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Then he went to Princeton's famed Institute for Advanced Study, where he engaged in pure research, which was followed by a "bit of a shock": a teaching appointment at Cleveland State, where he taught a large Western civilization classes...
...Braves cavorted amid the fireworks at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium Saturday night after their 1-0 victory over the Cleveland Indians, they seemed to be shaking off the monkeys of their two recent Series failures. There was David Justice, who hit a solo homer in the sixth off Jim Poole; Tom Glavine, whose one-hit pitching over eight innings, coupled with his win in Game Two, earned him the Series MVP award; and Mark Wohlers, who dispatched the top of the vaunted Cleveland order in the ninth to give the Braves their first World Championship in 38 years...
Then there were the savagely named Braves and Indians. Cleveland won 100 games, which is astonishing in a season with only 144. What made their record even more remarkable is that during spring training in 1993, the team had to regroup after the tragic deaths of two of their pitchers, Tim Crews and Steve Olin, in a boating accident. So when the Indians raised the division championship flag after clinching the American League Central on Sept. 8, manager Mike Hargrove made sure they played the Garth Brooks song The Dance--the same song played at the memorial service...
...sides of baseball were readily apparent in the World Series. On the one hand, you had Cleveland pitcher Orel Hershiser, who was so nice that he stopped his press conference after winning Game Five because he heard someone's tape recorder click off on the table in front of him. (He found the recorder, flipped over the cassette and resumed talking.) On the other hand, Hershiser's teammate, Albert Belle, verbally assaulted nbc reporter Hannah Storm as she waited in the Indians' dugout before Game Three. (Shouldn't Albert and Hannah swap names...
TIME photographers Steve Liss and Ryan Schick have captured the spirit of this year's championship series between the Cleveland Indians and the Atlanta Braves. Now, put yourself front and center at the game with QuickTime...