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ST. LOUIS - The streets were choked with Cardinals fans a full four hours before the first pitch - a sea of red, designed explicitly to drown out a case of the blues. The National League champs were down to their final nine outs of the 2011 season, but you wouldn't have known it by the mid-afternoon carnival that rocked Busch Stadium.
This is a city that prides itself on baseball history; the NL's version of the Yankees, is what the locals call it. No matter that the Rangers had won the critical battle in Arlington, taking 2-of-3 in their home park in Games 3-4-5 and were riding their own unique, brand of karma, entirely different from the Cardinals.'See the full content of this document
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Series Turned Into a Real Nail-Biter
Texas, after all, had never captured a World Series in the 51 seasons the franchise had been in existence, and needed 36 years just to win its first post-season game. As ESPN noted, only one major North American team, the Minnesota Vikings, have wait...
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