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The 1974 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1974 season. The 71st edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion (and two-time defending World Series champion) Oakland Athletics and the National League (NL) champion Los Angeles Dodgers .
The 1974 Major League Baseball season: The Oakland Athletics won their third consecutive World Series, defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers four games to one.. Two notable personal milestones were achieved during the 1974 season.
The 1974 Los Angeles Dodgers won the National League West by four games over the Cincinnati Reds, then beat the Pittsburgh Pirates in the NLCS before losing to the Oakland Athletics in the World Series.
The Dodgers would return to the World Series in 1977 and 1978, but lost both to their old American League rival in the New York Yankees in six games. Both teams would meet again in the 1988 World Series , where the Dodgers returned the favor and upset the heavily favored Athletics in five games in a mirror-image of this World Series.
World Series – Oakland Athletics win 4 games to 1 over the Los Angeles Dodgers. 14 October – Shigeo Nagashima, a well known sports player from Japan, retires from the Yomiuri Giants of Tokyo, after a 17-year baseball player career.
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
October 17 – At the Oakland Coliseum, the Athletics win the World Series over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 5, clinching a third straight world championship and the eighth in their 74-year history. Reliever Rollie Fingers is named the Series MVP.
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball ... with a record of 74–40. The labor dispute lasted into the spring of 1995, ...