These are the days, these are the nights the baseball players live for.

That they really are, Jack, because that's what you start out in your career to do to play in the World Series.

That's what you have spring training for.

You prepare the front office, the management, the coaches, the players, it all boils down to three days in cold Montreal.

The temperature is 46 degrees here at game time

and a predicted low of 35.

And the winds are up to 20 miles an hour

and they're blowing straight out toward right.

But even the left-handed batters

are really going to have to pull the ball down the line

in order to get the ball out of this ballpark this evening.

We'll be back with the starting lineups and then the play-by-play of this crucial contest in just one minute.

Steve Rogers, the starting pitcher from Montreal, is ready to go.

He's in the dugout. The ex-folls will be taking the field in a moment.

Bob Forge is still warming up for the Cardinals, and here's Mike Shannon with the starting

lineup. Dubrock leads it off and left field for the car.

Good size, more than it's second in the Cardinal lineup, and he'll play second base.

And before we go any further, we'll have the national anthems of both ball clubs.

For the Cardinals,

Lou Brock leads it off, he's in left field.

Touch Seymour's second base.

Reggie Smith and right field,

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