Word: underdogism
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...saved the game from imminent demise, pulling together a scrappy and inspirational team of rookies, recovering drug addicts and itinerant veterans to claim the World Series crown, with the illness of Yankee manager Joe Torre's brother Frank providing a dramatic subplot. I have no doubt that the next underdog to win a World Series, the next player to break some hallowed mark, will be duly hailed as the game's newest savior...
...Sosa fans were the fans of the underdog; he was black, he was Dominican, and he was pill-free. He had the little body (by comparison) and the big smile. Teddy-bear-on-the-inside or not, McGwire was the hulk. The one with the glower. The one who was supposed to break Maris's record, if you could say that about anyone, and in that way it turned out right. Who but McGwire, after all, could not just pass Maris, not just leave the pesky Sosa behind, but keep piling on the homers until he hit a nice round...
Carolyn A. Cassidy '99, a co-producer of the show, described it as a political tale focusing on an election battle between a corrupt political machine boss and a moral underdog...
TIGHT SPOT Presidential ambitions go up in smoke in 1980 after he loses re-election as Governor to an underdog...
...Sure, it's un-American not to back the underdog, but even the hardworking, muttily named Utah Jazz (did Satchmo summer in Salt Lake?), with its working-class Mailman and great white hopes, couldn't drag us away from Jordan's charm. For a spasm of a second last month, it seemed O.K. if Larry Bird's Pacers won the conference championship--there was mythological resonance to the protagonist's being felled by a warrior ghost--but by Game 7, we were right back in our proper seats behind Jordan. We wanted one more hit of Jordan's hyperintensity...