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Grackles · Wild Card · 1979

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Grackles

Seeds are a way of guessing, and this is what guessing looks like: 36-23. The Grackles were the sixth seed and spent the whole week being told what was about to happen to them. They pulled clear late, once the game had stopped being an upset and started being a result.

This story ran on the wire in Wild Card of 1979. The rest of the season is in the paper.

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