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There is a wonderful story midway through Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game?, Jimmy Breslin’s 1963 book about the delightfully awful first season of the New York Mets. In the midst of a spectacular loss, with one pitcher after another being shellacke...

Baseball, the great Roger Angell once wrote, is “a sneaky quick-change artist”, and this year has brought the biggest switch in decades. They are calling the 2016 World Series the battle of the Lovable Losers, and I couldn’t be happier. I may not be ...