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Wiegand had come to add to the joviality of the proceedings outside the Indians’ Progressive Field (the name honours an insurance company, it has nothing to do with liberal politics). There’ll be another election in four years.” It’s an important election and this is just a game but this is not only once in a lifetime, it’s once in three lifetimes. And where in July party delegates walked behind high steel fences separating them from potential civil unrest and thousands of police, this week Clinton and Trump supporters rubbed shoulders, recalled learning the sport in corner parks and backyards, and went to the ballgame together.Ĭubs fan Joe Wiegand, 51, from Maniton, Colorado, mused: “Baseball is a wonderful distraction from the workaday world and the issues at hand. Where in July street vendors sold hats and T-shirts with slogans such as “Hillary for Prison” and “Life’s a bitch, don’t vote for one”, this week the merchandise says “Hard working town Cleveland”, “Land of champions”, “C*town don’t back down” and “I liked Cleveland before it was cool”.

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Where in July political hacks crowded bars and restaurants on nearby East 4th Street, this week sports fans erupted at every Indians run they saw on multiple TV screens. Where in July the strongman claimed that only he can fix the system, and delegates chanted “Lock her up!”, this week the Cleveland Cavaliers – led by the Hillary Clinton-endorsing superstar LeBron James – received their championship rings after ending the city’s 52-year sporting championship famine. Three months ago its basketball arena, cheek-by-jowl with the baseball park, hosted Trump’s coronation and dark vision at the Republican national convention. Photograph: John G Mabanglo/EPAĬleveland feels this more acutely than most. Indians fans gather outside the gates before game 1 of the World Series.

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While pro football is by far more popular, baseball is cultural bedrock, a social safety valve for a fractured nation.

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It survived the second world war when Franklin D Roosevelt declared: “I honestly feel that it would be best for the country to keep baseball going.” After reaching the World Series at last, Cubs manager Joe Maddon watched the Kevin Costner movie Field of Dreams and wept. It is the most storied and soulful of US sports.

The blowhard billionaire’s appeal to authoritarianism and cries of rigging have led some to fear an existential threat to the republic.īut baseball, as American as jazz, as regular as the seasons, goes on. Their contest has been extraordinary rancorous, including a tense debate in which Clinton castigated Trump over allegations of sexual assault and Trump threatened to jail his opponent. The Democratic and Republican nominees have historically high unpopularity ratings.

It’s like taking a shower: you’re all cleaned up.” It’s a breath of fresh air to have something as easy as playing a baseball game. Every day it gets nastier and uglier, not even talking about the issues. Thom Majka, a sales rep who keeps his Indians cap on through every game for good luck, said: “These fans couldn’t care less about the election.

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Here sports comes first, politics nowhere. It is oddly reassuring to discover that there is still a place in the US not transfixed by Clinton’s reckless emails or Trump’s 3am tweets. It is the resistible force against the movable object.Ĭleveland, for a few golden hours, also felt like something of an antidote to, or at least a refuge from, arguably the most divisive and poisonous presidential election campaign ever. The Cubs and Indians have the longest title droughts in baseball: 108 and 68 years without winning the World Series respectively. With flights in demand and prohibitively expensive, Brenner hired a car on Wednesday morning and drove for five and a half hours to be here he drove back on Thursday, exultant after the Cubs’ 5-1 victory squared the series.

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