The World Series... More than Just Baseball

I am not a sports person. My lack of interest--and therefore knowledge--in sports is so bad that
when I moved to Chicago years ago for a job, a friend of mine had to explain the various teams to me. The memo went something like this:

The Bears are football. The Bulls are basketball.
The White Sox and the Cubs are baseball. And if you don’t root for the Cubs over the White Sox, you’re no friend of mine.

Well, I can honestly say that it may have taken me a few *cough*cough* years, but I was definit...