It's Not Just about Baseball - It's about Attitude
Douglas S. Looney, Senior sports columnist of The Christian Science Monitor, The Christian Science Monitor
There are people who think the current battles to determine the American League and National League champs - the prize being they get to compete in the World Series - are about baseball. Poor dears.
Of course it's not about baseball. It's about attitudes which, above all else, will determine the victors, since each club has plenty of talent to win. What's delicious about the four teams still playing is that each brings a decidedly different attitude to the fray. An attitude check of the participants:
The Boston Red Sox vs. the New York Yankees
*Boston is us. The Red Sox try like the dickens, but things always seem to go wrong. All of us understand. We …
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Article title: It's Not Just about Baseball - It's about Attitude.
Contributors: Douglas S. Looney, Senior sports columnist of The Christian Science Monitor - Author.
Newspaper title: The Christian Science Monitor.
Publication date: October 15, 1999.
Page number: 12.
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