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Not this week. Canada's team, the Toronto Blue Jays, won the first true World Series in a six-act thriller with America's team, the Atlanta Braves, that proved again that baseball is a game of inches and ifs. Base runners ran backward (costing Atlanta a crucial big inning...
With one mighty swing, Dave Winfield exorcized his demons and wrought revenge upon his foremost tormentor, slugging an 11th-inning, two-run double Saturday night to lift the Toronto Blue Jays to their first World Series title.
I only have one midterm, my super hasn't found the tape on my walls, and Dave Winfield is a hero. Perhaps, just perhaps, his triumph means that we'll see a kinder, gentler George in the spring. The starting pitcher for the Blue Jays in the final game, David...
Now that the drama of the Toronto Blue Jays' World Series victory has subsided, a rather predictable argument is making the rounds of sports talk shows and bar conversations. Some observers claim it is more than mere coincidence that the first non-American team to win the World Series did...
Any such symbolism in the Blue Jays' victory is mere nonsense. Although owned by the largest Canada-based brewing company (Labatt's) and supported by Canadian fans, the Blue Jays' players are just as American and Latino as those of any other team. (In fact, the Blue Jays don't...