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Article: The Big Plus: a World Series Without New York
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 20, 1987
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This is where a World Series should be played, in one of
baseball's smaller towns; where a whole community is seized by the
excitement of it, where there is dancing in the streets, where the
worship of hometown heroes is busting out all over, and the natives
stomp and cheer and give their hearts to their wondrous favorites.
It is always a plus for baseball, and America, too, when the
World Series does not land in New York, where it is old hat and
little more than a blip on life in that metropolis. Except when the
miracle Mets made a hoopla of it last year, the World Series in New
York has rarely been a great happening. It has been simply absorbed
into the events of a city that always ...