Step 1 : Introduction to the question "Which horse won the Triple Crown on this day in 1973?"
...Matthias Sindelar wasn’t merely a gifted player. He was quite literally a game-changer. His cerebral, complex style of play, less direct and forceful than many of his contemporaries, altered the way people saw football. It’s for this reason that he was equally beloved by both blue collar fans and the chin-stroking, café-dwelling intellectuals of Europe. Many knew him as the “Paper Man” because of his misleadingly slight and flimsy build, while some went so far as to call him the Mozart of football. One onlooker, dazzled by Sindelar’s dribbling skills, said he played football the way “a grandmaster played chess”. Journalists swooned and wrote gushing odes, with one describing how “Sindelar's shot hit the back of the net like the perfect punch-line, the ending that made it possible to understand and appreciate the perfect composition of the story, the crowning of which it represented.”
