The Winning Team papers are filled with stories of the drinking problems of Alex. We are now taken to a baseball game where Alex fields a ball and basically throws it away to the first basemen. He is removed from the game.<br> Alex is next shown where drinking seems to be his new pastime. We see him as he stumbles down an alley and then falls as he reaches the end. he is removed from the cubs and sent to a team called the "House of David." All this time his wife is trying to find him because she lost track of where
Running out the clock kick to a contest, creating the chance for a turnover. In basketball game clock stops when the ball is dead and runs when it is live. Running out the clock was a major problem in the early days of the NBA. Often, once a team grabbed the lead, they would spend the remainder of the game just passing the ball back and forth, in what was called stall ball. The only hope for the other team was to commit fouls and to score on free throws. The worst example was a 1950 game with a final score of 19-18. Another