Swinging '73 by Matthew Silverman

Author:Matthew Silverman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 2013-04-02T04:00:00+00:00

The common perception is that the National League East was ridiculously mediocre for all of 1973, and the Pirates couldn’t hold a lead they’d maintained for months. Not true. At the end of June, the Cubs had the second best record in the game at 47-31 and had the largest lead of any team in baseball’s four divisions: 8½ games ahead of the Cardinals. (The 31-39 Mets were last, 12½ games back, though their .443 winning percentage was almost 80 percentage points higher than any other cellar dweller in any other division.)

St. Louis had its own remarkable comeback in ’73. By the All-Star break on July 22, the Cardinals, who lost 12 of 13 to start the year and reached a nadir of 15 games below .500, had already caught the Cubs. The Cards went 26 games over .500 between May 14 and August 5. On the latter date, the standings looked like this:

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