The World Series this year feels a little like Noah’s Ark, or John Woo’s Face Off—lots of stuff in twos. Like Theo and Terry. The Chicago Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein built the long suffering NL franchise into a winner, just like he did with the Boston Red Sox, which won the 2004 and 2007 World Series under Terry Francona, who will be in the opposing dugout Tuesday night filling out the lineup card for the Cleveland Indians.

There are two young star infielders, Indians shortstop Francisco Lindor and Cubs second baseman Javier Baez, who were both raised in Puerto Rico, played against each other in high school in Florida, and were selected with consecutive picks in the first round of the 2011 amateur draft.