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- THE WEEK, Page 22SOCIETYWow, Canada!
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- Toronto brings a World Series triumph to the Great White North
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- A U.S. visitor to Canada asked a native what item he might
- bring home that would represent the Canadian character. The
- reply: "An inferiority complex."
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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); umps went myopic
- (depriving the Jays of the first Series triple play in 72
- years). The Braves' batters mostly smacked screamers into
- grateful Toronto gloves. Atlanta embarrassed no Jays hurler
- except Jack Morris, the $10 million mercenary who lost both his
- starts.
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- Two other first-year Jays, pitcher David Cone and ageless
- slugger Dave Winfield, brought Toronto a 11-inning 4-3 victory
- in the finale. And while Atlanta's pennant flew at half-staff,
- Canada's flag was proudly unfurled right side up. Nice guys
- finish first, eh?
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