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Yankees are three champagne sprayings from winning it all
Photo credit: AP
My Tuesday column calling for an end to champagne celebrations in baseball caused an extremely minor sensation in the blogosphere, which inspired me to do further research.
As far as I can tell, the notion of spraying champagne to celebrate a sports victory began with Dan Gurney after the 1967 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Whether or not that is accurate. I do know that by 1969...
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