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The 1975 American League Championship Series was a semifinal matchup in Major League Baseball's 1975 postseason between the Boston Red Sox and the three-time defending World Series champion Oakland Athletics for the right to advance to the World Series.
The 1975 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 1975 season. The winners of each division advance to the postseason and face each other in a League Championship Series to determine the pennant winners that face each other in the World Series.
The 1975 Oakland Athletics season was the 75th season for the Oakland Athletics franchise, all as members of the American League, and their 8th season in Oakland. Entering the season as the three-time defending World Series champions, the Athletics won their fifth consecutive American League West title with a record of 98 wins and 64 losses.
Won ALCS 3–2 Won World Series 4–3 † Reggie Jackson (MVP, WS MVP) 1974: MLB † AL * West ^ 1st 90 72 .556 — Won ALCS 3–1 Won World Series 4–1 † Jim "Catfish" Hunter Rollie Fingers 1975: MLB AL West ^ 1st 98 64 .605 — Lost ALCS 3–0 1976: MLB AL West 2nd 87 74 .540 2½ 1977: MLB AL West 7th 63 98
Conigliaro, 30, returns to the hometown team where he starred during the 1960s until an August 18, 1967 beanball compromised his vision, sidelined him for the full 1968 season, and drove his early retirement from the California Angels in July of 1971. Conigliaro is trying to make a comeback for the 1975 Red Sox as their designated hitter.
The 1975 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1975 season. The 72nd edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion Boston Red Sox and the National League (NL) champion Cincinnati Reds. The Reds won the series, four games to three.
Long before Boston Red Sox second baseman Pokey Reese threw to first base off a grounder by New York Yankees pinch hitter Ruben Sierra in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 7 in the 2004 ...
This was the last season that NBC was the exclusive national TV broadcaster of MLB, airing the weekend Game of the Week, Monday Night Baseball, the All-Star Game, both League Championship Series, and the World Series. Beginning in 1976, MLB would split the TV rights between NBC and ABC.