Several new titles consider World Series past. Two — by Joe Posnanski and Mark Frost — deal with the 1975 Red Sox-Reds contest, which was highlighted by Carlton Fisk’s game-winner in the sixth game, the closest to that point Boston had come to winning a title since 1918. The next most recent is Perfect, by […]
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Cubs fans sure hope so. It’s been 100 years since they last one the Series, and, in the words of the late Steve Goodman’s “A Dying Cubs Fans Last Request” “…the year the Cubs last won a national league pennant Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan” So it’s with great anticipation that […]
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