re: All-time World Series Classics

2 that comes to mind was 86 mets & sox, & 91 braves & twins

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ohnny Bench and Joe Morgan won 2 apiece, Carl Yastrzemski, Fred Lynn, Jim Rice, Pete Rose, George Foster.

Not sure about Carlton Fisk and Tony Perez.

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Neither were an MVP, but both in the HOF

Gets by Buckner

The 2011 world series was the most exciting I have watched.

The story of the 1960 world series is really pretty sensational. The Yankees were in the midst of their run of dominating the AL and MLB, and won their 10th pennant in 12 years. the Pirates meanwhile were creeping out of the cellar at the end of the 50's, after being really irrelevant for 30 years. Some of the teams they put on the field in the 50's were historically bad, w/ 1 good player (Ralph Kiner).

It's a bit of David v Goliath w/ an odd up and down series:
1 -- Pit 6, NYY 4 @ Pit
2 -- NYY 16, Pit 3 @ Pit
3 -- NYY 10, Pit 0 @ NY
4 -- Pit 3, NYY 2 @ NY
5 -- Pit 5, NYY 2 @ NY
6 -- NYY 12, Pit 0 @ Pit
7 -- Pit 10, NY 9 @ Pit

The Yankees outscored the Pirates pretty handily, w/ the Yankees winning big but the Pirates winning close.

Series hero Bill Mazeroski is a local boy made good here in Pittsburgh. He grew up poor in WV / Eastern Ohio about an hour outside of town. He was signed by the Pirates out of high school and still lives here in the area w/ trips down to spring training as a special instructor.

While Forbes Field is gone, giving way to a new building on Pitt's campus, part of the outfield wall remains. Home plate is still there too, near the bathrooms in the previously mentioned building. On the sidewalk and street outside, there's a brick in-lay marking the flight of the ball of Maz's HR w/ a plaque set in the sidewalk. When PNC Park was built, they took a section of the existing wall and made it the backdrop of a bronze statue of Maz's celebratory trip around the bases.

Another great image of the play, I think, is the shot of Pitt students on the top of the massive Cathedral of Learning, looking into Forbes Field.



ETA: the best player on that team was also a local guy: 1960 NL MVP Dick Groat from Swissvale. A guy who played in the NBA and MLB, and still serves as the color-man on Pitt basketball radio broadcasts.

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That whole 2001 series was awesome... the middle games were so tense in NY, Byun-Hun Kim got emotionally broken, then you had the blowout, and then the all time classic game 7 where the greatest closer ever blew the biggest save of his career

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The 2001 World Series had everything. A couple blowouts, three classic games in New York, two tying 2-run homers on back-to-back nights by the Yankees when they were down to their last out, Mr. November, Johnson/Schilling, Pettitte tipping pitches in one of the biggest starts of his career, and then a classic Game 7 with Rivera blowing the save after Alfonso Soriano was set to be the hero.

ETA: Going into the 9th inning of Game 7, the two teams had played 66 innings in the series, and the Yankees had led for 7 of them.

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For me, it has to be the 1975 Reds vs. Red Sox.

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Will also always be tops for me. The Big Red Machine at the height of their power with that devastating lineup and Luis Tiant battling them, Fisk's iconic home run...will always be the measuring stick for me.

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Gets by Buckner

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scully's voice never gets old , I could sit there all day & listen to him or summerall call a game

I feel like '85 had potential until the Game 7 dud. Two teams from the same state, individual star power, controversial call, and then a no-show from STL in the decider.

2001 is one of the ones that stand out.

1997 as well with the Livan Hernandez storyline. The indians were pretty loaded too.

2014 was good baseball too