Word: postseason
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which time, according to an old but questionable tradition, pennant races are decided. (Durocher Dodgers, better at the start than in the stretch, have been first on the Fourth five years out of eight.) They stayed on top, and lost to a better team, the Cardinals, only after a postseason playoff. To do it, Durocher used no less than four first basemen, four second basemen, eight third basemen, nine outfielders, four catchers, and an endless parade of pitchers. It was a remarkable performance, but by Durocher's own standards he was no hero in Flatbush; he lost the championship...
That done, Ohio State began its final push (with support from Iowa, Purdue, Northwestern) in a campaign to crack the Big Nine rule against postseason games. This week, Conference representatives meeting in Chicago said no, this was not the year to break the 24-year-old rule. The Big Nine champs would stay home on New Year's Day, and unbeaten, once-tied Tennessee would doubtless make the trip to Pasadena...
...twinges of regret to the golden years from 1926 to 1936, when Arturo Toscanini was the fabulous war lord of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, had no apprehensions. Sold out, the orchestra office had to return $25,000 in checks to applicants who wanted seats for the two-week postseason Beethoven festival at Carnegie Hall with wiry, white-haloed Maestro Toscanini conducting...
...Bruins were the annual Stanley Cup play-offs - one of the silliest competitions in all professional sport. Emblematic of the world's professional championship, the Stanley Cup is awarded, not to the winner of the National Hockey League's season schedule, but to the winner of a postseason, round-robin tourney between the league's top six teams. In other words, the regular season's play does nothing but eliminate one team (the seventh). Any team, even the lowest-ranking, stands to win the playoffs. But even the addicts wanted heavy odds against the potent Bruins...