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One minor adjustment to your hosanna, if I may: what a wonderful day for baseball, regardless of the team for whom you root. People came all around the circuit to watch The Wiz play, even if (just so) he saved the cartwheeling backflips for the home fans. (Now, I wonder - anyone want to make odds on whether he cartwheel-backflips his way to the podium to give his induction speech?) Even people who otherwise despised the Cardinals gave that one a rest to watch The Wiz, even as people who otherwise despised the Dodgers or the Giants flocked to see Sandy Koufax and Willie Mays, or Yankee haters otherwise still came out to see Whitey, Mickey, and Reg-gie! Reg-gie!, among others. Like those men, Ozzie Smith was a gift to baseball.