Umm just one more thing popups recommended looky here in 05 trivia looky here in 04 trivia looky here in 03 trivia looky here in 02 trivia looky here in 01 trivia looky here in 00 triv oh Miscellanea Smart NYer looky here in 99 trivia looky here in 98 trivia looky here in 97 trivia looky here in 96 trivia looky here in 95 trivia looky here in 94 triv oops no Series that year looky here in 93 trivia looky here in 92 trivia looky here in 91 trivia looky here in 90 trivia I m tired of piping these links so if you don t mind 1989 World Series Trivia 1988 World Series Trivia 1987 World Series Trivia 1986 World Series Trivia 1985 World Series Trivia 1984 World Series Trivia 1983 World Series Trivia 1982 World Series Trivia 1981 World Series Trivia 1980 World Series Trivia Nuff said Or perhaps not Here s a tidbit from that last WS Trivia section linked above According to Tug McGraw one of the police horses who lined up in the field during the 9th inning of Game 6 was not stadium trained 8th item down the list I don t think you can top or is it bottom that for trivia There s a simple reason that over a quarter of a century of trivia sections and probably more have piled up in these World Series articles Writing well is hard work It s just too easy to simply drop minutiae onto these pages and file them under Trivia and let somebody else do the hard work of integrating them later Part of my motivation for dredging up all those links above is that I ve noticed an inconsistency of style and layout and some confusing or redundant info in all the WS articles going back to 1903 It s like the same car built by different contractors at different times with different materials I find it a bit troubling because it s a sign of limited effort limited means for anybody to have developed a plan for what could be a real highlight of WP can you say Fall Classic Portal I found it fairly easy to take the 06 trivia about La Russa and Leyland and create a separate section under the Background section and it seems to have held up since Friday night But it took some time to sift through it and move the info Cutting to the chase All this WS Trivia is classifiable The better it s organized the less it will seem like trivia so if a handful of labels could be cooked up for categories of info formerly known as trivia the overall style of these articles will seem to read better That ought to settle the trivia issue Postscript For instance a 4 1 WS where one contender splits on the road and then comes home and sweeps to win 3 more and clinch is fairly rare from what I ve looked up so far What the Cards have done against Detroit in 2006 matches what NY NL accomplished in 1969 except the Mets dropped Game 1 instead of 2 to Baltimore I m still working my way thru past Fall Classics to see when else this happened so I can add this info to the 06 article in an appropriate place but not as an addition to the dreaded Trivia section A heading that might be appropriate for this info each and every year Long series short series 4 or 5 games would classified as a short series 6 or 7 classified as long Easy to spot trends in this area and develop copy to fill a section like this Was a short or long series predicted each year by who was a trend broken were the prognosticators wrong did a noted BB writer point this out so it doesn t smack of the dreaded Original Research Now really nuff said talk