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Quarrymen · Wild Card · 1982

The sixth seed puts out the Cannoneers

Chip Nutbeam, hot take

Quarrymen

Seeds are a way of guessing, and this is what guessing looks like: 23-20. The Quarrymen were the sixth seed and spent the whole week being told what was about to happen to them. It went to the last possession, which is the only way this was ever going to go.

This story ran on the wire in Wild Card of 1982. The rest of the season is in the paper.

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