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BP Daily: Hope springs eternal

By Steven Goldman
Baseball Prospectus

Monday, April 6, 2009

There have been a few teams in baseball history that have been called "miracle" teams: the 1914 Braves, a team that went from 69-82 to 94-59 and a World Series win over the Philadelphia A's; the Miracle of Coogan's Bluff, when Bobby Thomson's home run off of Ralph Branca put the 1951 New York Giants into the World Series; or in 1991, when both World Series teams, the last-to-first Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves, sometimes received the miracle appellation. In all of these cases, however, th ...

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