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...were the well-muscled Cincinnati Redlegs, with the best record (99 wins, 63 losses) and some of the mightiest hitters in the league. Up against the Big Red Machine stumbled the New York Mets, living proof that baseball is still a game of inches. Two months ago, Manager Yogi Berra was within inches of losing his job again (the New York Yankees dumped him in 1964) as the Mets floundered in the Eastern Division cellar, dispirited and haunted by injuries. After a spectacular September drive, the team won the division title by inches on the last day of the season...
Preparing to face the A's in the World Series, the Mets seemed to be asking too much: nothing less than Miracle III. Oakland has timely hitting, strong arms and bench strength. Manager Berra ("I'd rather be lucky than good") and his team have faith and a good memory. The Mets clearly remember 1969, when rational men said that faith was not enough...
Today, however, the Crimson will encounter a team that looks as little like UMass, B.U., and Columbia as Yogi Berra looks like Derek Bok. Cornell, probably the strongest team in the Ivies, will be the first real test of the Crimson's offensive and defensive capacities...
...Sedecki came on to pitch for the Mets in the ninth, but was relieved by Tug McGraw as the A's threatened with two men on base. McGraw lasted to the tenth, when he too was lifted by Berra for a pinch hitter...
...that must have seemed fairly mountainous in size. They were twelve games back in July and as much as three and a half back with as little as ten days left to play. There were rumblings when the Mets were floundering in last place that manager Yogi Berra would be axed, perhaps before the end of the season. So, in other words, the Mets are so much of a miracle this year that even they must be asking themselves what they are doing in the Series...