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In 1960 (https://www.baseball-almanac.com/ws/yr1960ws.shtml), the New York Yankees and Pittsburgh Pirates squared off in the 57th World Serie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_World_Series)s. The Yanks thoroughly dominated the affair (https://home.adelphi.edu/~al19624/1960s.html), unleashing an onslaught the likes of which we've never seen before or since. New York scored a whopping 28 more runs in the series (https://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/1960_WS.shtml) than the Buccos, easily the Fall Classic's best run differential ever seen through its first 120 iterations-and-counting.
They had a legend -- Mickey Mantle -- come through with one of the greatest individual performances ever seen in a World Series. They had a, uh, non-legend -- Bobby Richardson -- also come from out of absolutely nowhere to produce one of the greatest individual performances ever seen in a World Series. It was an embarrassment of riches.
And yet. Somehow, someway, against all odds, those Yankees managed to band together and pull off the Herculean task of … not even winning the series (https://www.mlb.com/postseason/history/1960). Uhh, what? Welcome to Scattered.
In 1960 (https://www.baseball-almanac.com/ws/yr1960ws.shtml), the New York Yankees and Pittsburgh Pirates squared off in the 57th World Serie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_World_Series)s. The Yanks thoroughly dominated the affair (https://home.adelphi.edu/~al19624/1960s.html), unleashing an onslaught the likes of which we've never seen before or since. New York scored a whopping 28 more runs in the series (https://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/1960_WS.shtml) than the Buccos, easily the Fall Classic's best run differential ever seen through its first 120 iterations-and-counting.
They had a legend -- Mickey Mantle -- come through with one of the greatest individual performances ever seen in a World Series. They had a, uh, non-legend -- Bobby Richardson -- also come from out of absolutely nowhere to produce one of the greatest individual performances ever seen in a World Series. It was an embarrassment of riches.
And yet. Somehow, someway, against all odds, those Yankees managed to band together and pull off the Herculean task of … not even winning the series (https://www.mlb.com/postseason/history/1960). Uhh, what? Welcome to Scattered.