Every Year, a Miracle

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On the streets of the Windy City, where baseball, like politics, is a blood sport, the Sox-'Stros series has divided the city anew. The North Side Cubbies have always laid claim to the soul of Chicago in a way the South Siders could never match. They play, badly, in the ivy-clad splendor of Wrigley Field and boast alumni like Ernie Banks and Billy Williams. The anonymous Sox play in a soul-challenged modern bowl on a site that was once downwind of the city's now vanished stockyards. One poll found that 36% of Cubs fans will cheer for the Astros. Sox fans might well retort: Fine, but who stinks now?