World Series Winners Deal With Change
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The championship banners have arrived, the pitcher who won all three clinching games in the postseason finally left and the Boston Red Sox face a season that will be far different than any since 1919.
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Dusty Baker is gone. Frank Robinson is finished. Cito Gaston won two World Series for the Toronto Blue Jays but hasn't seen the inside of a dugout in years. And Don Baylor suffered the same fate a few years ago that befalls losing managers everywhere &#151; he was fired.
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the Series, but it became moot when the Red Sox swept the St. Louis Cardinals. in four games for Boston&#39;s first world championship since 1918.
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Less than two years ago, the Houston Astros were celebrating their first National League pennant. On Monday, they were starting over.
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Major League Baseball has imposed a first set of rule changes since 1996 to address certain situations affecting play and issue guidelines governing official scoring decisions.
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As the World Series success of the Red Sox proved, a team coming off a drought-breaking win over its archrival can be difficult to stop.
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Momentum does not appear to play a big role in determining a World Series champion. For every example of a team that seemed to feed off its recent success, there is a counterexample.
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The outcome of Sundayâs first-half finale, a listless loss to the Astros, served to represent how things have been going lately for the Mets.
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So you&#39;re a casual baseball viewer who watches the game only when the playoffs roll around. Now, with the World Series about to begin Saturday, you realize you have no idea who&#39;s playing, how they got there and how they play this game.
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There was no Commissioner's Trophy the last time the Boston Red Sox won the World Series. No commissioner, in fact. So when the Red Sox won it all for the first time since 1918, they didn't think it would be right to stick their trophy on a shelf somewhere to gather dust.
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ST. LOUIS  - While the Boston Red Sox celebrated  the end of 86 years of frustration by winning the World Series  on Wednesday, the St. Louis Cardinals had to deal with some new  frustrations of their own.
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You often see thoroughbred horses do it. Baseball teams have jumped out ahead in the standings and stayed there all the way through to a World Series victory.
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A minute that used to recur like a comet, once 86 years or so and missed by generations of Red Sox fans, is now beginning to feel like a birthright. For the second time in four seasons, the Red Sox are World Series champions.
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The first Red Sox World Series victory in 86 years could change the identity of the city.
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Joe Torre's explanation for his team's recent turnaround -- looseness among the players.
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St Louis, Missouri - Boston Red Sox players and their devoted fans have spent decades wondering what their emotions would be after the seemingly cursed club won a World Series title for the first time since 1918.
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ANAHEIM - Funny how one Red Sox championship seems to have changed everything in baseball&#39;s world order. Suddenly the Yankees seem to be chasing their hated rivals in the offseason now too, after all those