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The 1972 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1972 season. The 69th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League champion Oakland Athletics and the National League champion Cincinnati Reds. The Athletics won in seven games for their sixth World Series championship .
The most recent World Series champions are the Los Angeles Dodgers. The last team to repeat as champions were the Yankees in 2000 . Two World Series matchups (in 1982 and 2005 ) have no possibility of a rematch due to one of the contending teams switching to the opposing league – the Milwaukee Brewers moved to the NL in 1998, and the Houston ...
December 31 – Roberto Clemente, 38, Pittsburgh Pirates' right fielder since 1955 and a national hero of Puerto Rico; a lifetime .317 hitter, 12-time All-Star and winner of 12 Gold Gloves who was a four-time batting champion and the NL's 1966 MVP; collected his 3,000th regular-season hit September 30; two-time (1960, 1971) World Series ...
Yankees vs. Dodgers World Series history. New York and Los Angeles met in 11 of the World Series in a 41-year span from 1941-81 that started when the Dodgers were still in Brooklyn.
While the network had occasionally aired a limited number of Monday night games in past seasons, 1972 was the first year that NBC signed a contract for a regular slate of Monday Night Baseball. [28] The network continued to air the weekend Game of the Week, the All-Star Game, both League Championship Series, and the World Series.
Welcome to the Dodgers' golden era, with the franchise's big spending paying off in its greatest World Series championship run, Bill Plaschke writes.
The Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers have appeared in the World Series 22 times, while the New York/San Francisco Giants have appeared in the World Series 20 times. The Dodgers and Giants are tied with (8) World Series titles. When the two teams were based in New York, the Giants won five World Series championships, and the Dodgers one.
The Dodgers and New York Yankees will play Major League Baseball's starriest World Series in decades. This figures to be the first World Series featuring five MVPs: the Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani ...