YOUR GREAT WORLD SERIES MEMORIES

10-18-03 | dfu

[flying Elvis]

Mine was horsetrading ticket stubs at the 95 series in Atlanta until I ended up behind home plate just in time to notice a Cleveland player lollygagging his way back to first base after each pitch. Seconds later, Javier Lopez noticed and picked him off. What a great game.

[Renegade]

8th grade, walking up the hill after school is dismissed and listening to my buddies transistor radio. Maz hits a homerun and the Pirates beat the yankees . He immediatly smashes the radio on the ground in anger. Been a Pirates fan ever since ..

[SamAdams76]

I'm a Red Sox fan so I really have nothing postive to say about this subject. In fact, I think I'm only one World Series away from a massive heart attack.

[doug from upland]

Great comment, Sam. Sorry about your team.

[cars for sale]

2001 against the DAMN YANKEES at the BOB (Bank One Ballpark) in Phoenix. I was there to see game seven
...........oh and the ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS won

[PPHSFL]

Mine was seeing the Yankees unstoppable closer Marinao (sp) Rivera blow the save in the 7th game of the 2001 World Series. Rivera had just been (and still is) so dominant in the postseason that I couldn't believe that he would lose the single biggest game he has pitched in to this point.

[Charles Henrickson]

You are cruel. I am from the north side of the city of Chicago. I am only 50 years old. I do not have any great World Series memories.

[ambrose]

[joesbucks]

I was a disc jockey for a small Ohio radio station in 1975. I worked the evening shift, so I often had my show interupted by a Cincinnati Reds game. That was the year of the Big Red Machine, and the year that they beat the Red Sox in the World Series. I engineered that game for our local station. There was going to be a rally in fountain Square in Cincy and I wanted to go so badly. Unfortunately, I had to get up and go to work the following morning at my real job. It was a fun year for the Reds.

[okie01]

1. Mazeroski's extra inning HR to end the 1960 series (the first walk-off HR in World Series history).

2. Fisk's extra inning HR to win Game 6 in 1975 (the greatest baseball game ever played).

3. Willie Mays' running, over-the-shoulder catch off Vic Wertz in deepest center field at the Polo Grounds in 1955. Even on film, it still looks impossible.

[doug from upland]

1981 World Series, Game 5 in Los Angeles -- I was there. Ron Guidry nurses a one-run lead until the bottom of the 7th. Pedro Guerrero and Steve Yeager hit back to back homers in almost the same spot of the left field pavillion. Dodgers win 2-1. Goose Gossage sent Ron Cey to the hospital after hitting in the head with a 100 mph fastball.

The Dodgers lost the first two in New York, won 3 straight by one run each in L.A., and smoked the Yanks back in NY in game 6. It was the big rookie year for Fernando Valenzuela. Unfortunately, millions and millions of illegal aliens followed Fernando to L.A.

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

I will get back to on that someday. Maybe

[Senator Pardek]

Not yet being 9 years old, I stayed up to watch the final game of the '76 Series. After the final out, I went to my bedroom and started crying.

My father, a Sox fans since the '30s, went against every inclination of a Sox fan (due to the heartbreak of the previous season), came into my bedroom, and said the Yanks were a good team, and that they would be right in the middle of everything the next year.

He was right ;)

[Servant of the 9]

It hasn't been possible to have a great World Series memory since they extended the season to overlap with Football Season.

So9

[doug from upland]

There is the greatest Dodger World Series moment during my lifetime. Gibson limps off the bench. He can hardly walk. He keeps fouling them off and nails the winner in the bottom of the 9th. Mrs. DFU had gone to bed early because she had to get up the next morning. When Gibson hit it, I was screaming and screaming. She jumped out of bed totally freaked out because she thought something terrible had just happened. It did. To the A's.

[baseballfanjm]

The 2001 Series. This was the first truly great series I ever watched. Games 4, 5, and 7, that beautiful Game 7, are undoubtedly among the best ever on their own.

[ambrose]

It was like from a scene right out of a movie... like the end of The Natural... Eckersley was THE best reliever in baseball at the time...

[baseballfanjm]

BTW, I love this series since I'm a Red Sox fan, so it was awesome watching Rivera finally blow a save.