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along with a big lead. Then the A’s start to hit and Hack Wilson misjudges a fly in center field and the A’s has got 10 runs in one inning. They win the game and they win the Series. I seen a lot of Series, beginning with that one in 1931 and coming right down to the Yanks and Phillies (1950) and Yanks and Giants (1951), when I did the television pre-game show, and I’d never say the Series was over until it was over. A guy can strike out four times today and knock the ball out of the park tomor¬ row, and that goes for the teams, too. Another thing I’d like to straighten out is this idea of heroes and goats in the World Series. They may be heroes in the Series, but they ain’t no goats. You take some great player, leads the league in everything, and he does everything right in the Series, except one thing. Maybe he should of run, and he didn’t. Or maybe he should of slud, and he didn’t. So they tag him the goat. Why, those things are just part of the game. They happen every day during the season, and nobody thinks anything about it. You can take my word for it, they ain’t any goats in the World Series. I seen a lot of baseball doing radio and television the last couple of years. Last year, I travel about 250,000 miles doing both and this year I travel about 150,000 miles just doing television. It looks to me like television is doing a lot to make new fans for baseball. The other day I went down in Ar¬ kansas, where I was born, and I’m a son of a buck if they didn’t have television. People can see big league games now that never could before. And you’ll see that the teams that is doing the best, on the field and at the box office, is the teams that is doing the most television. I’ll bet there will be a day when the whole world will have baseball, just because of TV bringing it to them. But talking about the World Series, I’ll tell you what I like even better than the baseball. It’s the crowd and the excitement, and all them pennants flapping and the introductions and all that stuff. That’s what makes it a World Series, not just the baseball. Biggest thrill I ever got in baseball was the first game of the 1934 World Series. We’re all out there on the field at Briggs Stadium, then that whole big crowd gets to its feet. There’s a couple of quiet minutes, and then that band starts playing “The Star-Spangled Banner.” That was the big thrill of the World Series. After that, it was just a ball game. (Dizzy win it, 8 to 3).