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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 1972 Big League World Series took place from August 14–19 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Orlando, Florida defeated Inglewood, California in the championship game.
In 1972, the A's won their first league pennant since 1931 and faced the Cincinnati Reds in the World Series. The A's seven-game victory over the heavily favored Reds gave the team its first World Series Championship since 1930. Of the four wins against the Reds, three of them occurred in Cincinnati, and all four Series victories were by a ...
The 1977 World Series marked the first time that the participating teams' local announcers were not featured [22] as booth announcers on the network telecast of a World Series. 1977 was also the first year in which one announcer (in this case, ABC's Keith Jackson) provided all of the play-by-play for a World Series telecast. In previous years ...
2025 Mlb Free-agent Signing Tracker, Trades: Justin Verlander Agrees To 1-Year Deal With Giants Veale earned himself back-to-back All-Star nods in 1965 and 1966 during his Pirates career, which ...
The playoffs began on October 7, 1972, and concluded on October 22, 1972, with the Oakland Athletics defeating the Cincinnati Reds in seven games in the 1972 World Series. It was the Athletics' sixth title in franchise history and first since 1930 , when the team was still based in Philadelphia .
The A's won three consecutive World Series titles, including in 1973, with Reggie Jackson leading the charge. The Warriors were NBA champions in 1975, and the Raiders won the Super Bowl in 1977 ...
OAKLAND, Calif. — They began arriving at the Oakland Coliseum at 6 a.m. Thursday, and were pounding Jägermeister shots by 6:30. Nearly 11 hours later, with burning throats and eyes filled with ...