List of Major League Baseball Franchise Postseason Droughts - World Series in Which Both Teams Had Ended Pennant Droughts of 20-plus Seasons

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“The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

“Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not “studying a profession,” for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)

“They are preparing to begin again:
Problems, new pennant up the flagpole
In a predicated romance.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“A sober mind will walk alone,
Apart from nature, if need be,
And only its own seasons own;
For nature leaving its humanity.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)