Word: mcgraw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium looked like a banana republic during the final game. More than 600 policemen -some mounted on horseback, others hauling on the leashes of snarling attack dogs-surrounded the field during the final inning. With 65,838 fans thus held at bay, Relief Pitcher Tug McGraw threw a third-strike pitch past Royals' Outfielder Willie Wilson with the bases loaded for the last out, and the title belonged to Manager Dallas Green's team...
...only the 40th time in 453 World Series games, play went into extra innings. With a full house of noisy fans on their feet for the duration of the tenth inning, the Royals pushed across the winning run at last. With two men on base, Philadelphia Relief Pitcher Tug McGraw walked Brett, preferring to pitch to First Baseman Willie Aikens. Bad move. Aikens, who earlier had become the second player in history to hit two home runs in his first World...
...next generation. This is fine in theory, but the actual how-to-do-it has remained a puzzle. Now the first real guide to nonsexist child raising has appeared: Letty Cottin Pogrebin's innovative and exhaustive Growing Up Free: Raising Your Child in the 80's (McGraw-Hill; $15.95). Even the eminent Dr. Benjamin Spock, who invented modern parenting, describes the book as "essential" for rearing liberated children...
Although the game belonged to the Phillies, the Royals threatened in the eighth and ninth when McGraw loaded the bases twice. What saved the Phillies was pure hustle and what McGraw called "reaching back to find some extra...
...McGraw's last pitch of the game, a strikeout pitch, sent the Royals back to Kansas City never having won a world series and left the Phillies in temporary heaven in the City of Brotherly Love where firecrackers ripped through the sky. In the words of one loyal fan's banner, an entire city was assured that "this ain't Mudville...