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"For Lovin' Me"
by Gordon Ughtfoot
It's all over. Where did it go? All that
time spent worrying day in and day out.
Wondering why things went wrong,
rejoicing when they went right. And
now it's all over. '
Oh, sure, it will be back in the spring,
it always is. That's nice to know new
found hope and all that.
This past Thursday night in Oakland,
baseball bid a fond farewell for 1974. It
was, indeed, just the way baseball
should say adieu, with the World
Championship being won for the home
team A's.
- So now, for the third straight year,
this band of rowdy, bodacious, long
haired, bearded men have proven they
are the best in baseball. And to be quite
honest, 1 am very glad they are.
It would be easy to say the A's lucked
their way into it, that Dodgers gave it
away. Just like it would be easy to say
that Boston's Red . Sox gave their
division to Baltimore.
But it just isn't so. Oakland is a very
smart, as well as talented team. All year
long they taunted and then bullied the
rest of their division.
The sign of a great baseball team is
that it has so much talent that when one
man fails, someone else is there to pick
up the slack. Oakland is baseball's best
in this category.
Reggie Jackson was purely and
simply the best player in baseball during
the first half of the season. But when he
slipped, the A's didn't panic. Joe
Rudi, who is finally receiving the
attention he deserves, was consistently
getting the big hit to knock in the
important runs, as was Sal Bando.
When Jim "Catfish" Hunter was
going through the doldrums, Ken
Holtzman, Vida Blue, and Rollie
Fingers were blowing away opposing
batters.
So we see the talent and the
consistency. But like the guy who says,
"I've got some good news and some bad
news," here is the bad news. His name is
Charlie Finley.
During the Series, Gene Tenace
expressed his discouragement with the
A's management i.e., Finley. Tenace
felt "degraded and de-humanized" by
Finley. A World Series MVP two years
ago, Tenace said he wants out of
Oakland. Who can blame him?
The A's as a team stand for everything
opposite of what most people like in
baseball. They are fighters among
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themselves, full of dissent and loud
opinions. They dress and groom the way
they want. But really, this is normal.
Don't we fight with each other, tugging
and pulling to get whatever we, as
individuals, can get out of our society?
Well, so do the A's. We would be
ignorant to deny them the right to be
outspoken simply because many of us
don't have the chance to be that way
ourselves.
The Oakland A's, despite their bawdy
green and gold uniforms, their
dissension, and their bickering, are the
best team in baseball. No Dodger,
Oriole, or Pirate fan can say otherw ise.
For three straight years, folks have
been trying to put the A's down. It just
can't be done anymore. Reggie Jackson
said it best: "Now, finally, 1 hope we will
get the credit we deserve as a great team.
All we heard going into this Series was
how good the Dodgers were and how
inferior the American League was. I
think beating them in five instead of
seven proved something . . . that the
Oakland A's arc one of the greatest
teams in baseball history."
Catfish Hunter is the best pitcher in
baseball, Reggie Jackson the best hitter.
Bert Campaneris the best shortstop, Sal
Bando the best third baseman, Dick
Green the best second baseman. Joe
Rudi, etc., etc.
Now I have to face facts. Reality can
sometimes be hard. My Boston team
choked, and the A's are World
Champions again. Baseball season is
over. The anticipation of March and
April, the grudge of July and August,
the wild nerves of September -all arc
finished.
It was fun while it lasted, but now I
am drained. I'm beat. I don't even want
to talk about baseball anymore until
next year.
Long live the Oakland A's,
Champions of the World. So. there.
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" With each fall there comes a wave of price
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In many ways the new year begins in October. Theatre, sports, cinema,
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startling as the first hard freeze, but there are some
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