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The Triumph of the West II
How the Angels’ heavenly win translated into a victory for Southern California and the Southern Hemisphere alike.
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Angel lovers, draped in red, wielding their thunder sticks and bouncing their rally monkeys, will send back to eastern eggheads the message that “bowling alone” is passé. We are still a nation of community, and advance. And victory.
Their Halos fought back amazingly against the Giants, a Caldwellian-era team brought to the West by Horace Stoneham, a great American ball club consigned by the expansion Angels to Jurassic status. Their motto: “Never say ‘die.’”
You may be thinking of Wellstone and Mondale. I’m thinking of Disney magic, another great American export. I’m thinking of how in these very precincts, in Anaheim backyards three and a half decades ago, we gave Ronald Reagan his political launch. (I’m also thinking of how, not two decades ago, in Washington, some of Reagan’s most fervent admirers pretended he didn’t come from California.)
Pardon me while I bask in another triumph in, and for, the West. Coming back from sure defeat as they did in Game Six, and again in Game Seven, the Angels were nothing less than Churchillian.
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