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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 ...
The 1982 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1982 season. The 79th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the National League (NL) champion St. Louis Cardinals and the American League (AL) champion Milwaukee Brewers. The Cardinals won the series, four games to three.
The St. Louis Cardinals' 1982 season was the team's 101st season in St. Louis, Missouri and the 91st season in the National League.Making up for the previous season's near-miss, the Cardinals went 92–70 during the season and won their first-ever National League East title by three games over the Philadelphia Phillies.
Whitey Herzog, the Hall of Fame manager who guided the 1982 St. Louis Cardinals to a World Series title, has died. He was 92. “Whitey spent his last few days surrounded by his family," the ...
The world record for the marathon still belongs to the late Kelvin Kiptum, who became the first man to break the 2:01:00 mark when he blew away the field at the 2023 Chicago Marathon.
I think you’ll see the Cardinals running out groundballs.” [24] He won the 1982 World Series, and both won the National League pennant and appeared in the Series again in 1985 and 1987. Herzog's style of play, based on the strategy of attrition, was nicknamed "Whiteyball" [ 25 ] and concentrated on pitching , speed, and defense to win games ...
Porter won both the 1982 National League Championship Series Most Valuable Player Award and the 1982 World Series MVP Award. [1] [9] At the time, Porter was only the second player in baseball history to win both awards in a single postseason; Willie Stargell of the Pittsburgh Pirates won both awards in 1979.
The filmmakers assert that recession-battered Milwaukee in 1982 needed a winner, and the working-class ballclub needed a city to embrace it. ... Brewers won Game 5 of the 1982 World Series on Oct ...