Article: Experience Gives Blue Jays Edge

MILWAUKEE Comparing baseball teams from statistics sheets is like judging actors from reading the playbill biographies. You might think you know who is good, but the glare of the spotlight does funny things to actors and baseball players.

Some it wakes up. Some it blinds.

There is no column for personality on a baseball statistics sheet. Some still flub their lines when they walk on the big stage of the postseason, no matter how good their credits.

Some have that flair for the dramatic. With the World (Series) as his stage, Reggie Jackson became known as "Mr. October."

Which brings us to this October and the White Sox-Blue Jays American League playoffs starting Tuesday at Comiskey ...

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