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) against the National League Champion New York Mets (82-79), and the grip that hurlers held on the game wasn’t going to be loosened quite so easily . . .
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