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THE WEEK, Page 24SOCIETYThe First Real World Series
A dramatic finish brings Atlanta and Toronto to an international
finale
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.
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.
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.