Frequently baseball's playoffs upstage the World Series, but for once the ( pressure is on the league tournaments to live up to the regular season. Maybe it is serendipitous, after all, that greed is stretching things this week from best-of-five to best-of-seven. Everyone, certainly everyone in New York City, needs some time to exhale.
During all of the bellowing this summer, back and forth across the country, regarding "subway" and "freeway" World Series, Missourians were characteristically muted concerning the "show me" Series that is now distinctly possible. "It's harvest time," pronounced Dan Quisenberry, an ironic relief pitcher for Kansas City, by...
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