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Joe Carter of the Toronto Blue Jays celebrates after hitting the World Series-clinching home run against the Philadelphia Phillies on Oct. 23, 1993.

A crowd of 52,195 people arrayed around a ballpark is not something you can see when you’re a part of it. It’s too many people to capture in your central and peripheral fields of vision, which are good for about 180 degrees laterally in a 12-year-old kid with near-perfect sight. To capture the scene in its 360-degree, quintuple-decked entirety, you must cast your eyes around to survey the place, stitching things together in a kind of panorama that is not reducible to a single-frame snapshot you can burn into your memory and carry with you forever.

At least not for me, I realize 32 years later, as I rifle through my mind for a singul

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