TOP WORLD SERIES MOMENTS

[Baseball Guru]

This from the MLB.com site....
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In Game 7 of the 1946 World Series between the Cardinals and Red Sox, outfielder Enos Slaughter helped the Cardinals win their third World Series of the decade with his "Mad Dash" around the bases on a Harry Walker single. (AP Photo)

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Willie Mays' over-the-shoulder catch in Game 1 of the 1954 World Series is considered by many to be the best defensive play in baseball history. (AP Photo)

[Baseball Guru]

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PERFECTION!!!

Don Larsen hugs Yogi Berra after Larsen became the first pitcher to toss a perfect game in a World Series. (AP Photo)

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In 1960, Bill Mazeroski helped the Pirates upset the Yankees in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series by hitting a walk-off homer off Ralph Terry. (AP Photo)

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Sandy Koufax is the master!!

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In Game 1 of the 1968 World Series, Bob Gibson breaks Sandy Koufax's strikeout record by fanning 17 Tigers. (AP Photo)

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Willing the ball to stay fair!!!!

[Baseball Guru]

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With 3 swings of the bat, Reggie becomes Mr. October....

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In the bottom of the 10th inning of Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner helped the Mets complete their dramatic comeback by letting a Mookie Wilson groundball go through his leg. Ray Knight to scored the game-winning run, forcing a Game 7. (Rusty Kennedy/AP)

[Baseball Guru]

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In one of the greatest games in World Series history, Jack Morris pitched an 11-inning shutout as Gene Larkin's RBI single in the bottom of that inning helped the Twins beat the Braves and win their second World Series title in five years. (Rick Stewart/Allsport)

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Yanks look to have a commanding lead in the 2001 World Series thanks to Kim's meltdown...

[~*TiGeRs f@N*~]

Jack Morris! :clap2: :clap2: Tiger announcer ;) What a funny guy! Guess he was a hell of a pitcher as well huh? :D

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With two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning and the Yankees down, 2-0, in Game 5 of the 2001 World Series, Scott Brosius hit a dramatic two-run homer off Diamondbacks Byung-Hyun Kim. Three innings later, Alfonso Soriano drove in the winning run with a single to right field off Albie Lopez. (Bill Kostroun/AP)

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In the bottom of the ninth inning of the 2001 World Series, Luis Gonzalez propelled the Diamondbacks to their first world championship by hitting a game-winning single off Mariano Rivera. (David J. Phillip/AP)

[Rockin Robin]

Look at those muscles and veins on Gonzo's arms. :eek:





Didn't we just recently go through all of these?? :umm

[elfudge35]

what about Joe Carter?

[Baseball Guru]

Originally posted by Rockin Robin
Look at those muscles and veins on Gonzo's arms. :eek:





Didn't we just recently go through all of these?? :umm

We went over our greatest moments and maybe our greatest WS moments...

This is just a pictorial showing some of the great moments....

Sheesh:hmm:

Obviously this wasn't interesting or neat to others:hmm:


Anyways, elf, I didn't do this myself, it was from MLB.com and I posted most but not all of them....If you click on the above link you can see them all....
Thus the reason for no Joe Carter:)

[elfudge35]

okie dokie

[~*TiGeRs f@N*~]

I found it interesting James! I even posted, but it got lost in all pictures! :D

[PopTop]

I've been busy waiting for my pick in the all-time team thread over in the History Forum :hmm:

:D

Good stuff, love the black-&-white's from the older Series games.

What's funny is that in some of the Series you mentioned, and the plays that will all go down in Postseason Annals, there are also some other plays in those same Series that were defining or critical moments:

1968: This was a great Series, the last one under the old league format before the NL and AL were split into divisions ... But as good as Gibson was, Lolich was even better, winning 3 of Detroit's 4 games and pitching 3 complete games, the last two just 3 days apart! ... In Game 1 he hit the first homer of his career and pitched the Tigers to an 8-1 win ... In Game 2 he gets a base-running error from Lou Brock in a 5-3 win, and in Game 7 a triple by either Jim Northrup or Willie Horton (I never can remember which one hit it) ends a 0-0 stalemate in the 7th and propels Detroit to the title ... On that triple, Curt Flood slipped chasing the fly ball in CF, and he always maintained he could've caught it without that slip.

