data.3news-bydate.test.rec.sport.baseball.104563 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Warren Usui)
Subject: Re: The 1964 Phillies: deja vu?
Keywords: Phillies
Organization: Locus Computing Corporation, Los Angeles, California
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In article [email protected] (Eric Smith) writes:
>Yeah, the Phillies played over their heads almost the whole year,
>but it all caught up to them in one 10-game streak. I *am* as old as
>1964 (man!) and I was a big Phillies fan at the time (age 13).
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>the Dodgers or somebody else finish two games back? That has to be
>one of the closest last minute scrambles ever.
Since I was born in the late Pleistocene, I too remember 1964. That year,
the Dodgers were several games out of first and I think finished sixth in the
league. This was kind of odd because they won the World Series both the
previous year and the following year.
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Warren Usui
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