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A century of Classic memories It all began 100 years ago with a gentlemen's challenge.
Two Major Leagues -- an established one called the "National" and a newcomer called the "American." The owners of Pittsburgh's NL club and Boston's AL club agreed to schedule a series of games to decide true superiority, and the team that won the most would be declared the best baseball team in the land. From Cy Young's first pitch for Boston to Troy Percival's last for Anaheim,
2010 World Series Tickets: Looking to go to the 2010 World Series? OrderWorldSeriesTickets.com has tickets to the 2010 World Series. We specialize in the first 10 rows behind first base dugout, first 10 rows behind third base dugout and the first 1o rows behind home plate. Long live the Fall Classic. Yes, it is so big and meaningful that it is known by more than one name, the way Babe Ruth needed "Sultan of Swat" and "Bambino" to fit his stature. The 100th Anniversary of the World Series is a time to celebrate, not only to end a 2003 chapter but also to remember and rediscover lost youth. This event has touched everyone in an individual way, a reassuring lighthouse for a century of explorers, a defining rite of passage from adolescence to adulthood. Brewers
Maybe you remember that new, explosive awareness you felt when you listened on your transistor radio at school as Tom Seaver, Tommie Agee and the Amazin' Mets shocked Brooks Robinson, Jim Palmer and the Orioles. Maybe you remember how you felt when Reggie Jackson officially became Mr. October on that three-homer
Carlton Fisk's 1975 Game 6 homer is forever fair in your mind, whether you stayed up late with an entire nation to watch it on TV or see the replay year after year. Maybe you are young enough at heart to remember when Yogi, The Mick, Willie and even Dem Bums turned the event into their own private, post-war borough bash. Perhaps that will be you, years from now, telling your
"I remember after we won in 1971, which was my first full season in the Majors," says Cubs coach Gene Clines, recalling the Pirates' Series victory over Baltimore. "I looked at Clemente and Stargell, our team leaders, and they were crying. I said, 'What are they crying about?' It wasn't until a while later that I absorbed what that meant. During that time I talked to Ernie Banks, Billy Williams and other Hall of Famers who hadn't won. They told me they would trade
A 'little break' from life When you flip back through those pages, one thing you can conclude is this: There definitely was room for two leagues in the grand old game. Thanks largely to 26 world championships produced by a certain pinstriped club from New York, the AL leads the NL, 58-40. There was no World
It mirrors the world, and the world mirrors it. We succeed and we fail. "Heroes" like Don Larsen, Bill Mazeroski and Joe Carter will emerge, as will "goats" like Mickey Owen, Bill Buckner and Lonnie Smith. We love to see them fill in the blanks, to see the emotion released by even-keeled professionals when they win (think of Wade Boggs riding horseback), to feel a winning city come together and to anticipate just how powerful it will feel when a Cub or a
For a century we have waited breathlessly for it to happen -- following it by telegraph, listening on the radio, watching on the first RCA televisions, viewing it in color, now even watching it internationally via MLB.TV. And for the truly fortunate, a ticket stub is a collectible for life. Blasts from the past
And that sound! You hear the ThunderStix smacking against themselves in Anaheim. You hear Sinatra's "New York, New York" after another World Series game is won at Yankee Stadium. You hear the thunderous home run struck by Ruth in St. Louis, first the crack of the bat and then the crash through your window at the business across the street from Sportsman's Park. World Series noise is delightfully deafening. Twins manager Ron Gardenhire heard it while he was coaching third base in the bottom of the 10th inning of Game 7 against Atlanta at the Metrodome. "Danny Gladden was standing at third base when Gene Larkin was up. It doesn't get any tenser. It doesn't get any more exciting and it doesn't get any louder. Unless you're sitting in the back of a jet with the engines in your ear, it can't get
Marlins coach Bill Robinson still can hear "all those Oriole fans" when he came to bat for Pittsburgh in Game 6 of the 1979 World Series. "I had a 2-and-2 count against Scott McGregor. Man on second base. I was hitting cleanup. They let out a yell that to this day was the loudest I've ever heard. I had to step out of the box to maintain my composure. On the next pitch, I hit it five feet straight up into the air, a pop to Rick Dempsey. But the next day, I had a base hit, and then Willie Stargell hit a dramatic homer." The World Series is the loud, exploding grand finale to a fireworks show, and it is time to throw a party and another pitch. Yogi Berra played in more games and collected more hits in this event than anyone, and his Yogi-ism is more than cliche now: "It ain't over till it's over." It ain't over till the final ball is tossed in the final game of the final event, and only then will the next chapter
Which Major League has the best team? Here we are, still deciding. Long live the Fall Classic. Mark Newman is a writer
for MLB.com. Correspondents Jason Beck, Adam McCalvy, Mark Sheldon and Paul C.
Smith contributed to this story, which was not subject to the approval of Major
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