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A team playing to keep baseball alive in the Pacific Northwest  A manager who was literally managing for his job  A New York sports icon who for one week reminded everybody of the dominating player he had been a decade earlier  Chris Donnelly's replay of this entire season reminds readers that it was a time when grown men cried their eyes out after defeat, and others, just a few hundred feet away, poured beer and champagne over one another while 57,000 people in Seattle's Kingdome celebrated. Five games they were. Five games that reminded people, after the devastating players' strike in 1994, how great a game baseball is because comebacks are always possible, no matter how great the obstacles may seem.  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