May 2018, Vo. 245, No. 5
Editor's Notebook
Jon Peters: When Life Grabs You by the Baseballs
Every day this conversation takes place at my house. Me: “Alexa, who are the World Series Champs?” Alexa: “The 2017 World Series winner is Houston Astros.” Me: “Damn right!” Forgive me for my love of baseball. My birth city was without a championship since its inception, until last season. That’s 56 years if you’re counting. Ironically it’s another Texas team, the Rangers, that now holds the longest streak of never winning a World Series, 57 years and counting. People get excited about all kinds of streaks and statistics. Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak still gets discussed routinely. The longest individual win streak for a MLB pitcher belongs to New York Giants Carl Hubbell, who w

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