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Sloppiest: World Series confrontations: some of the worst played Fall Classic matchups evolved around poor fielding, hitting and pitching.
NO QUESTION, THE WORLD Series is baseball's showcase, the Fall Classic as effusive sportswriters termed it in its pristine youth after it began 101 years ago, and it often has lived up to that exalted designation.
Nonetheless, occasionally the annual confrontation between the champions of the National and American Leagues deteriorates into a mockery of how the game should be played.
Never did that seem more likely than in 1945 when the Chicago Cubs and Detroit Tigers competed with anemic rosters still drained of talent by the military during World War II, which had ended just weeks before the Series opened. Youngsters, oldsters, and physical rejects from ...
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