Kirk Gibson’s 1988 World Series home run in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series...even if you hate the Dodgers, it was a real human interest story.
as an A’s fan, that ranks as one of my top 10 ten worse moments! but i understand why you rank it among the best...
This and the Miracle are definately 1,2.
That and the 1980 US win over the Soviet team are the best that come to mind to me
I remember that like it was yesterday. No baseball fan, but I lived in LA at the time, and what the heck, my roommate (rabid baseball fan) had the game on. I happened to walk through the room just a few seconds before Gibson made that hit. It was hopeless. The Dodgers had several hurt players, Gibson among them, they were down...Gibson might have had 2 strikes on him, and in that moment, he sort of threw the bat at the ball and the ball took off in a straight, non-parabolic flight path, impossibly over the wall. Remember Lasorda (and the whole team) running across the field like a Banshee? Nobody imagined that Lasorda could even run, much less that fast.
I was watching on TV and I just knew that Gibson was going to do it.