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A history of World Series firsts By Mark Newman / MLB.com From Cy Young's first pitch in 1903 to the first national TV broadcast in 1951 to last year's first meeting between two Wild Card teams, the World Series has set trends and broken ground in many new ways over a century. Here is a look at some of the more notable firsts in World Series history: Game: It started with Cy Young, the winningest pitcher in Major League history, on the hill against Ginger Beaumont. Young's Boston Pilgrims beat the Pittsburgh Pirates in that first 1903 showdown between the American and National leagues, 5 games to 3. Pittsburgh's Jimmy Sebring had the first home run and RBI, and teammate Fred Clarke had the first hit and run. Pittsburgh's Honus Wagner stole the first base, Boston's Hobe Ferris committed the first error and
2009 World Series Tickets: Looking to go to the 2009 World Series? OrderWorldSeriesTickets.com has tickets to the 2009 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. Triple play: 1920, and it was unassisted by Bill Wambsganss of Cleveland. In the fifth inning of Game 5, the Cleveland second baseman caught a line drive, stepping on second base to put out a runner before he returned, and tagged a runner who had broken for second. Wambsganss' teammate, Elmer Smith, added the first World Series grand slam off Brooklyn's Burleigh Grimes. Radio broadcast: 1921, when two New York baseball teams met in the Fall Classic for the first time. The Giants beat the Yankees, five games to three. Because the teams shared the same ballpark, the Polo Grounds in upper Manhattan, no travel was required and this was not technically a "subway series." That term was coined two years later when these teams played their third consecutive World Series and the Yankees had moved to their own stadium in
It is interesting to see now what The Sporting News, then the "Bible of Baseball", had to write about the new medium: "This new radio craze is already crimping attendance at anything where the feast is for the ear rather than the eye, and seriously affecting spectacular entertainment because the family stays home to hear the concert or lecture or story telling in preference to going out to see the things pictured on the screen. "And next we will have the whole works shot to pieces because instead of mere sound, the radio will be producing in every home that has a $10 equipment the picture of the play. Yep, that is the possibility. When Ruth hits a homer or Sisler slides into the plate, a film will catch him in the act, wireless will carry it a thousand miles broadcast and the family sitting in the darkened
"Then what will become of baseball? Nobody will actually see Ruth and Sisler in action except the bored operators of the wireless picture producing machine who have to be out as part of that job. The magnates won't have to worry about taking care of their crowds; their concrete grand stands will be torn down and the business of baseball will be collecting a fee for supplying the action that is reproduced on the parlor wall instead of counting the gate." Three-homer game: 1926, by -- who else? -- Babe Ruth. He did it again two years later, and Reggie Jackson in 1977 became the only other person to pull off the hat trick. Local telecast: 1947, the second World Series between the Dodgers and Yankees. A record World Series crowd of 73,365 attended the game, and many more New Yorkers watched this Subway Series on TV. The Yankees won the opener and they won a thrilling series in seven, as Yogi Berra hit the first World Series
National TV broadcast: 1951, when the Yankees beat the Giants in six. There were 1.5 million TV sets around the country that year -- a tenfold jump over the previous year. Those fortunate enough to have one saw vintage Yankees. There would be no Shot Heard 'Round The World in these coast-to-coast broadcasts by Bobby Thomson, and Willie Mays was held to just four hits in the series. Color TV broadcast: 1955, when Johnny Podres led the Brooklyn Dodgers to a breakthrough World Series victory against the Yankees. Every month seemed to be a new breakthrough for "colorcasts" in those days. According to a press release entitled: "RCA-NBC Firsts in Color Television, a Chronological List of Significant Firsts by the Radio Corporation of America and the National Broadcasting Company in Color Television", 65 million viewers had tuned in to
On Sept. 28, the World Series joined the excitement. It wasn't quite what you see today, though. Jay Maeder wrote recently in the New York Daily News: "Fledgling color TV did not always behave. . . . As Mel Allen and Vin Scully did the play-by-play, 33 million viewers across the U.S. and Canada raptly beheld red and blue gloves and emerald green umpires. It was milestone stuff all the same. In the new TV age, the World Series was breaking out as very big business." MVP: Whatever the hue in that 1955 series, Brooklyn's Johnny Podres pitched two complete-game victories and looked good enough to become the first
West Coast game: 1959. The Dodgers left Brooklyn for Los Angeles after the 1957 season, and when the White Sox visited them for the last World Series of the decade, the Coliseum was filled with more than 90,000 fans -- about twice as many fans as Ebbets Field typically crammed into its confines. Series-ending home run: 1960, by Pittsburgh's Bill Mazeroski. It was the first time a World Series had ended on a home run, as "Maz" provided the heroics in Game 7 at Forbes Field to overcome a 55-27 overall scoring advantage by theYanks. Night game: 1971, Baltimore at Pittsburgh. It was Game 4, and the decision to play that game under the lights was largely influenced by Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, who had pitched the idea to NBC. Kuhn felt that baseball could attract a larger audience by featuring a weeknight telecast, as
Game under roof: 1987, and the Minnesota Twins made the most of it. Playing at the Metrodome, the Twins became the first team to win the World Series by winning four games at home. Pretty odd, considering that they had the lowest regular-season home winning percentage (.525) of any World Series champion. The Twins started a trend. There have been four subsequent World Series played at least partly under a roof, and it included three consecutive autumns: 1991 (Minnesota), 1992-93 (Toronto's SkyDome) and 2001 (Arizona's Bank One Ballpark). Earthquake: 1989, postponing Game 2 of the Bay Bridge Series between San Francisco and eventual champion Oakland. Canadian champion: 1992-93. The Toronto Blue Jays brought the World Series championship outside of the U.S. for the first time, and they did it
November game: Derek Jeter became the first Mr. November at 12:04 a.m. ET on Nov. 1, 2001, when he homered with two out in the bottom of the 10th to lead the Yankees past eventual champion Arizona and tie the series at 2-2. It was the first time any World Series game had been played in November. All-Wild Card World Series: The Anaheim Angels beat the San Francisco Giants in a seven-game thriller, and it was the first world championship for the Angels in more than four decades of existence. Mark Newman is a writer
for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball
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