"Since the Mets surprised them, these excellents have played six playoff games and won them all; have played five World Series games and won four of them; have run off and hid from their division during the regular seasons. But they haven't beaten any great clubs. What they have beaten is expansion. They have maintained a balance, a strength, at a time when most teams have been watered down. That is your Baltimore dynasty. Now comes Pittsburgh. Like the Mets of '69, it has its skinny kid, ; it's brash young hard thrower, ; it's homer-hitter on first base, and if they put it all together and knock off the dynasty, I won't be surprised. Every once in a while a team, a fighter, a horse, comes along with no business to win, but does. I have seen Willie Mays try to sacrifice, just the other day, a slap-in-the-face reminder that things change, and the great grow old, and there always is room at the top for someone new, someone with ability, who is willing to work at it."
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, "Young Ideas: Expansion Has Watered Down Opposition," Daily News (October 8, 1971), p. C26
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