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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 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.
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]
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, ...
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.
November 3, 1973: Horacio Piña was traded by the Athletics to the Chicago Cubs for Bob Locker. [4]December 12, 1973: Rico Carty was released by the Athletics. [5]February 22, 1974: Reggie Jackson won an arbitration case for a $135,000 salary for the season, nearly doubling his previous year's $70,000.
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 ...