especially in England, and for football.
The most “real” thing in the series was the rug. What was played upon it was and should have been called “artificial baseball,” a combination of three-cushion billiards, jai-a-lai and pinball.
In the artificial game, bunts — or attempted bunts — turned into hard grounders and even into line drives. Ground balls that on grass would
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