1975: Still my favorite Series, and only the 1991 WS between the Twins and Braves is close to it for excitement in my book ... Boston wins Game 1 by the score of 6-0, scores all 6 of their runs in the 7th at Fenway ... After that the scores are 3-2, 6-5 (10 inn), 5-4, 6-2, 7-6 (12 inn) and 4-3 in Game 7 with my man Joe Morgan driving in the game winner in the top of the 9th for Cincy ... Bernie Carbo's blast in the 8th in Game 6 was the key play for Boston, not Fisk's homer that gets the replays (though I do understand why since it ended the game).

1979: Another favorite of mine, Pittsburgh rallies from a 3-1 deficit to beat the O's in 7 games ... The Pirates are actually trailing 1-0 in the bottom of the 6th of Game 5, they're 12 outs from Baltimore winning the thing 4 games to 1 ... Jim Rooker starts for the Bucs, but of all people, Bert Blyleven (who started Game 2 I believe for Pitt) comes out of the pen and Pittsburgh's offense goes on a tear in the 6th-8th innings with 7 runs to win it 7-1 ... Blyleven shuts the O's down with 4 scoreless innings of relief ... A huge game in this WS, but so often overlooked because it's easier for most fans to think about Stargell's big homer in Game 7 ... Grant Jackson's and Kent Tekulve's relief (like 4+ shutout innings) is the key for the Bucs in Game 7.

1987: First of two 7-game WS that the Twins played in which the home team won each and every game ... Frank Viola is the Series MVP, but the real heroes for the Twins are Tim Laudner, Steve Lombardozzi and Jeff Reardon ... Both Lombardozzi and Laudner had key hits that broke wins open for Minnesota in the last 2 games.

1990: One of my favorite sweeps because the Reds weren't supposed to have an ice cube's chance in hell to beat the A's, Oakland was supposed to sweep Cincy! ... Jose Rijo with two big starts and wins in Games 1 & 4, he completely shut Oakland's big offense down ... And Chris Sabo banged a pair of homers in Game 3 that broke Oakland's back for all intents and purposes ... But the guy who ignited the Reds' offense all Series was little Billy Hatcher who batted .750 (9-for-12) in the 4 games and scored a half-dozen times.

1996: Atlanta takes the first two games in New York and appear to have their 2nd-straight WS title all wrapped up ... Two words for you: Jim Leyritz ... Fuhgetaboutit! ... I will never lose the vision and memory of his homer off Mark Wohlers in Game 4 ... Atlanta had a 6-0 lead in the game, Leyritz' blast ties it, and the Yanks even the Series in 10 innings, going on to take the whole shebang when they win Game 6 to give them 4 straight wins after the Braves had the two-zip lead ... The Yanks will go on to post 14 consecutive WS wins before the Mets beat them to stop that streak in Game 3 of the 2000 Subway Series.

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Agree with Pop Top :)

'75 and '91 were fantastic Series!

Last year's Series was pretty great also.

Just needed a little more dramatic Game 7.


ps- Nobody could look at Gonzo's arms and argue that this guy wasn't taking steroids!

[Durango53]

Originally posted by Baseball Guru
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In one of the greatest games in World Series history, Jack Morris pitched an 11-inning shutout as Gene Larkin's RBI single in the bottom of that inning helped the Twins beat the Braves and win their second World Series title in five years. (Rick Stewart/Allsport)
I think this is the one. A great great game. But when I saw this tread I thought of Joe Carter second. I think also he should be up there. The winning HR in the WS is what every kid playing baseball dreams about!!!

[renuszm]

Where's Joe Carter?

[Fragmentsofme]

Originally posted by Baseball Guru
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In one of the greatest games in World Series history, Jack Morris pitched an 11-inning shutout as Gene Larkin's RBI single in the bottom of that inning helped the Twins beat the Braves and win their second World Series title in five years. (Rick Stewart/Allsport)

I still have nightmares about that.