What in the wide, wide world of sports is going on here ...
• This year’s Angels team has much in common with the 1978 team. Like this year’s team, the ’78 team had enough character to overcome all sorts of problems to become a contender and set up what would be a great ’79. And like this year’s team, the ’78 team had plenty of dramatic wins down the stretch.
• That ’78 team, however, had to endure the worst tragedy in the history of a franchise that has had too many of them.