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- <title>
- Oct. 26, 1992: The First Real World Series
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Oct. 26, 1992 The Iceman's Secrets
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 24
- SOCIETY
- The First Real World Series
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- <p>A dramatic finish brings Atlanta and Toronto to an international
- finale
- </p>
- <p> Baseball needed a lift. The season had been one long raspy
- bore, both on the field (with its dearth of thrilling pennant
- races) and off (with the resignation of contentious commissioner
- Fay Vincent). But many middling fans think of baseball as the
- October game. All might be redeemed if the league-championship
- series could provide an emotional home run.
- </p>
- <p> Even sweeter, for the Atlanta Braves, was a seventh-game,
- ninth-inning single by anonymous Francisco Cabrera, the answer
- to many a bar bet in the next century. Sid Bream chugged toward
- home plate and slid in under the catcher's tag. In a
- melodramatic rally that matched Bobby Thomson's "shot heard
- around the world" for the New York Giants in 1951, the Braves
- edged the Pittsburgh Pirates to send the team with baseball's
- best recent record home heartbroken for a third straight year.
- </p>
- <p> The Braves -- last year's Cinderella, this year's proud
- prince -- are spending the World Series with the Toronto Blue
- Jays. Canada's best team shook off its decade-long notoriety as
- a talented squad with no guts by playing a six-game swan song
- for the once dynastic Oakland A's. Now the Jays and Braves do
- battle to decide whether the last song of the baseball year will
- be O Canada! or Georgia on My Mind.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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