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The fifth game in Detroit was preceded by the biggest controversy of the Series, although it had little to do with baseball. At the height of the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement, many fans were disturbed by the version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" sung by blind Puerto Rican folk-rocker Jose Feliciano. Although Feliciano's version of the anthem was a blues interpretation-the most American of all music styles-thousands of angry television viewers flooded the Tiger Stadium telephone switchboards with complaints about his "anti-American" "desecration" of the song. "I love this country very much," the bewildered Feliciano said. "America is young now, and I thought maybe the anthem could be revived."

On the St. Louis Cardinals Stadium, the Cardinals were on the verge of a five-game World Series victory. It looked likely to happen as St. Louis led 3-2 in the fifth inning of Game 5, but in that inning, Brock inexplicably tried to score standing up on a single by Julian Javier. He was tagged out by catcher Bill Freehan, but likely would have scored had he chosen slide. The blunder negated a run that might have forced the Tigers to pinch hit for Mickey Lolich. As it was, the big lefty sta. in, and after a Tiger rally, became the wii ping pitcher in a 5-3 decision. Detroit wo Game 6, too, as Denny McLain pitched a fine game and was spurred to victory by t Tigers' ten-run third inning-an inning h lighted by a grand slam by Jim Northrup.

Bob Gibson started Game 7 for the Cardinals while Detroit pitched Mickey Lolich on two days' rest. The exhausted Lolich matched zeroes with Gibson for si: innings. "Usually my fastball sinks three c four inches, not much," Lolich said later. "When I got tired against the Cardinals, the ball sank more than ever, maybe eigh inches." He helped his own cause tremendously when, with the game still scoreless in the sixth, he picked off both Brock any Curt Flood, the Cardinals' two best base runners. The game-breaking play came it the next inning, when Detroit's NorthruF hit a ball to deep center field. Flood first misjudged it, then slipped on the wet grass as the ball flew over his head for a two-nu triple. Lolich and the Tigers were on the way to victory. "I screwed it up," Flood woi say after the game. "I don't want to make any alibis about it." The Tigers won 4-1, sweeping the last three games to capture t Series. Gibson's record streak of seven col secutive wins in the World Series was over.

The St. Louis Cardinals Schedule available had much to be proud though. Brock set or tied records for moss hits and stolen bases in a single Series an( for most steals in a Series career. Gibson. despite his Game 7 loss, had pitched magicently. But it was Lolich's Series. The bur southpaw, whose seventeen regular season victories had been overshadowed by N1cb added three more in the World Series to make it an even twenty. He became the m hero of Tigers fans, who went crazy celebrating the franchise's first championship teat in a generation. An estimated 35,000 fans packed the Detroit airport to greet the champions returning from St. Louis, ford the closure of the airport and the cancelation of nineteen flights. About 150,000 in took to the streets, looting stores and thrc ing ticker tape in the wildest celebration a one had seen since the end of World War II.