Nearly every baseball fan knows whether he likes it or not that one of the teams in the World Series is al most surely going to be the St. Louis Cardinals, who were rolling merrily along at a .630 clip last week and leading the National League by 11½ games. The other team? That, to understate the case, is a matter of argument. In the first four months of the American League season, no fewer than eight teams either held or shared the lead.
Last week there was a ninth: the Minne sota Twins. Not that the Twins weren't...
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