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History will say this is wrong. History always does. Tell yourself you've watched the greatest game in your life, maybe the greatest game in anyone's life, and history will smack you down. A better game will come along, or worse -- the thrill will fade. So consider yourself warned: The St. Louis Cardinals' 10-9 victory in Game 6 of the World Series wasn't the greatest game in baseball history, or in your own personal history.

Unless it was.

You think I'm going to tell you it wasn't? Hell no. I'm not saying a thing in the negative about this game, which was the most perfect World Series game since Don Larsen set down 27 Brooklyn Dodgers in 1956. That was a perfect game, true. But this was the perfect game.

It had everything -- good and bad and ugly -- and that was just in the first...

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