David Glass, the owner of the Kansas City Royals, stood outside the team’s crazy clubhouse Sunday night, savoring the pandemonium and drying off from the champagne showers by players celebrating their World Series championship.
Like every player I spoke with after Game 5, Glass said that not a day had gone by this season when he had not thought about Game 7 of the 2014 World Series, which ended with the Royals’ potential tying run on third base against the San Francisco Giants. Redemption themes are a staple of sports narratives. Usually they are overblown clichés.