[analphilosopher] Keith Burgess-Jackson: Twenty Years Ago

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Posted by Keith Burgess-Jackson:
Twenty Years Ago
http://www.analphilosopher.com/posts/1128720208.shtml


   10-7-85 . . . The baseball season is over. A year ago, the [Detroit]
   Tigers were 104-58; this year, they finished at 84-77, some nineteen
   and a half games worse. I kept waiting for the Tigers to get hot this
   year, but they never did. Whenever the team won three or four games in
   a row, it seemed that Toronto did the same. The Blue Jays had a
   remarkable season. And so now, with the regular season over, it=E2s on
   to the playoffs. I predict that Toronto will defeat Kansas City [the
   Royals] in six games [Kansas City won in seven], St. Louis [the
   Cardinals] will defeat Los Angeles [the Dodgers] in seven games [St
   Louis won in six], and the Cardinals will win their second world
   championship in four years by beating the Blue Jays in seven games
   [Kansas City beat St Louis in seven games]. Wade Boggs and Willie
   McGee, incidentally, won their respective batting championships, while
   Darrell Evans of the Tigers, at age thirty-eight, led all major-league
   players in home runs with forty. Who says that old-timers can=E2t play?