The 1978 baseball season became famous for the AL East playoff race between the Yankees and Red Sox and the resulting one-game playoff (the first in the AL since 1948), but there was a lot else going on: Pete Rose collected his 3000th hit and posted a 44-game hitting streak, Willie McCovey his 500th home run, and Gaylord Perry his 3000th strikeout; Ron Guidry (18 Ks in a game by an AL lefty) and J.R. Richard (303 Ks in a season by an NL righty) set strikeout marks; and Lyman Bostock was lost tragically just as he became a superstar. In the Fall Classic, the American League Champion New York Yankees (100-63) face off (again) against the National League Champion Los Angeles Dodgers (95-67) . . .
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