The most runs scored by a single team in a World Series game, with final
score, game number and year:
	   18 -- New York Yankees 18, New York Giants 4, Game 2, 1936.
	   16 -- St. Louis 16, Texas 7, Game 3, 2011.
	   16 -- San Francisco 16, Anaheim 4, Game 5, 2002.
	   16 -- New York Yankees 16, Pittsburgh 3, Game 2, 1960.
	   15 -- Arizona Diamondbacks 15, New York Yankees 2, Game 6, 2001.
	   15 -- Toronto 15, Philadelphia 14, Game 4, 1993.
	   14 -- Florida 14, Cleveland 11, Game 3, 1997.
	   14 -- Philadelphia 14, Toronto 15, Game 4, 1993.
	   14 -- Atlanta 14, Minnesota 5, Game 5, 1991.
	   13 -- Boston 13, Colorado 1, Game 1, 2007.
	   13 -- Oakland 13, San Francisco 7, Game 3, 1989.
	   13 -- St. Louis 13, Milwaukee 1, Game 6, 1982.
	   13 -- Detroit 13, St. Louis 1, Game 6, 1968.
	   13 -- New York Yankees 13, Cincinnati 5, Game 5, 1961.
	   13 -- Milwaukee 13, New York Yankees 5, Game 2, 1958.
	   13 -- Brooklyn 13, New York Yankees 8, Game 2, 1956.
	   13 -- New York Yankees 13, New York Giants 1, Game 5, 1951.
	   13 -- New York Yankees 13, New York Giants 5, Game 6, 1936.
	   13 -- New York Yankees 13, Chicago Cubs 6, Game 4, 1932.
	   13 -- New York Giants 13, New York Yankees 5, Game 3, 1921.
	   13 -- Philadelphia Athletics 13, New York Giants 2, Game 6, 1911.
	   

Published: Sunday, March 06, 2011, 4:48 AM

Most of us know real people when we see them.

Meet Maggie Zemgulis.

Maggie died last week, two days before her daughter’s wedding and what seemed like just a few short weeks after becoming ill. Services are this week.

A media assistant in The Express-Times advertising department for 21 years, Maggie was a fixture at the newspaper, in many ways the heart and soul of the place, or to wear out a cliché, just good people.

A big sports fan, Maggie loved the New York Giants and the New York Yankees. As a lifelong fan of the Philadelphia Eagles and Phillies, I was an easy target for Maggie. “How many Super Bowls have you won?” she would say.

The 2009 World Series was another classic showdown for Maggie and her two primary Philly fan targets, Managing Editor Jim Deegan and me. You’ll recall it provided an all-too-familiar disappointment in Philadelphia and a happy ending for Maggie.

I remember asking her once if she would root for the Eagles if they ever made it back to the Super Bowl.

“Never,” she said.

She was also Easton Red Rovers through-and-through. She graduated from Notre Dame, but her two children went to Easton. Each year before the Phillipsburg-Easton Thanksgiving Day football game, people talk about how the turkey always tastes better on the side of the river that comes home with a win. That was Maggie.

Gatorade came to Easton two years ago with an idea to replay a game from 1993 that ended in a tie. Players from those teams would work out, practice, suit up and hit the field on a Sunday in April. Also, legendary quarterback brothers, Peyton and Eli Manning, would be in town to serve as honorary coaches.

Maggie arrived in the newsroom several weeks before the game.

“Joe, you’ve got to get me into this game,” she said. Obviously, as a Giants fan, she wanted to see Eli, but it turns out she was an even bigger fan of Peyton.

The game became one of the biggest events this town has seen. The coverage in The Express-Times and on lehighvalleylive.com was considerable. It was a lot of work. We could find a way for Maggie to help us out. We gave her a video camera and told her to shoot anything that moves. She also helped ferry pictures from the sideline — that’s right, Maggie was on the sideline — to the pressbox where they were being sent immediately to the Web.

The game was over and the brothers were headed to a news conference inside the sports facility at Lafayette College.

“What should I do?” Maggie asked.

“Get a seat as close as you can,” I told her.

So there they were, Peyton and Eli Manning holding a news conference in Easton, and there was Maggie, front row, center.

Maggie was only 55. The timing and circumstances of her death were as difficult as can be. A lot of tears were shed in this building last week.

I thought about declaring that I would somehow find a way to root for the Yankees and Giants once in a while in memory of my friend Maggie.

But then I considered what her response would have been if I told her that was my plan.

Never.