(This story first appeared in the Daily News on August 11, 1980. It remains an account of the quintessential Dallas Green tirade. On the morning this appeared in the paper, the Phillies were in third place in the National League East, six games behind both the Pirates and Expos. We all know what happened after that.)
PITTSBURGH — The voice filled the corridor outside the visitors' locker room, crashing off the concrete walls and gushing through the narrow hallway like flood water pouring through a sewer pipe.
The voice had the cold, sharp edge of a rattled sabre.