NL East: Whatever Toboni wants

Washington Nationals

"The rack was in fashion / The plagues were my passion / Each day held a new joy in store."

– Mr. Applegate, Damn Yankees

 

More than 70 years ago, when barbiturates, baseball, and musicals were at their cultural zenith in the United States, Damn Yankees perfectly captured the zeitgeist by adapting the Faustian legend as a wish granted by the Devil to a downtrodden fan of the Washington Senators, transforming him into an unstoppable Übermensch capable of almost singlehandedly defeating the hated MLB superpower of the time, the New York Yankees. Such was the real-life Yankees’ dominance—they won five straight World Series from 1949-1953 and 9-of-16 through 1964—that it could inspire a Broadway hit about the...

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