World Series Time Machine: 1973
The big story of the 1973 season was the advent of the designated hitter in the American League, as MLB tried to hasten the game’s recovery from the pitching-dominated environment of the late 1960s. After both League Championship Series went to a do-or-die fifth game, the American League Champion Oakland Athletics (94-68) face off (again) […]
World Series Time Machine: 1980
An eight-day strike during Spring Training may have been an ominous portent of things soon to come, but the 1980 season also saw three tight divisional races, George Brett flirt with .400 into the schedule’s final two weeks and Nolan Ryan notch his 3000th career strikeout. As the season comes to its conclusion, the American […]
World Series Time Machine: 1990
Hang on tight for the era of Beanie Babies, Boy Bands and Britney – yup, the World Series Time Machine is headed back to the 1990s! 1990, to be exact – the final year to feature a team wearing a pullover uniform jersey – as the Bash Brothers and the American League Champion Oakland Athletics […]
World Series Time Machine: 1941
World Series Time Machine: 1941 It was a summer of legends – Joe DiMaggio hit safely in an unthinkable 56 consecutive games and Ted Williams hit .406 with a 6-for-8 performance on the season’s final afternoon. Two one-hundred win behemoths also powered their way to pennants, as the American League Champion New York Yankees (101-53) […]
World Series Time Machine: 1963
World Series Time Machine: 1963 It was a momentous year of change outside of baseball – the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the civil rights movement march on Washington in search of a “Dream” and Beatlemania sweeping the UK on its way across the world – but on the diamond, two old and familiar foes […]
World Series Time Machine: 2023
Somehow I seem to have come out of the back end of the Black Friday sales in possession of the ENTIRE run of World Series teams for Season Ticket Baseball. (Not sure how this happened . . . really, I’m not!) It seemed unfair to let this vast window on baseball history just sit idly […]
World Series Time Machine: 1956
Spin the dial, and where it lands nobody knows! (Until you see the preview graphic, of course.) We’re off to 1956 to see first-time MVP Mickey Mantle lead the Yankees against the aging Boys of Summer – does Brooklyn have what it takes to upend the boys from the Bronx?
