SAN FRANCISCO – Leo Durocher had lived through baseball long enough to know what the moment wanted: Sportsmanship, personal acknowledgment of a job well done by a competitor. Jackie Robinson had shown him the way. Durocher had led the New York Giants in 1951 when Bobby Thomson’s pennant-winning homer smashed the Brooklyn Dodgers. Even after …

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