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A big taste of old style: who are the suckers now? The White Sox and Astros prove teams don't need Moneyball or power to be successful.(MLB WORLD SERIES)

The Sporting News

| November 04, 2005 | Deveney, Sean | COPYRIGHT 2005 Sporting News Publishing Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Consider this season--99 wins, a wire-to-wire American League Central Division championship and a 7-1 record in the first two playoff rounds--a way for White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen to pay tribute to that oft-overlooked chapter of baseball's how-to book: the bunt. Guillen remembers bunting. When you've finagled your way into 1,993 major league games despite a career batting average of .264 and just 28 home runs, you'd better have bunting on the brain.

"The reason why I played 16 years in baseball is because I can bunt," Guillen said just before the start of the World Series in Chicago last week. "I grew up watching the game in the '70s and '80s, and people were ...

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