Positive: Baseball resurrected in Detroit, a town where the sport had decayed over a dozen earlier seasons. A gift to the city and its disbelieving citizens. An electric baseball summer and autumn with renewed joy as the Tigers dwelled in first place for months and won a pennant. Baseball delirium in Detroit.
Negative: What the restored faithful will remember most through the winter and into next spring -- the Tigers' disassembling in the World Series. The Tigers resembling a team that lost 119 games one season.
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