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Article: In one regard, the Blue Jays have put Canada in a united state
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 16, 1992
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CopyrightCopyright 1992 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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It was such a typically American, Teddy Rooseveltish thing to do
back in 1903.
You take the championship of a purely American game (yeah, yeah,
yeah, it has undeniably British ancestry, but let's not get overly
technical here), stage a championship match between representatives
of your two best professional leagues and call it a World Series.
The World Cup. Now that's a real global championship. But World
Series? They won't be glued to the TVs and radios in downtown
Athens. The sports talk shows in Ulan Bator won't be evaluating how
much losing the DH will hurt the Blue Jays.
World Series?
Lord, what conceit.
But now, 89 years after the fact, we will finally have something
more closely ...