Manny Machado is drawing a lot of notice in the NLCS. It might not be the kind he wants. - Washington Post
Washington Post | Manny Machado is drawing a lot of notice in the NLCS. It might not be the kind he wants. |
Washington Post | Manny Machado is drawing a lot of notice in the NLCS. It might not be the kind he wants. |
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They consider the matter closed.
In the middle of NLCS Game 4 on Tuesday night, everyone in baseball shifted focus to a team that wasn’t even playing just then as news broke that an Astros employee had been removed from a spot near the Red Sox dugout during ALCS Game 1.
To relate each of the historical events that converged in the Houston Astrodome the night of April 7, 1979, to the unique accomplishment that followed, a historian has to traverse the previous 65 years of baseball history.
April 16, 1978, was not an ideal day for baseball in St. Louis. As a sparse crowd sauntered into Busch Memorial Stadium (Busch II) that afternoon, the temperature was under 45 degrees.1 The Cardinals had been losing crowd appeal throughout the 1970s.
April 16, 1978, was not an ideal day for baseball in St. Louis. As a sparse crowd sauntered into Busch Memorial Stadium (Busch II) that afternoon, the temperature was under 45 degrees.1 The Cardinals had been losing crowd appeal throughout the 1970s.