Found this gem on YouTube earlier. It was great to relive some old memories:
-1997, which may be the best World Series I’ve ever seen (and, as a long-suffering Cubs fan, I’m begrudgingly including 2016 in that list) with the Marlins outlasting the Indians.
-2001, and while I’m generally happy anytime the Yankees lose, this was an excellent Series.
I’d completely forgotten that Joe Carter was involved in the last play of both consecutive WS wins. Everyone remembers his homer, but I’d venture most people wouldn’t remember him playing first the previous year.
And whenever the Cardinals lose, I’m happy.
The video ends with the Cubs/Indians in 2016, which I place between the 1997 and 2001.
That was a bummer (a lot of Yankee haters wouldn’t have begrudged us a win that year) but it was cool to see Mariano throw the last pitch in four WS championships. Thanks Superdude.
The 1991 World Series between Atlanta and Minnesota is still the best WS I’ve ever seen. It’ll be very hard to top that one. Three games went into extra innings, including games 6 and 7, both of which were won with Minnesota walk-offs. Atlanta went down 2-0 but won 3 games in Atlanta. David Justice came within inches of hitting a possible game winning homer. Lonnie Smith made a terrible base-running error which might have cost the Braves the series. The last game featured a pitching duel that will likely never be repeated.
'91 was an amazing series, the only one ever (I believe) in which both games 6 and 7 were extra-inning affairs–the most exciting WS of my fifty years of fandom.
And speaking as a Cardinals fan myself, Game 6 of 2011 was something to behold–one of the best individual WS games of the same fifty years. Though yeah, I’m biased.
Looked like the text erroneously had the Yankees winning in '81–did I see that right?
It was fun to remember which final games I’d seen in real time and which I hadn’t. Perhaps surprisingly I think there were more hadn’ts than hads. Thanks for sharing.
One play that’s suprisingly been forgotten: Otis Nixon trying to bunt his way on in 1992–with a runner on third and two outs. (It’s at 4:45). What was he thinking?