It became the stuff of legends, something that you wouldn’t believe if there wasn’t visual evidence. It’s like Babe Ruth calling his shot or Bo Jackson hitting a baseball off the crown in centerfield...

I type this note a few hours before the Kansas City Royals play the San Francisco Giants in Game 7 of the 2014 World Series. By the time you read this in the paper, the 2014 Midterm elections will have...